The Brutalist Report - gaming
- By surrendering to an 'open weapons' default, Battlefield 6 is giving up the most special thing about Battlefield [3d]
- Marvel Rivals dev's transparent, 18-minute breakdown of how ranked isn't rigged fails to placate players who hate losing [3d]
- After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0 [3d]
- Even more games are moving out of Silksong's way: 'I feel like a little krill trying not to get eaten by a blue whale' [3d]
- Enshrouded's next big update is bringing way more water to the survival RPG than I expected [3d]
- 'I think the United States should be given 10% of Intel': US president Trump wants a piece of the action, says CEO Lip Bu Tan has already forked over $10 billion because he wants to 'keep his job' [3d]
- Metal Gear Solid Delta still lets you wait two weeks for a boss to die of old age—or mess with your system clock to cheat him out of his final fight [4d]
- I bought GTA+ so you don't have to—and I don't think it's worth the subscription even for GTA Online diehards [4d]
- Dawn of War 4 developer King Art knows what you all really want: 'Overwhelmingly, it's singleplayer content and the campaign' [4d]
- I've played Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's DLC clans, Lasombra and Toreador, and they absolutely should have been in the base game [4d]
- Amid sweeping changes, it's refreshing to see that the Battlefield 6 beta was an actual playtest, and not a glorified demo [4d]
- A free Chrome VPN with over 100,000 installations has been accused of snapping unauthorised screenshots of websites and spying on its users location data [4d]
- Everyone's heading back to Hollow Knight for one last go before Silksong comes out—the game's all-time Steam peak is rising as I write this headline [4d]
- AMD's FSR 4 open source whoopsie-daisy may be harder to take back than initially thought, thanks to the inclusion of a difficult-to-revoke MIT license [4d]
- 'Silksong lol': CloverPit devs delay the slot machine Balatro-like by 23 days to escape the blast radius of Silksong's launch [4d]
- Microsoft's DirectX Advanced Shader Delivery tech might be the eventual answer to stuttering and shader compilation woes, but it's limited to the ROG Ally X for now [4d]
- After months of back and forth, Nvidia has reportedly paused making its H20 chip due to security concerns, this time from China [4d]
- The first reported case of an AMD RX 9070 XT melting a 16-pin power connector is here, but I'm not sure we should prepare ourselves for another 'meltgate' just yet [4d]
- You've got approximately 12 months left to enjoy Overwatch 2 because it just got the Persona 5 collaboration kiss of death [4d]
- Microsoft's CEO of artificial intelligence believes advocating for 'rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship' will become 'a dangerous turn in AI progress' [4d]
- 'They’re just hiding the critical information': Google says its Gemini AI sips a mere 'five drops' of water per text prompt, but experts disagree with its findings [4d]
- Critical Role's next D&D campaign will have 13 players and 3 parties—and I have no idea where Brennan is getting this energy from [4d]
- Photography puzzler Opus: Prism Peak might be the rare game to actually pull its Studio Ghibli vibes off [4d]
- How to get all the berry plants in Grow a Garden [4d]
- I modded guns into Baldur’s Gate 3—and now I’m an unstoppable angel of death [4d]
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater review [4d]
- The creators of Deadly Premonition and No More Heroes are releasing a typically over-the-top roguelite 'fever dream' next month [4d]
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 22 (#1525) [4d]
- 'Legal inquiry' shuts down one of Final Fantasy 14's most popular mods, adding yet another blurry line in the sand from Square Enix [4d]
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