The Brutalist Report - gaming
- I thought it was a cute and casual little mining sim right up until it devoured my entire morning [3d]
- When the quality-of-life update fixes something that annoyed me, after I stop playing the dang game [3d]
- My speakers automatically go into standby mode and it's driving me mad [3d]
- After 10 years, there's a functioning Metal Gear Solid 5 co-op mod so you and a friend can be played like a damn fiddle together [3d]
- Indie horror game rejected by Steam releases for free instead: 'This is our response to being censored, and our rejection of the idea that horror can be defined as acceptable or not' [3d]
- After next week's Grafton Farmhouse rework, Phasmophobia is getting what I can only describe as 'haunted Waffle House' [3d]
- 'Touch grass, read a book, throw a ball, get tackled once in a while': Epic Games art director and OG System Shock 2 artist says the best-looking videogames are designed by people who don't just look at videogames [3d]
- Search sucks [3d]
- 'We didn't vote for ChatGPT': Prime Minister of Sweden admits he uses AI chatbots for 'second opinions' and an awful lot of people are not happy about it [3d]
- EA tosses a last-minute life preserver to fans who missed out on Battlefield 6 beta early access, offers one more chance to get in [3d]
- Thousands of people are so eager to blow stuff up in the Battlefield 6 beta they're idling in the main menu [3d]
- Kingmakers, the medieval combat sim with tanks and M16s, warns that guns don't always win knife fights: 'Not all of your bullets will have an easy time taking down all enemy types' [3d]
- No more deploy beacon clown cars for recon players in Battlefield 6—the assault class will get them instead: 'We're intentionally redefining it as a teamplay tool for frontline flanking' [3d]
- Intel's bad news year rolls on as new 18A chip manufacturing node is reportedly in trouble with 10% yields and doubts over profitability of the Panther Lake CPU [3d]
- TSMC fires several employees over the suspicion of stealing 2 nm process tech secrets, with Taiwan authorities investigating the matter due to national security fears [3d]
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Seamless co-op mod now allows up to 6 players, but won't add any more as 'the game just becomes comically easy' [3d]
- 'Btw, we recently found the Vine video archive' says Elon Musk after declaring Grok's video generation to be the AI equivalent [3d]
- All Fruit Battlegrounds codes and how to redeem [3d]
- DeepMind CEO makes big brain claims, saying AGI could be here within 'five to 10 years' and cause humanity to experience widespread change that's '10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and maybe 10 times faster' [3d]
- Marvel Rivals 3.5 sneaks in one very minor change to appease those who hate the new end-of-match overview, and it works [3d]
- The official mod support of Baldur's Gate 3 is a heaving success with over 265 million downloads, 250,000 of which are Withers Big Naturals [3d]
- AMD's new AM6 socket has all the pins—2,100 of 'em—but don't worry, your old CPU cooler will apparently still fit just fine [3d]
- All Tennis: Zero codes and how to redeem [3d]
- Silent Hill f's director is breaking tradition by adding 'more entertaining and thrilling action' to appeal to younger audiences [3d]
- Battlefield 6 devs have been 'closely tracking player behaviour' to perfect maps and change objective layouts ahead of launch [3d]
- Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for hiding 'crawling activity' as AI bot scrapes websites that explicitly disallow it, Perplexity responds by calling them 'more flair than cloud' [3d]
- League of Legends' Wild Rift China posts AI slop that looks like a fever dream you'd have after watching KPop Demon Hunters, deletes it after backlash [3d]
- Battlefield 6 will introduce classic maps 'based on fan or player requests', and I can already see where this is going: 'we want to choose the best possible one to bring back the good old days of playing Battlefield' [3d]
- Need to clone your boot drive for your next PC upgrade? I've discovered my new favorite tool [3d]
- Ex-Intel and AMD graphics chief Raja Koduri promises a RISC-V based IP that 'rearchitects the GPU from first principles' but with few details in the startup word-salad [3d]
- EVO's ultimate gamer crashout wasn't a panic attack or a moment that lost him the tournament—it was a 10-year-old joke finally coming full circle [3d]
- AMD rolls out Radeon RX 9060 non-XT with fewer cores, lower clocks and 8 GB of slower VRAM but you probably can't buy it direct [3d]
- AMD said it would be too expensive and of no real benefit to gaming, but if one rumour is to be believed, a dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen is actually in the pipeline [3d]
- All Jujutsu Infinite codes and how to redeem [3d]
- Graphics card prices are totally ridiculous and it's creating a barrier to entry that makes me fear for the future of PC gaming [3d]
- Shadowheart has been respecced over 4,890,005 times in Baldur's Gate 3, and I know at least 2 reasons why [3d]
- Peak dev would rather you pirate Peak than play a 'microtransaction Roblox slop ripoff' [4d]
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 5 (#1508) [4d]
- Larian says it's going to expand the Baldur's Gate 3 mod toolkit 'to give you even more freedom,' so there goes another 100 hours I've lost to modding [4d]
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