The Brutalist Report - gaming
- Somebody finally figured out casual Counter-Strike [30d]
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s getting a new roguelite wave defense mode that sounds a whole lot like a souped-up take on Killing Floor [30d]
- 'Players don't explore': former Grand Theft Auto 6 and Red Dead Online designer lays out the perils of 'open world fatigue' [30d]
- Nearly 2 years after its last update, the excellent Battle Brothers gets 'a bucket load of fixes' and free new content [30d]
- Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio's UI designer is open to accessibility options for players who find the stylish menus overstimulating: 'That is something we understand we'll need to work on and provide in the future' [30d]
- Outer space inspired DayZ's Dean Hall to become a modder and game developer, and now he's making a Kerbal successor called Kitten Space Agency [30d]
- Split Fiction is reportedly at the center of a bidding war for its movie rights [30d]
- Seekers of Skyveil, the MOBA—extraction shooter mashup, is shutting down less than a month after release: ‘We have no choice but to bring this short journey to an end’ [30d]
- Gabe Newell is hooked on Stalker 2 and once he's got the fourth ending (!) will 'figure out what I'm going to play next' [30d]
- Like a Dragon series director sums up why sidequests are essential to a great RPG with a single metaphor: 'a good main dish alone will not earn you a Michelin star' [30d]
- Bethesda marks Oblivion's 19th with a sweetroll, a candle, and absolutely no happy birthday gift for fans eager for the still-unannounced remaster [30d]
- Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note' [30d]
- Helldivers 2 composer recalls stomping around his apartment and channeling 'Super Patriotism' to capture Arrowhead's satirical vision in music: 'The satire works because the music believes it's a pure patriotic love without irony or criticism' [30d]
- REPO dev says it wasn’t actually inspired by Lethal Company, and started as a singleplayer cleaning game: ‘It was nice, but far from what REPO is now’ [30d]
- 'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback [30d]
- Logitech G PowerPlay 2 mouse pad review [30d]
- Inzoi's 'Smart Zoi' AI system sounds great on paper but seeing it in a live demo didn't exactly wow me [30d]
- Getting to level 50 in Fallout 76 to become a ghoul actually isn't as daunting as it seems, which is why I created a new character [30d]
- A Jensen Huang-signed version of this golden Asus RTX 5090 will be auctioned off to support relief efforts for the California wildfires [30d]
- Nvidia CEO sets sights on making 'several hundred billion' dollars worth of electronics in the USA over the next four years, increasing the chance of your next GPU being made in America [30d]
- 'We all got laid off', says former Deck Nine narrative designer, after no-one was around to pick up Life is Strange: Double Exposure's GDC Awards win [30d]
- Monster Hunter Wilds' first free update will feature 'a whole host of new additions' and a majestic water wyvern for players to blow sky high [30d]
- Ichiban Kasuga makes like a dragonfish and joins Dave the Diver’s latest DLC on April 10th for some fisticuffs and a few rounds of karaoke [30d]
- All Assassin's Creed Shadows Tea Ceremony answers [30d]
- You can win an MSI RTX 5080 in Taiwan if you collect nine dragon figurines given away with *checks notes* MSI RTX 50-series GPUs [30d]
- PC Gamer vindicated by Swen Vincke: Larian boss calls Balatro his personal GOTY as it sweeps top prize from devs at GDC awards [30d]
- Colorful iGame RTX 5070 Ti Vulcan OC review [30d]
- After a controversial coding slip-up fed stalkers info on their victim's alts, FF14 wipes the slate clean to try and fix its mistakes [30d]
- Look Outside is a survival horror RPG where you absolutely should not look outside [30d]
- Microsoft announces DirectX Raytracing 1.2 claiming 'game changing' performance benefits but it looks like the important stuff is already in Nvidia's RTX GPUs, even the old ones [30d]
- This fighter is Marvel Vs Capcom for classic mecha anime sickos, launching into early access with a strategy RPG story mode on its heels [30d]
- Microsoft crawls back to Steam ahead of schedule by leaking a screenshot of an app where you can launch Steam games through Xbox [30d]
- Assassin's Creed Shadows immersive mode explained [30d]
- Assassin's Creed Shadows guided exploration explained [30d]
- Assassin's Creed Shadows canon mode explained [30d]
- Dive into Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium's exhilarating new update [Aphelion] [30d]
- Atomfall review [30d]
- The first non-Steam Deck SteamOS handheld is now available for preorder, and Lenovo may be aiming for the ROG Ally X's throne [30d]
- Ghoul players in Fallout 76 are starting to place their Camps in the most radioactive areas of the map, and regular humans aren't happy: 'I had to inject 30+ radaway into my veins' [30d]
- Friendship ended with human race: Boffins declare the 'meme Turing test' has been passed, and AI is now making funnier captions on average than you useless lumps [30d]
- Baldur's Gate 3's latest stress test update fixes heartbreaking bug that caused a total party-wipe on Ironman Mode at the game's final boss, forcing dejected testers to restart the entire game [30d]
- Acer Predator Z57 review [30d]
- X-Com creator Julian Gollop unexpectedly takes over sequel to sprawling board game adaptation, and you can try out the closed beta next week [30d]
- CEO Jensen Huang reveals that Nvidia is now making chips in the USA but will that help with gaming GPU supplies? [30d]
- After Ubi came crawlin' back to Steam, Assassin's Creed Shadows blasts past a million players in under 24 hours and has already smashed Valhalla's player record [30d]
- Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich' [30d]
- Mackie CR3.5BT + CR8SBT subwoofer review [30d]
- Animal Use Protocol's dysfunctional chimp-rat alliance drags the Stasis series into a horrible new first-person era [30d]
- GOG's version of Silent Hill 4 has been updated with missing content from the original console game [31d]
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, March 21 [31d]
- Wizards of the Coast throws a bone to players who miss vanilla Magic: The Gathering with a dragon-themed set called Tarkir: Dragonstorm [31d]
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