The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• The ROG Zephyrus G14 is calling to me even more now it has an RTX 5080 stuffed inside it [490d]
• Private Division's 'games and franchises,' including Kerbal Space Program, are reportedly being taken over by former Annapurna Interactive employees [490d]
• Competitive shooters are at a crucial crossroads in 2025: 'sweaty' teamplay vs. casual fun [490d]
• Call of Duty's development budget ballooned by $250 million between 2015 and 2020 to an eye-watering $700 million [490d]
• Facebook and Instagram are ditching fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes system inspired by X: 'Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased,' Zuckerberg says [490d]
• Path of Exile player casually posts mind-blowing collection of ultra-rare and out-of-print items, including a ring there's only four copies of in the world [490d]
• This keyboard combines two of my favorite things: mechanical switches and bread [490d]
• I got hands on with the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld PC with Valve's SteamOS—and it seems like a bit of a winner to me [490d]
• Call of Duty's $28 Squid Game skins are the perfect crossover for our capitalist dystopia, and Activision knows exactly what it's doing [490d]
• 'We're extending the 6v6 playtest': The game director of Overwatch 2 stokes the flames that 6v6 will make an official comeback someday [490d]
• LG wants to turn your Smart TV into an Xbox, announces cloud gaming partnership with Microsoft [490d]
• An Elden Ring player has promised to fight Messmer every day with a new weapon until FromSoftware releases Elden Ring: Nightreign [490d]
• Corsair heard you like screens and PC cases so it made a new screen for your PC case that you can also use as a, er, screen [490d]
• Citizen Sleeper 2 will likely be the last in the series, though its creator plans to come full-circle with a TTRPG [490d]
• Nvidia RTX 50-series and dev kit show that rasterization is old news and we're now firmly in the era of AI rendering [490d]
• AMD might have told us little about its RDNA 4 graphics cards but at least we know the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT have 16 GB of VRAM [490d]
• Nvidia's impressive AI-based computer tuneup tool G-Assist launches next month but the best bit is missing [490d]
• 'New year, new low, Microsoft'—even the search engines are firing shots on social media now, as Google employees take aim at Bing over 'long history of tricks' [490d]
• Extraction MOBA Seekers of Skyveil will launch into early access in March, but first, the 'largest playtest' yet is coming later this week [490d]
• Logitech has announced an 'intelligent streaming assistant' in Streamlabs to tell you when your live stream sucks [490d]
• Uber-bright new OLED TVs from LG and Samsung should finally enable PC gaming monitors with full-screen brightness of up to 400 nits [490d]
• Tencent has been designated a Chinese military company by the US Department of Defense, which the conglomerate calls a 'misunderstanding' [490d]
• Razer blew hot and cold air down my neck and rumbled my posterior at CES 2025, and I liked it [490d]
• Intel on its next-gen laptop chip: "Panther Lake will take everything you love about Lunar Lake to the next level" [490d]
• Nvidia announces dedicated GeForce Now app for Steam Decks and more, streamlining cloud gaming for mixed-reality headset wearers too [490d]
• With its Prime and TUF Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards, Asus is ditching thermal paste for a thermal pad that melts when hot [490d]
• Razer has released a backseat gaming AI bot called Ava, and I'm not sure whether using it should be considered cheating or not [490d]
• PUBG teammates not good enough? Nvidia's new generative AI-led 'Co-Playable Character' aims to offer you an alternative [490d]
• AMD and Intel launch mainstream and budget motherboard chipsets at CES but some of the codenames are so similar that I've already mistaken them for each other [490d]
• Mister Fantastic will be Marvel Rivals' first duelist vanguard hybrid who can deflect Iron Man's ult and stun enemies into one another—in other words, he's busted [490d]