The Brutalist Report - gaming
- Playing Slay the Spire 2 and Esoteric Ebb on my ROG Ally all weekend turned me into a happy lump of swaddled gamer joy [1h]
- Valve facing second, class-action lawsuit over loot boxes [2h]
- 3 months after revealing his debut project at The Game Awards, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi loses NetEase funding for his studio [2h]
- Bungie snuck a bunch of Halo guns into Marathon [3h]
- Blizzard wants Diablo 4's outrageous damage numbers to mean something again in Lord of Hatred, so it's letting you crank the difficulty up to near-impossible levels: 'It's going to be really f*cking hard' [4h]
- Steam game listing achieves knockoff singularity by aping Pokémon, Zelda, and even Overwatch designs with a shamelessness Palworld could only dream of [4h]
- Valve says Steam users downloaded 100 exabytes of games in 2025, and are averaging 274 petabytes of installs and updates every day [5h]
- One of my favorite Daedalic point-and-click adventures is free on Steam, and a pile of others have been marked way down [5h]
- Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually [5h]
- If you miss the old NBA Jam games, this new Harlem Globetrotters game looks like a slam dunk [6h]
- Microsoft's CEO insists that Xbox, 'at its best, lifts the entire company' and that it will 'always' invest in gaming [6h]
- Samsung's new 1440p gaming monitor sports a ridiculous 600 Hz refresh rate but that's nothing compared to the 1040 Hz it can do in 1080p mode [6h]
- Battlefield 6 was 'the biggest launch in franchise history.' 6 months later, EA is laying off people who made it [6h]
- Mode claims its upcoming Encore keyboard refresh 'delivers our most satisfying typing experience to date' and has a neat new mounting system to boot [6h]
- Cyberpunk 2077 redemption complete: You can now literally crap yourself to death with an alarmingly well-thought-out mod [6h]
- Marvel Rivals is enacting 'Victim Compensation Protocol' for everyone who has been negatively affected by the incentivised throwing epidemic: 'The system will automatically restore lost points' [7h]
- Bungie has learned its lesson about vaulting content in Destiny 2 and won't be so cruel with Marathon: 'It doesn't matter when you join' [7h]
- This creator shoved a Framework inside of a 2006 MacBook: 'A reimagined classic, that's only a little bit janky' [8h]
- Modder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine' [8h]
- Oh no: You can attach claymores to Thief's drones in Marathon, and it's just as hellish as it sounds [8h]
- Master Chief voice actor demands White House remove his voice from 'disgusting and juvenile war porn' video [8h]
- Counter-Strike's 'X-ray scanner' for loot containers is coming to Germany later this month [8h]
- I've somehow created Cthulu's own cursed Wingdings with this vibe-coded tool that promises to create fonts from your own handwriting [8h]
- Still humming with life 21 years later, Konami's Master of Epic is a wonderful time capsule of the experimental early MMORPG era [8h]
- Banquet For Fools is a CRPG like no other and the most interesting thing I've played this year, and between it and Esoteric Ebb, roleplaying fans are eating great right now [9h]
- Slay the Spire 2 dev hates microtransactions, even though players would definitely pay for them: 'A lot of our players threaten to buy all and any cosmetics we may ever release' [9h]
- Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection review [9h]
- Players have rallied together to solve the first stage of Marathon's elaborate Cryo Archive ARG puzzle, and it's revealed some creepy footage of the next map [9h]
- A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't' [10h]
- This RTX 5070 gaming PC packs 2 TB SSD storage and 32 GB speedy memory for a genuinely reasonable price in this great RAMpocalypse [10h]
- OpenAI hardware leader resigns over concerns about 'surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization' [10h]
- A simple check with a magnet was the final clue that made Thermal Grizzly realise it had been hit by a 40,000 euro metal scam [11h]
- An hour of puzzle-solving in the quirky world of Big Walk is the most fun I've had in co-op in ages [11h]
- You can play Big Walk before launch, but only if you take a big walk to the publisher's office to play it in person [11h]
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