The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• The producer of the new Mortal Kombat film is annoyed that film reviewers are appraising it as a film [28d]
• Indie publisher New Blood has listened to over 1,000 voicemails left on its old-school tip line, including suggestions like 'you ever think about making a game where you fight bugs?' [28d]
• GameStop-eBay saga gets weirder: CEO says he was suspended from eBay for selling stuff on eBay 'to pay for eBay' [29d]
• Path of Exile 2's 'biggest expansion ever' reworks its entire post-campaign grind for new and returning players alike [29d]
• Path of Exile 2's massive Return of the Ancients expansion will be its last major update before it leaves early access later this year: 'I want to get this game finished, I really, really do' [29d]
• One guy broke 2 different Fallout 4 speedrun world records 9 times in 2 months [29d]
• A Grok chatbot convinced someone it had become sentient, and that xAI was sending goons to kill him: 'They're going to make it look like suicide' [29d]
• The artist who created 40 in-game paintings for Minecraft did one of Jack Black as Steve for Minecraft Movie 2, and it's pretty fantastic [29d]
• The gacha in Neverness to Everness isn't as generous as it seems—here's how it works and why I've been more tempted to pull banners than ever [29d]
• The gacha in Neverness to Everness isn't as generous as it seems—here's how it works and why I've been more tempted to pull banners than ever [29d]
• It's time to set the record straight: Doomguy's armor does not have a tummy window, his shirt just got ripped [29d]
• One mad modder got the entirety of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind running on Fallout 4's in-game Pip-Boy [29d]
• This bloody vampire FPS with Splatoon movement tech is the best $5 I've spent on Steam this week [29d]
• Steam Controllers to come back in stock with reprise of Steam Deck reservation system [29d]
• Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is coming this summer, now with more marines and a 'massive variety of new xenomorphs' to slice 'em up [29d]
• Indie shooter devs pull a reverse-Concord: No one played their game, but they 'make it free to play and keep the servers online indefinitely' anyway [29d]
• Some pro gamers change mouse pads every few months, and that makes me wonder how often I should change mine [29d]
• Warhorse's new creative director tells us why the secret sauce for Kingdom Come Deliverance is making things difficult for players: 'The usual answer is OK let's get rid of the friction—We don't work like that' [29d]
• Despite Gothic Remake's glow-up, it's still the scrappy eurojank RPG it always was, and that's fine with me [29d]
• Forza Horizon 6 car list: All the vehicles confirmed so far [29d]
• People are shaming a Redditor for not emptying their 300 GB recycle bin and I realised mine is just as bad [29d]
• Everything you need to know about Stranger Than Heaven, the half-century-spanning Yakuza series prequel [29d]
• Microsoft reiterates that it's totally fine with Edge storing passwords in cleartext, despite security researchers' concerns [29d]
• Old School RuneScape needs 'to do a bunch of work to stop the game exploding soon', as a problem from 2018 rears its ugly head [29d]
• How to tame the Hyacinth Macaw in Crimson Desert [29d]
• SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni review [29d]
• Zowie XL2586X+ 600 Hz review [29d]
• Morrowind in Elden Ring mod makes mindblowing progress in video 'dedicated to that one guy that commented this project was not going to come out' [29d]
• Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore [29d]
• 47% of PC Gamer readers prove to be sensible upgraders, but 3% of you are sickos who will start looking for your next upgrade straight away [29d]
• The Nintendo Switch 2 could see a $50-100 price hike says report as pesky investors complain about the launch price [29d]
• Google isn't scanning your Gmail to train Gemini, it's letting Gemini scan your inbox to provide 'personalized insights' but I'm not sure that's better [29d]
• Atari just bought the rights to the big daddy of PC RPGs, and a reissue campaign is afoot [29d]
• With a peak player count of 14.2 million, 99 Nights in the Forest has an audience other multiplayer games would kill for: 'To find these behemoth playerbases you need to be on a platform like Roblox' [29d]
• My most-anticipated but frequently delayed Zelda-like is finally releasing later this month after 6 years in development [29d]
• Are you a real Sims series scholar? Put those decades of playing The Sims to the test with a quick round of trivia made for lifelong simmers [29d]