The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• Pearl Abyss marketing director says Crimson Desert's rapid 'live service' patch cadence is business as usual for an MMO studio: 'That is not normal in the industry. That is normal here' [26d]
• Fallout co-creator Tim Cain once proposed a first-person time-travel RPG where you could assassinate historical figures and create paradoxes [26d]
• Final Fantasy 14 player harnesses the power of furniture slots to make their in-game house look like Pragmata [26d]
• Double Fine is the latest team at Microsoft to unionize [27d]
• Debate: Is turn-based or real-time-with-pause better for CRPGs? [27d]
• Discussion time: Are classic tab-target MMOs with loads of keybinds going out of style? [27d]
• How a trio of Canadian modders stumbled into making an official Die Hard game: 'I've had projects disappear that had 10 times the promise that this did' [27d]
• Can you identify 10 games I've turned into pixelated messes? [27d]
• Gaussian Splatting is my new favourite thing, so I hassled an ex-Epic artist to tell me everything he knows about the low-cost 'photo-real' rendering technique [27d]
• Europa Universalis 5's 'biggest update yet' expands the Balkans, overhauls the economy, and fixes more than 2,000 bugs [27d]
• Abiotic Factor just got another massive update that adds better pets, a ludicrously involved chemistry system, and most importantly, a mop for cleaning up all your failed experiments [27d]
• This very normal Half-Life mod lets you play as 'queen of spacetime' Max Caulfield, and it's convinced me that the next Life is Strange should be a full-on boomer shooter [27d]
• Conan Exiles whips out a massive Unreal Engine 5 upgrade that includes an 'enhanced endowment slider' to further improve player penises [27d]