The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• My favorite horror game of 2025 sounds like a literal nightmare because its composer sampled the creaking of an old house and a metal saw scraping 'an instrument that sounded horrifying yet could have been made in feudal Japan' [102d]
• Krafton CEO allegedly asked ChatGPT to help him find a way out of paying Subnautica 2 devs their bonuses because he wanted to avoid the 'professional embarrassment' of being seen as a 'pushover' [102d]
• Blizzard hit the $90 dinosaur mount emergency button to fill the gap before the next WoW expansion and players are already dumping millions of gold into the ether to buy it [102d]
• Arc Raiders physics don't get better than this one-in-a-million shot of a Queen getting suplexed by a probe [103d]
• The Game Awards nominations are here, and—surprise—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was nominated for every qualifying category [103d]
• All Jujutsu Shenanigans codes for November 2025: Cash and emotes [103d]
• Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick says gaming is 'moving towards PC' as the industry shifts away from closed systems, but we still don't have a GTA 6 announcement [103d]
• The best PC gamepad you can get just got a sweet Black Friday deal, with 1000 Hz polling and TMR sticks for less than AU$140 [103d]
• 'Hytale is saved': Riot sells cancelled game back to original co-founder, who promises to take it 'back to the original vision for Hytale' [103d]
• 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working of plenty games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them [103d]
• Jailed British hacker who hijacked X accounts including Apple, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama—then used them for a 'double your money' Bitcoin scam—has to hand back $5.4 million in ill-gotten crypto gains [103d]