The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• Action RPG players will exploit anything in the name of efficiency, which is why Path of Exile 2 players are locking themselves in the campaign for profit [15d]
• Peak devs were ready to go 'into vacation mode' after releasing it, but then it sold 1M copies in the first week: 'That quickly became a pipe dream' [15d]
• I spent 2025 digging through all the word game roguelikes flooding Steam to see if any could capture Balatro’s magic—here are the highly scientific results [15d]
• Relax after a holiday feast by joining us for a nostalgic tour of old Japanese game mags that blurred the lines between analogue and digital [15d]
• PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby [15d]
• 'It was definitely interesting': Persona 5: The Phantom X developer was surprised that people outside of Japan were 'cheering' for the Subway Slammer [15d]
• Persona 5: The Phantom X had a hard time doing away with the series' iconic calendar system: 'It was very difficult to convince the team' [15d]
• 'Our fans have been very passionate': How player feedback has been at the core of the first six months of Persona 5: The Phantom X [15d]
• 2026 may be year of the horse, but 2025 certainly gave it a good go with the amount of horse-related games, expansions, and updates we've had [15d]
• My fave piece of PC gaming tech to launch this year was the softest kind of hardware there is [15d]
• Tiny Bookshop gave me the moment every book lover lives for: recommending the perfect book to a friend and them instantly loving it [15d]
• Are you a proper Sims buff? See if you can name all 97 expansion, game, and stuff packs in our quiz! [15d]
• An innocuous video about how FromSoft protagonists are 5 feet 7 inches tall led to me becoming weirdly fixated about videogame character height this year [15d]
• PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best SSD of 2025 [15d]
• Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar taught me that farming simulators don't have to follow the same routine to be just as fun as Stardew Valley this year [15d]
• PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming handheld of 2025 [15d]