The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• Five new Steam games you probably missed (December 22, 2025) [66d]
• You might think reimagining Washington DC as a nuclear hellscape for Fallout 3 would have been grim, but it made the lead designer want to set the next game in his hometown: 'It's just kind of fun to blow things up' [66d]
• There's a Transformers XCOM-like on Steam, and it's on sale for 90% off before it gets delisted [66d]
• Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar's argument for authoritarianism 'was done a little too well,' but still believes 'you can't just make your tyrants cardboard villains' [66d]
• The process of creating cosplay from scratch is incredibly intimidating to me, but Emily White found a new love for it post-lockdown: 'It can take anywhere from a month to a year to bring a costume to life.' [66d]
• It's more important than ever to call out developers for egregious AI usage next year if we want videogames to remain interesting [66d]
• It's about time Final Fantasy 14 retires one of its most divisive, overused songs [66d]
• Indie Game Awards pulls two awards from Clair Obscur over generative AI use: 'We have a hard stance against gen AI in videogames' [66d]
• Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy shows off equal helpings of sleuthing and smashing in its new trailer, as its first playable alpha test goes live [66d]
• Elden Ring Nightreign is a deeply flawed multiplayer game I've spent over 250 hours in this year [66d]
• This dystopian free-running sim is set in a brutalist megacity is being codeveloped by one of the designers of last year's best FPS [66d]
• Dishonored co-creator says it was 'a shock' when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall's release: 'We were working on something really cool' [66d]
• Quake's third Brutalist Jam now has a whopping 75 maps, and its organiser is working on a hub to stitch them all together: 'this is going to be an insane challenge' [67d]