The Brutalist Report - gaming
- Shadowstone, the new game from Secret Door and Dreamhaven, kicks off a surprise public playtest at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase [1d]
- Blizzard vet Rob Pardo closed this year's GDC keynote by urging executives to cool it with the layoffs: 'The game team is more valuable than the game itself' [1d]
- Path of Exile's new Mirage league might be the best chance you'll ever get at obtaining the rarest item in the game [1d]
- Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented the Quicksort algorithm for a sixpence bet, dies at the age of 92 [1d]
- Marathon got deadlier overnight, and some think yesterday's sound change is the culprit [1d]
- Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan's favorite hero is Reinhardt, and reveals his charge was inspired by Left 4 Dead 2: 'It's what separates a great Rein from a sh*tty one' [2d]
- Dave the Diver DLC adds a little Stardew Valley time management and relationship building to the formula when In the Jungle releases in June [2d]
- Vin Diesel's character in Ark 2 was originally written as a nerd: 'Yeah, that ain't gonna work' [2d]
- Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster, a hi-def update of the 2012 Silicon Studio classic, shadow-drops on Steam [2d]
- Company that makes generative AI-powered NPCs reports that 95% of players enjoy their generative AI-powered NPCs [2d]
- Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft [2d]
- WoW's questing system was inspired by a playtest that didn't work out as planned, because the testers didn't play MMOs and had no idea what they were supposed to do: 'I ran out of quests right away!' [2d]
- Subnautica 2 developer video reveals a 'brand new' base building system with some pretty fabulous windows [2d]
- Playing World of Warcraft with a controller might become my preferred playstyle thanks to this excellent gamepad-friendly addon that's letting me enjoy Azeroth from my couch [2d]
- The worst part of Resident Evil Requiem is its final choice, which is an annoying throwback to Resident Evil 7's ultimatum [2d]
- PNY GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB OC review [2d]
- One Australian gamer was denied a replacement for DRAM kit bought just two years prior and was only offered a refund of original price, four times less than its cost today [2d]
- Europe's game rating agency takes aim at in-app purchases, loot boxes, and 'unrestricted communication' with new 'interactive risk categories' [2d]
- Arc Raiders received 'substantial negative PvP sentiment' during testing, causing the devs to second-guess its big pivot before realising it was really frustration with weapons and matchmaking [2d]
- ZA/UM doesn't want 'to invite too many comparisons' to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—'We didn't feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits' [2d]
- PC games revenue will outgrow consoles by 2028, analyst predicts [2d]
- New benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance [2d]
- No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game [2d]
- 'There is no scenario where memory prices correct in the second half' of 2027, according to new market research [2d]
- This horror game where you're a conscious nuclear missile boasts 'one handed mouse only controls', leaving me with assumptions that proved incorrect when I had to saw my own limbs off [2d]
- Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle [2d]
- Even in the depths of the RAMpocalypse, you can still get a nice system upgrade for your old gaming PC, thanks to this $500 Newegg bundle [2d]
- Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war' [2d]
- Game dev union members marched at GDC to propose a 'Game Workers' Bill of Rights' [2d]
- Asus thinks 'high-end brand value and high-end product mix' will help it weather the memory crisis alongside AI [2d]
- Ever complained about Overwatch matchmaking? There's a chance Jeff Kaplan checked your account and all he has to say is: 'There's gotta be winners and there's gotta be losers' [2d]
- Garry's Mod creator says programmers over-relying on AI is like using too much porn: 'You lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination' [2d]
- A terrible quest in vanilla WoW 'holds a really special place in my heart', says Jeff Kaplan, but was also 'the hubris of a junior game designer who thinks he's clever but is actually a dipsh*t' [2d]
- One of Jeff Kaplan's 'regrets about Overwatch' was making it so team-orientated: 'I would downplay the team factor and try to put more focus on individual contribution' [2d]
- Texture pop-in may be about to pop-out of existence thanks to even faster asset streaming ushered in by new Zstandard support in DirectStorage [2d]
- Modder behind cancelled Star Wars game's unofficial revival has 'no concern at all' about Disney reprisal: 'We pose little to no threat to any upcoming or ongoing titles' [2d]
- AMD announces next-gen 'FSR Diamond' AI-enhanced upscaling for future Xbox consoles, but the question is whether it's coming to PC and which GPUs will support it [2d]
- PlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]' [2d]
- Microsoft is paving more PC roads to Project Helix, releasing a Windows 11 Xbox Mode in April for laptops and desktops [2d]
- WoW's Horde/Alliance split was 'really controversial', says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game's launch [2d]
- Mewgenics will have 'at least two' DLCs, and the 'small' one is almost a third as big as the base game [2d]
- Dawn of War 4 playtesters want the combat to take longer because of how much they enjoy watching it [2d]
- Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision-Blizzard: 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in may career' [2d]
- How well do you know Baldur's Gate 3's second act? You may need an actual brainworm to score a perfect 20/20 on our latest quiz [2d]
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