The Brutalist Report - gaming
- Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed [1d]
- PlayerUnknown's new survival game makes building a simple campfire feel like a real accomplishment, and that's something a lot of survival games are lacking [1d]
- Elon Musk and Sam Altman deploy each other's chatbots as proxies in pathetic slapfight [1d]
- Take-Two boss is really very confident that Grand Theft Auto 6 won't be delayed again: 'My level of conviction is very, very high' [1d]
- Arkane employees demand Microsoft sever ties with Israeli military: 'We don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza' [2d]
- Battlefield 6 lead producer says 'large maps exist,' confirming the full game will offer bigger battles than the beta's cramped, chaotic firefights [2d]
- Krafton fires back at Unknown Worlds lawsuit, says Subnautica 2 was at risk of causing 'irreversible harm to the entire franchise' like Kerbal Space Program 2 [2d]
- Remedy is 'unsatisfied' by poor sales of FBC: Firebreak and a tiny PC playerbase, but says 'despite the rocky launch, we believe we have a solid game to build on' [2d]
- Phoenix Labs website goes offline as Fae Farm announces the looming end of online play on Steam, and disappears entirely from Epic [2d]
- If you felt way too killable in the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend, you might not have imagined it: BF6 devs are investigating reports of instakill 'super bullets' [2d]
- You might not have heard of Biwin but it's made the best value PCIe 4.0 SSD we've tested in some time [2d]
- 'Eager to move on from failure': Ex-producer Mark Darrah thinks BioWare suffered spinning plates for EA, starving itself for talent as it ate itself alive: 'We weren't getting the people' [2d]
- Samsung's new Micro RGB tech is confusingly still an LCD panel with a backlight, but it could have the most precise local dimming yet [2d]
- Marvel Rivals' bloated DPS roster won't be solved 'overnight', creative director says: 'The heroes we are currently deciding on are for a release slot next year' [2d]
- Still using WinRAR? It might be time for an update, as a zero-day vulnerability is being 'exploited in the wild in the guise of job application documents' [2d]
- How to unlock the Ultimate Badge in Peak [2d]
- Mafia: The Old Country review [2d]
- Former Google exec says AI's going to lead to a 'short-term dystopia' because the idea it will create new jobs for the ones it's replacing is '100% crap' [2d]
- The first RX 9060 benchmarks show the non-XT AMD GPU going toe to toe with the RTX 5060 [2d]
- How to unlock the Astronomy Badge in Peak [2d]
- I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops [2d]
- League of Legends is getting its first major control scheme change in 16 years: the option to use WASD to 'get new players to the fun parts of League faster and with less friction' [2d]
- OpenAI's performance charts in the GPT-5 launch video are such a mess you have to think GPT-5 itself probably made them, and the company's attempted fixes raise even more questions [2d]
- Former BioWare exec Mark Darrah says the team working on the new Mass Effect game should 'scapegoat Veilguard as much as they need to to get what they need' [2d]
- Overwatch 2 Wuyang: All the key details about the new hero [2d]
- Overwatch 2 Season 18 release date, mythic skin, and roadmap so far [2d]
- How to unlock the Needlepoint Badge in Peak [2d]
- How to unlock the Megaentomology Badge in Peak [2d]
- Helldivers 2's newest trailer basically confirms a Halo 3: ODST crossover with a melancholy saxophone [2d]
- RTX 5090 prices are so ludicrous that Alienware gaming PCs actually feel, dare I say, reasonable [2d]
- Trump says Nvidia's 'super-duper advanced' Blackwell AI chips might be part of future China deals as long as they're 'somewhat enhanced, in a negative way' [2d]
- 'I don't know what it means to have a Manhattan Project for AI': Nuclear war experts remind us of the frightening risks of our artificial intelligence controlling our nukes [2d]
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says some folk are using AI in 'self-destructive ways' so it's on us as a society to work out how 'to make it a big net positive' [2d]
- Hmm, Fortnite's new season looks familiar, says Arrowhead: 'It's giving we have Helldivers at home' [2d]
- Dragon Age wasn't meant to be a series, says former BioWare executive producer, and that's why Origins was full of storylines that 'had to be abandoned' [2d]
- Arctic Xtender PC case review [2d]
- Ex-Intel CEO calls current Intel CEO's plans for chip factory investment a 'joke' and wants Nvidia, Apple and Google to stump up the cash to save the fabs [2d]
- This undetectable AI-powered aimbot physically moves the mouse pad to cheat in Valorant, an invention so unholy I demand it be cast down to the depths of hell where it belongs [2d]
- Marvel Rivals reminds players it doesn't use 'EOMM', matchmaking designed to make you feel better about your terrible W/L ratio [2d]
- Roblox's top experience Grow a Garden is shifting into a 'new era' and promises deeper farming after a series of disappointing updates: 'I hope the community can see this change as a positive attempt to keep the game fresh and enjoyable for everyone' [2d]
- After saying he should resign 'immediately', President Trump changes his mind about Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and calls his 'success and rise' an 'amazing story', looks forward to fixes for Intel's foundry [2d]
- My best friend recently taught me an important lesson about AI pessimism: Don't remain silent and accept no substitutes [2d]
- After all these years, Heretic plays better than it ever has—and thanks to Nightdive, even Hexen sucks far less [2d]
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 12 (#1515) [2d]
- In 15 years of interviewing AAA game developers, I think this is the first time one's straight up told me 'Many people make games for money, but we make money for games' [2d]
- AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the moment it goes off-script: 'Grok doesn't actually know why it was suspended' [2d]
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