The Brutalist Report - pcgamer
- A beginner's guide to installing Stardew Valley mods: SMAPI, Stardrop, and more [9h]
- If Xbox is 'recommitting' to its console, what does that mean for its recent 'everything is an Xbox' strategy? [10h]
- No layoffs at Xbox as a result of leadership shakeup, new chief content officer Matt Booty says: 'My focus is on supporting the teams and leaders we have in place and creating the conditions for them to do their best work' [11h]
- New Xbox boss Asha Sharma promises no 'soulless AI slop' after moving over from Microsoft's CoreAI products division [12h]
- Players spent roughly 10,250,000,000 monthly hours in Roblox in 2025, analyst says—more than Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined [12h]
- Warlocks have taken the throne as Diablo 2's best class 26 years later, and Blizzard seems to be OK with letting them have their fun for now [12h]
- DICE agrees that some Battlefield 6 vehicles are 'death traps' and is planning a Labs test dedicated to 'vehicle improvements' [12h]
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer is retiring, and his replacement is an AI executive who joined Microsoft in 2024 [13h]
- Ubisoft CEO confirms new Assassin's Creed and Far Cry games are coming, denies that putting his son in charge of them was nepotism [14h]
- Imagine if politics were full of monsters! Haha, no, I mean fun monsters like vampires, orcs, and goblins who use cards to hurl insults and smears at each other [15h]
- Nothing beats putting all my little stuff on my many little shelves in a super cozy shop sim like Thrifty Business [15h]
- Arc Raiders proves it has one of the most wholesome fanbases once again, as a stranger spends 15 minutes painstakingly escorting a downed raider to safety [17h]
- Security researchers claim Persona, the provider behind Discord's UK age verification 'experiment', performs '269 individual verification checks' on user data, including those for terrorism and espionage [17h]
- Skate is locking a map area behind a paywall after promising no map areas would be locked behind paywalls: 'We will need to make changes as we go sometimes' [17h]
- Corsair introduces two new case colours 'that change tone as light moves across the surface' and from where I'm standing, they look fire [17h]
- After breaking Winston's heart last week, Overwatch players have abandoned Talon in this week's vote, and it's all down to the cat [17h]
- Capcom pleads with its community once again to avoid sharing Resident Evil Requiem leaks: 'We really want everyone to enjoy the game's story and experience as much as possible' [17h]
- Embark's plans to rework Arc Raiders' account-wiping Expeditions: 'We didn't have time to shift the system to what we intend to do next' [17h]
- Arc Raiders is such a huge hit, Nexon has put Embark Studios CEO Patrick Söderlund in charge of everything else too [17h]
- Todd Howard has 'softened' on remasters, but he's still 'anti-remake' [18h]
- Mchose L7 Pro+ review [18h]
- This simulation of how an old 8-bit processor fetches data from ROM is a thing of beauty [18h]
- Renewed hopes of a Nier: Automata sequel as the cult action RPG's 9th-anniversary livestream ends with a teasing message [18h]
- There could be a new God of War project involving new Kratos' voice actor Christopher Judge revealed 'late summer', but nobody should feel great about how that news broke [18h]
- Arc Raiders' wall-breaking exploits took so long to fix because they were 'intrinsic to the way the game is built': 'Those things are very risky to patch rapidly' [19h]
- The Future Games Show returns this March with the voices of Lae'zel and Batman as hosts [19h]
- A Resident Evil Requiem pull-up bar bundle sold out in Japan in less than five hours, and honestly, it just makes sense [19h]
- If I had just set a new world record for GPU overclocking, I'd surely be making a lot more fuss about it than AMD has [19h]
- The best Geralt, Doug Cockle, completed The Witcher 3, got the best ending, and was driven 'bonkers' by the Bloody Baron quest [19h]
- I have to ask what this prebuilt gaming PC is doing with 32 GB of DDR5 RAM—but for only $1,235, I can afford to ask fewer questions [21h]
- Acer and Asus' German websites are down in wake of lawsuit, but Acer says its own will 'be up again shortly' so customers can get BIOS updates again [21h]
- Some users are claiming Discord's default process priorities are causing performance problems in esports games, so I've tested it myself to see what's going on [21h]
- Microsoft's AI PC beginner's guide demonstrates how convoluted its branding has become, but hey, at least 'AI is not here to replace you' [21h]
- WoW dev was surprised that players 'like being jumped' by the upcoming Prey system—even on its hardest difficulty, where 'going AFK might get you killed' [22h]
- Nioh 3 has sold over 1 million copies in two weeks, breaking Team Ninja's record and carrying the series to 10 million sales [22h]
- Kick off the year of the horse with a stableful of discounted horse games in Steam Horse Fest [23h]
- A redditor claims to have found a horrifying, AI-generated, multi-limbed figure in a rental house listing photo and it's exactly the sort of Phasmophobia-style jump scare I didn't need this morning [23h]
- 'Our most uncompromising keyboard ever built': Razer has unveiled a new signature edition version of its Huntsman keyboard, but I can't get over the price [23h]
- We're getting even more free lootboxes and a double XP weekend in Overwatch just for playing the game [23h]
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