The Brutalist Report - pcgamer
- Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted adds a great quality-of-life feature from the console port: a sun vacuum [6h]
- Darktide's second new class is the Hive Scum, its first dual-wielder and drug fiend [9h]
- Half-Life fans are in a frenzy over the prospect of a Half-Life 3 announcement that there's (almost) no good reason to believe is happening [9h]
- Despite 'Mixed' Steam reviews and a touch of AI slop, strategy city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana has the best launch in series history [10h]
- Overwatch fans are desperately trying to solve a mystery with its newest hero, but Blizzard already revealed the answer [10h]
- Apple's 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should've stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick 'almost too crazy to be true' miraculously made it work [10h]
- Rust's 'Pivot or Die' update was meant to shake up the meta, but it's a nightmare for solo survivors that leaves me no choice but to die [11h]
- Monster Hunter is getting a Magic: The Gathering collab, and I think I speak for all fans of cool lizard art when I say: Hell yeah [11h]
- Megabonk developer withdraws from 'Best Debut Indie Game' nomination at The Game Awards for a pretty good reason: 'It's not my debut game' [11h]
- Valve accidentally steps on the make-up deal it offered to the indie game whose 2024 release was ruined by a Steam bug: 'I really get the feeling that Planet Centauri is cursed' [11h]
- Counter-Strike 2 modders surprise drop an excellent Halo 3 multiplayer pack, accidentally proving how badly Valve has squandered Source 2 [12h]
- 20 hours of Elden Ring lore videos are being crammed into one big book by Souls YouTuber VaatiVidya [13h]
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games suffer from trying 'to be everything for everyone' when they should be learning from '80s games: 'These games were really focused, because they had to be' [13h]
- Larian Studios responds to 2025 Game Awards nomination for Baldur's Gate 3, which came out more than 2 years ago: 'honestly, what the f**k' [14h]
- Everyone knows the AI business model is steal first, ask permission later, and Google's CEO is clinging to the notion of opt-outs as justifying it: 'We do give people those rights' [14h]
- Delta Force devs apologise after Facepunch Studios exec accuses them of stealing assets from Rust: 'If you wanted to collab, you should have reached out' [15h]
- Here's how to watch Clair Obscur, KCD2 and others jostle for GOTY at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 [15h]
- Stella Montis condenses everything I love about Arc Raiders by cramming it all into a cramped facility of pure chaos [15h]
- How to find and kill a Matriarch in Arc Raiders [16h]
- Mass Effect 3 redeemed to glory as modder puts its ME1-style elevator back in [16h]
- Anthropic reports the first 80-90% 'AI-orchestrated' cyber espionage campaign, but cybersecurity critics are sceptical [16h]
- A UK trial scheme is attempting to cut heating costs for households with shed-sized mini data centres [16h]
- PC and smartphone markets forecast to shrink in 2026 due to higher prices as memory supply crisis escalates and threatens to spoil Black Friday for PC fans [16h]
- Battlefield 6 is putting on a week-long free trial to celebrate the latest seasonal content, which brings the warzone to an affluent Californian neighbourhood [16h]
- The developer of 80 Days was once invited to pitch a Doctor Who game, but never heard back from the BBC afterward: 'Technically, we're still waiting for a reply' [16h]
- Starting at $550, these two Alienware OLED ultrawide gaming monitor deals are making me hopeful for a bumper Black Friday [17h]
- 'Elon [Musk] truly would be the best owner of any game company,' claims former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick with a completely straight face [17h]
- Thermaltake View 390 Air review [17h]
- Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick wanted to buy Minecraft until he found out Notch was leaving and Microsoft was offering a billion dollars more: 'I'll go airplane shopping with you, but you've gotta take that offer' [17h]
- This speedrunner has been making a glorious multi-handheld gaming PC body harness rig for IRL game streaming on the move [17h]
- Demonschool review [17h]
- Overwatch 2's newest hero has roots in one of the best PvE missions I played 7 years ago [17h]
- When Assassin's Creed's infamously dull main character was finally killed off, voice actor Nolan North didn't find out until a fan told him about it on Twitter [17h]
- Russia just added Stalker dev GSC to its no-no list of 'undesirable organisations', sobs that Stalker 2 promoted 'Ukrainian narratives' and 'aggressive Russophobic content' [17h]
- Staring down the barrel of a rough 2026, Ubisoft's UK arm says we're less interested in 'one time purchase' games and all about that live service dripfeed [18h]
- I've already spotted an OLED RTX 5060 gaming laptop for under $1,000 in the early Black Friday sales and it's a bit of a peach [18h]
- You might want to crack open Armoury Crate as Asus has some 'BIG' updates for the ROG Xbox Ally X and non-X, plus some smaller ones for the older ROG handhelds [18h]
- I might just play more News Tower instead of going to therapy [18h]
- Arc Raiders' new Deadline mine is so effective that it can one-shot a Bastion, tear a Leaper apart, and help destroy a Queen arc in just 10 minutes [18h]
- State-level crackdowns in the US threaten to 'break VPN access for the entire internet,' claims online privacy nonprofit [19h]
- OLED PC monitor sales are booming, up 65% on last year with Asus leading the charge [19h]
- Cloudflare goes down, with major sites like X, ChatGPT, and Letterboxd going down with it [19h]
- Super-fast gaming mice that weigh less than a feather are all well and good, but what the market really needs are more options for fit and feel, just like the Orbital Pathfinder [20h]
- Google CEO's warning about the AI bubble bursting: 'No company is going to be immune, including us' [20h]
- Valve says the Steam Machine is better than what 70% of PC gamers have at home, a convenient reminder that not all gaming PCs are monster rigs [20h]
- Arc Raiders players decided to test who was friendlier, PC or console players: 'I am never playing the game on cross-play ever again' [20h]
- Ex-Square Enix suit says you can whine all you like, but 'Gen Z loves AI slop' and everyone and their grandma is already using it [20h]
- I've played 40 hours of Arc Raiders and only just discovered there's a locked room that requires an epic material to open, not a keycard [21h]
- Seven years after launch and eighteen years after Steam, the Epic Games Store will now let you gift games directly to your friends [21h]
- AMD is reportedly planning a GPU price rise as the memory shortage crisis bites and odds of decent Black Friday graphics card deals look increasingly slim [21h]
- All Bee Swarm Simulator codes for November 2025: Gumdrops, Honey, and Tickets [21h]
- There is no glitch—turns out, you need more than just heroic dialogue choices to get Dispatch's best ending, you've gotta be good at your job, too [21h]
- Apparently Windows 11 becoming 'agentic AI' means letting the bots rummage through some of your files [22h]
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