The Brutalist Report - gaming
- Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, December 18 [4d]
- After being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs, Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages: 'This can happen to you too when you sacrifice over 2,000 hours of your time to help the industry' [4d]
- The Sims designer Will Wright says a 'Britney Spears-level' pop star loved her 'mundane' life in The Sims: 'It is so boring, it's wonderful' [4d]
- The Sims designer Will Wright is making his next life sim more personal by building it with your actual memories: 'No game designer has ever gone wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players' [4d]
- Be happy, Black Myth: Wukong fans, because it is literally impossible for Astro Bot to win Game of the Year in the 2024 Steam Game Awards [4d]
- Chess is now an esport as Esports World Cup adds the 1,500 year-old game to 2025 event, calls it 'the perfect example of how games evolve' [4d]
- With equal parts confusion and shame, I regret to inform you that Skibidi Toilet is coming to Fortnite [4d]
- Samsung Galaxy Book4 Ultra review [4d]
- Shiren the Wanderer's simple graphics disguise a systems-dense roguelike full of the emergent stories I love the genre for [4d]
- Revenge of the Savage Planet adds a new perspective and deeper satire to the sequel's 'optimistic yet funny dystopia' [4d]
- Exodus, the new game being led by BioWare veteran James Ohlen, finally reveals some gameplay, and boy it sure looks like Mass Effect [4d]
- GTA 6 was never going to be at The Game Awards, but it is a little surprising that we haven't seen another trailer yet [4d]
- In survival game Rust, Santa Claus doesn't care if you've been good or bad or really, really bad, he still has gifts for you [4d]
- Path of Exile 2 makes buildcrafting more approachable than ever—but I'm glad I can still sleepwalk through screenfuls of skeletons in the original [5d]
- 'Neural Rendering' could be the new AI-powered sorcery in Nvidia's next-gen RTX 50-series GPUs [5d]
- The Nvidia App is damaging frame rates in some games, on some PCs, with Nvidia staffers recommending you nix the Game Filters overlay as a potential solution to the problem [5d]
- Critical metals for electronic components and gadgets jump in price, as China's trade restrictions with the US begin to bite [5d]
- 'Fight me': Ben Starr humorously responds to disappointment about Clive Rosfield in Tekken 8 by showing off his cosplay of the Final Fantasy character everyone thought it would be [5d]
- Final Fantasy 14's battle design lead says it would 'be a dream come true' to do a League of Legends crossover [5d]
- Marvel Rivals is getting its first seasonal event soon, which'll let you run around as everyone's favourite land shark to play some legally-distinct Splatoon [5d]
- Putty, not pads: Thermal Grizzly's new thermal materials might be the best thing for your graphics card just don't ask for any numbers [5d]
- Zotac website leak seemingly confirms monstrous 32GB Nvidia RTX 5090 but we're still concerned about how stingy Nvidia might be further down its new GPU range [5d]
- Noctua NH-D15 G2 review [5d]
- Best Ranger starter build in Path of Exile 2 [5d]
- All of today's mighty CPUs owe a debt of gratitude to the Intel 8080, which just turned 50 [5d]
- Path of Exile 2 passive skill respecs will no longer cost Scrooge McDuck levels of gold [5d]
- Tiny Glade's winter update finally lets me turn my castles into that scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation [5d]
- New details of TSMC's next-gen N2 chip tech aren't totally stellar but could provide a roadmap for new GPUs right through to 2031 [5d]
- Nvidia's corporate blog goes full fan mode with its description of Jen-Hsun Huang: 'Tech Leader, AI Visionary, Endlessly Curious' [5d]
- Marvel Rivals is 'not considering' a role queue, no matter how annoying it is to get rinsed on a team of 6 duelists [5d]
- How to use the Sacrificial Heart in Path of Exile 2 [5d]
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