The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• How to watch Warhammer Skulls 2026 [15d]
• I read every document in the Musk vs Altman case and my takeaway is: 'Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point' [15d]
• In the early 1990s, Doom was famously installed on more PCs than Windows itself—but how many was that, actually? [15d]
• Nearly a decade after its last update, Darksiders Warmastered Edition gets a photo mode and motion controls in a surprise new patch [15d]
• Splitgate studio reveals its new game, looks a lot like its old game [15d]
• Civ 7's massive overhaul update brings its highest Steam player count in over a year [15d]
• Valve asks New York court to dismiss Counter-Strike lawsuit, says 'people enjoy surprises' and equating loot boxes to gambling is 'nonsensical' [15d]
• Another live service game is dead just a few months after launch [15d]
• Embark busts 9 myths about Arc Raiders' aggression-based matchmaking, and says defending yourself is no longer a hostile action [15d]
• 007 First Light's James Bond (probably) won't be a sexist, misogynist dinosaur: 'Some things fall by the wayside,' IO Interactive says [15d]
• Paralives is the very definition of early access, but it's already a promising Sims rival [15d]
• An AI speaker messed up and skipped the names of students at a college commencement ceremony and yes, there were many boos [15d]
• This indie dev's dungeon crawling 'descent into madness' was inspired by motherly love [15d]
• Devs, be careful what you plug in: GitHub security breach was apparently facilitated by a 'poisoned Visual Studio Code extension' [15d]
• As a former smoker, I'm asking gamedevs to please make an 'arachnophobia mode' but for cigarettes because I am barely hanging on here [15d]
• The best cars in Forza Horizon 6 for each race type [15d]
• Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core is a good roguelite shooter, but a little less special than the game that spawned it [15d]
• Web infrastructure company Cloudflare says Claude Mythos reasoning 'looks like the work of a senior researcher' [15d]
• Critical Role finally releases a full-scale map of Campaign 4's main city, and I'm deeply jealous to not have their personal cartographer at my table [15d]
• If gaming laptops are just too bulky for you and you're desperate to burn an enormous hole in your wallet, the new Asus ROG NUC is surely a vision of your dreams [15d]
• 'If engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just [want to] do three or four times more stuff': Google DeepMind CEO reckons AI-induced job cuts aren't inevitable [15d]
• Backrooms actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was surprised to find out the 30,000 square foot set is the first of its kind: 'I thought that somewhere it had been built before' [15d]
• Microsoft plans to launch a cheaper 8 GB Surface laptop later this year which won't meet the requirements of a Copilot+ PC [15d]
• The Mass Effect-like Exodus 'is effectively D&D in space,' Hasbro CEO says [15d]
• Embracer Group cuts itself into pieces, this is its last resort: Bifurcation, new listing—licensing out Kain and JC Denton [15d]
• Bhashiva's tiger warriors are an addition to Total War: Warhammer 3 worth the money and the wait [15d]
• Subnautica 2 devs have heard your 'strong request' for combat, but it's not going to happen: 'Subnautica has always been built around vulnerability, exploration, and survival' [15d]
• Tech leaker suggests that AMD has a Ryzen 7 7700X3D lined up in the wings but if the specs are correct, it'll need to be genuinely cheap to sell well [15d]
• Arc Raiders has added Denuvo anticheat 'initially to a limited player pool' after a successful rollout in The Finals [15d]
• 'AI Mode has been a revelation, our biggest upgrade to Search ever. People love it,' says Google CEO [15d]
• TSMC employees can now buy company-branded shoes modelled by CEO C.C. Wei, or a chip-themed rice cooker with a 'wafer-shaped steaming plate' [15d]
• Don't buy an Xbox controller when you can get one with drift-free TMR sticks, 8x the polling rate, and a charging stand for less at Amazon [15d]
• Herman Miller introduces its first ever desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive [15d]
• 81-year-old Minecraft streamer swatted while raising money for grandson's cancer treatment [15d]
• Final Fantasy 11 expected a 'sharp player decline' once the hype from the FF14 crossover and welcome back campaigns ended, but that never came [15d]
• Intel chief: 'In the past, we made a lot of mistakes... from day one I came on board as CEO, I have all the engineering report to me' [15d]
• Valorant gets Anti-Lag 2 but after testing it I don't think users with high-end AMD rigs should crack open the champagne [15d]
• The rumours were true: Kingdom Come 2 studio is working on an RPG set in Tolkien's Middle-earth [15d]
• Cairn revolutionizes bragging rights, lets you print a shirt showing your playthrough ascent from an in-game menu [16d]