The Brutalist Report - gaming
- Fans claim Blizzard's new Diablo Immortal x Hearthstone art was made with generative AI [7d]
- Gabe Newell on the difference between billionaires and the rest of us: 'It would be great to say I'm an absolutely f***ing wonderful person and I earned this... but there was an awful lot of luck' [7d]
- A 21-second video of a hand ignites a sizzling debate over the FPS 'tac sprint' [7d]
- Dune: Awakening 'temporarily' disables Steam Family Sharing, potentially through the end of 2025: 'We have unfortunately seen this feature abused frequently' [7d]
- After selling to Krafton, Last Epoch dev says fans shouldn't be worried about the Subnautica 2 dispute: 'Krafton isn't looking to change us' [7d]
- How Mycopunk's devs turned a school project with zero funding into a 'Very Positive' Steam launch: 'We wanted to make our own dream version of Deep Rock or Helldivers' [7d]
- The first 'real videogame' Gabe Newell played was Star Trek, where you made your choices via punch cards before running over to the printer: 'It usually takes about 15 minutes to do a move' [7d]
- The young Gabe Newell thought he'd be a doctor until he ended up visiting his brother at Microsoft, where 'Steve Ballmer got mad and said 'If you're going to be hanging out here, why don't you do something useful?'' [7d]
- Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was' [7d]
- If you loved Baldur's Gate 3 then you probably shouldn't pick up this $10 bundle of incredibly crusty D&D games, but if you're cool you should [7d]
- Financial Times report suggests chip smugglers shifted an alleged $1 billion worth of Nvidia's AI chips to China over the course of 3 months while stricter US export controls were in effect [7d]
- The majority of teams in the top 100 for Destiny 2's latest contest mode raid cheated—and as an MMO player, I am neither shocked nor surprised [7d]
- Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima [7d]
- Dev insists a glossed-up version of Daggerfall's aesthetic was 'invented' by AI, which is a bit like saying I can invent a new plane by drawing a picture of one [7d]
- Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for' [7d]
- Elden Ring Nightreign is finally adding its missing duos mode on July 30 [7d]
- Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has been wishlisted on Steam 1 million times, and will be published in November by Devolver Digital [7d]
- 'People hate it. It's very annoying. It's like a boss in Dark Souls': Quarantine Zone's biggest source of negative feedback is that damn supply cart [7d]
- 'You can't raw dog it' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'If you're not using AI, you're going to lose your job to somebody who uses AI' [7d]
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers devs promise performance fixes are on the way, as it fights a flock of negative Steam reviews: 'These problems should never have occurred' [7d]
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has its summer roadmap and, with all due respect, how did it take this long to get a fast-forward time option? [8d]
- Microsoft CEO consoles employees by saying recent layoffs are 'the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value' [8d]
- 'I do not subscribe to the belief that if you build it, they will come' says Intel's new CEO, calling past investments 'unwise and excessive' [8d]
- Asus says 'all issues have been resolved' regarding Armoury Crate, MyAsus, and router vulnerabilities, so I'd jump on those updates now if you were putting them off [8d]
- A single guessed password has led to a cyberattack that put a fully insured 158-year-old company out of business despite security practices being up to code [8d]
- Intel's German megafab dream is over: CEO Lip-Bu Tan kills the project, beset with setbacks from EU funding to ancient neolithic remains, to save cash [8d]
- SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3X review [8d]
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs are the new popular kids on the RPG block, visiting both Hideo Kojima and Final Fantasy creators Square Enix for 'a creatively rich exchange of visions and ideas' [8d]
- AMD's mighty 96-core Threadripper Pro has been overclocked with a car radiator and some big ol' beefy fans, and I am remarkably satisfied [8d]
- Half-Life 2 just got a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a train easier to race [8d]
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 25 [8d]
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