The Brutalist Report - gaming
- How to use the Shark Fin in Path of Exile 2 [26m]
- Nvidia says AI models lack 'common sense' so it's drafting in good old fashioned human beings to give them a pop quiz [1h]
- A former mayor in the Philippines may have got a majorly bad deal on computing tech, reportedly paying $175,000 for 16 Intel 11th Gen machines [1h]
- Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man set is full of Spider-Verse Spider-Folk including the superhero identities of Peter Parker's alternate-universe wife and daughter [3h]
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for September 2 (#1536) [7h]
- Blizzard filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against one of World of Warcraft's biggest private servers, but the team behind it is putting on a brave face: 'Challenges come to us often, and each time we are prepared to face them' [12h]
- Delays to escape the shadow of a launch like Silksong are about way more than just day 1 players: 'Every game has to fight and use whatever edge they've got available to stay visible' [13h]
- AI chatbots can be manipulated into breaking their own rules with simple debate tactics like telling them that an authority figure made the request [13h]
- Crusader Kings 3 players have struck out on nearly 5 million seduction attempts, but we still don't know how many Popes have been kidnapped [14h]
- Meta to take 'extra precautions' to stop AI chatbots talking to kids about suicide, which makes you wonder what it's been doing until now [16h]
- Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P daydreams of more crossover events with Evangelion, Gundam, and especially Diablo: 'I love it so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself' [18h]
- Crucial T710 2 TB NVMe SSD review [18h]
- 'Gooning has been vaulted in Fortnite'—Epic stops certain emotes being used in proximity so that horny teenagers can no longer mock-hump each other [18h]
- If you're like me and fell off Valve's other MOBA Deadlock, these last few months of updates are worth coming back for [18h]
- 2024's true GOTY was a Diablo-flavoured Vampire Survivors-like, and it just announced a big free update and an enormo-DLC [19h]
- AntGamer is releasing a 1,000 Hz gaming monitor next year, with a helping hand from AMD, though the chances are you really don't need it [19h]
- One of Roblox's biggest experiences right now is a bizarre Italian Brainrot character-stealing simulator and, lord help me, I now understand why it's so popular [19h]
- Something Cyberpunk 2077 is happening on September 4 and that's all I can tell you because CDPR is a gold-medal vague-poster [19h]
- TSMC hits record 70% foundry market share, making a synapse singeing $30.24 billion in revenue last quarter alone [19h]
- 'Legality is not the defining factor': Anti-porn group that pressured Steam and Itch.io adult game delistings says it goes after games it doesn't like 'even when they are not illegal' [19h]
- I've tested the simple config file tweaks to improve Metal Gear Solid Delta's ray tracing and add frame gen, but the mod to ditch the 60 fps cap is what you really need [19h]
- Total War: Warhammer 3's new random locations can cause a game-ending plague, plant nukes under your settlements, or even buff you in all future campaigns thanks to the power of Tzeentchian time-warpery [20h]
- I've sifted through hundreds of offers and here are my 7 favorite Labor Day PC gaming deals [20h]
- Crucial X10 review [20h]
- 'Magicka scares me', says Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt, since it was made at a time where Arrowhead was much smaller—but he'd still like to revisit the series 'at some point' [21h]
- MSI Crosshair 16 HX AI (2025) review [21h]
- I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $48 set turned up, but now I'm a convert [22h]
- Age verification legislation is tanking traffic to sites that comply, and rewarding those that don't [22h]
- Escape from Tarkov finally puts on the big boy pants and announces a Steam release as it gears up for version 1.0 [22h]
- 'We wanted to focus on performance': Battlefield 6 developer explains why EA is skipping ray tracing at launch [23h]
- How to find and use the Well of Souls in Path of Exile 2 [23h]
- Hero ports entirety of Morrowind into Elden Ring, thumbs nose at 'Bethesda lawyers' as steam presumably shoots out of their ears [23h]
- Even after performance fixes and price cuts, Intel's CEO admits that it 'fumbled the football' with Arrow Lake CPUs but claims that Nova Lake will fix everything [23h]
- 'Min spec is certainly one of our most important': Battlefield 6 dev says low-end build players were a 'meaningful percentage' of the beta, and he aims to keep it that way [23h]
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