The Brutalist Report - gaming
- One year later, City of Heroes' officially recognized fan server has me praying it's the future of dead MMOs [24d]
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' first hotfix addresses stability issues and a photo mode crash [24d]
- CD Projekt says it's not using generative AI on The Witcher 4 because it's 'quite tricky when it comes to legal IP ownership' [24d]
- The 5th highest-rated game on Steam in 2022 is back with a multiplayer sequel [24d]
- After punishing my graphics card with Monster Hunter Wilds, I've returned to the rock-solid frame rates of my old hunting grounds: Windows XP [24d]
- Game Informer is back from the dead: 'The whole team has returned' [24d]
- From Palworld movies to Palworld TV shows: 'Everyone under the sun pitched us every idea you can imagine,' says Pocketpair's communications director [24d]
- The Witcher 4 won't be out until sometime in 2027 at the soonest, CD Projekt says [24d]
- After 23 years of making Dwarf Fortress, even its creator is still 'terrified' of drowning all his dwarves with heavy aquifers: 'Part of the problem is we are just not good at videogames' [24d]
- A unique aspect of Japanese architecture turned out to be a key reason the Like a Dragon games can reuse assets so effectively—and deliver more compact, memorable open worlds than western cities [24d]
- Pacific Drive developers change their mind: A year after refusing to give it mid-run saves, it's getting mid-run saves [24d]
- Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime's new company is putting Sea of Thieves-style shenanigans in space with a new crew-based shooter [24d]
- Here's that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 mod that turns everyone into skeletons you asked for [24d]
- Forget REPO, Monster Hunter Wilds and Assassin's Creed Shadows, Steam's current global top seller is an early access game about managing a drug empire [24d]
- Former Bethesda dev who quit Starfield to go solo says it's 'much less stressful as an indie' without daily meetings or 'office politics': it's 'very refreshing to just care about the game' [24d]
- I'm convinced being a ghoul in Fallout 76 is the best way to vibe in West Virginia, thanks to these powerful perk cards and my new true love: Radiation [24d]
- Ubisoft says don't compare Assassin's Creed Shadows' success to Valhalla: The latter launched in Covid's 'perfect storm' and feedback on platforms 'less affected by review bombing' is stellar [24d]
- Thunder X3 Lab-X review [24d]
- Dwarf Fortress' creator is so tired of hearing about AI: 'Press a button and it writes a really sh*tty, wrong essay about something—and they still take your job' [24d]
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 won't have typical RPG romantic relationships, but it will feature 'romantic feeding' [24d]
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, but I'm not too worried—I've played it, and it's looking great [24d]
- AMD's next-gen 'Gorgon Point' APU outted and seemingly sticks with RDNA 3.5 graphics which is disappointing for handheld gaming PCs if accurate [24d]
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 first hands-on: A gory, undead power fantasy that I'm desperate to play again [24d]
- Discord drops big update with 'completely new' in-game overlay and new dark themes for the desktop client [24d]
- Random characters kept swearing in Obsidian's font-obsessed murder-mystery when its procedural error system ran amok: 'Naughtiness abounded' [24d]
- Minecraft's never going free-to-play because as it stands it's 'the best deal in the world' [25d]
- After 17 years, devs of the only roguelike where players ask 'the best way to get the most limbs' can't believe its success: 'More people have bought Caves of Qud than are in this stadium, how do you reckon with that?' [25d]
- Oh my God, it's happening: Monster Hunter Wilds is finally bringing Lagiacrus home from the war [25d]
- Tony Hawk apparently intervened to get Bam Margera into Pro Skater 3+4: 'No, you're gonna do it' [25d]
- Monster Hunter Wilds' first title update is overflowing with new stuff: A long-awaited Grand Hub, Arch-tempered Monsters, Arena Quests, and most importantly, fashion [25d]
- Steel Hunters is like a more tactical Titanfall, but as an extraction shooter it's undermined by boring loot [25d]
- AMD's CEO claims 9070 XT sales are 10x higher than all previous Radeon generations but that's just for the first week of availability [25d]
- Second Steam listing this year found hiding 'new and clever' malware. This time through a fake demo link on developer's website [25d]
- With Nvidia Ace taking up 1 GB of VRAM in Inzoi, Team Green will need to up its memory game if AI NPCs take off in PC gaming [25d]
- AMD says 'there is a ton of interest' in FSR 4 and that it is 'working very hard to make sure the next blockbusters that come out are enabled with FSR 4 technology' [25d]
- Samsung has a crack at ye olde glasses-free 3D monitor thing but it's new cheaper 49-inch ultrawide OLED is far more interesting [25d]
- 'Never thought I'd go back' Helldivers 2 players steel themselves to return to the site of its most infamous battle, Malevelon Creek [25d]
- 'It's a bittersweet victory': Meta has been forced to stop ad-tracking one individual in the UK after settling a years-long court case [25d]
- Assassin's Creed Shadows is a hit and Steam played a 'significant role' in that: 27% of activations were on PC and it's the 2nd-biggest AC launch of all time [25d]
- Blizzard plans to revive WoW Classic Hardcore characters 'at our sole discretion', after DDOS attack puts major streamer guild OnlyFangs in the ground [25d]
- 'You just have to make them think this world is real, and this world can hurt you': The Outlast Trials devs discuss a changing horror genre and an insatiable need for scares [25d]
- 'Is this a practical way to play your Steam games? Nope, not even a little bit.' But getting Steam running on Armbian and a single board computer really is a thing [25d]
- How a Microsoft exec managed to pitch Microsoft Word through the genius tactic of being able to actually use it in a 'type-off' demanded by clients: 'I was the only one who'd actually been a secretary' [25d]
- Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box [25d]
- US pressures Malaysia to stop banned AI chips potentially entering China by monitoring 'every shipment that comes to Malaysia when it involves Nvidia chips' [25d]
- While Waiting is a game all about chugging through life's most mundane tasks with a heaping side order of whimsy [25d]
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 25 [25d]
- Magic: The Gathering's Tarkir: Dragonstorm set isn't just about dragons [25d]
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