The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• The Mortal Shell 2 open beta was downloaded 250,000 times over the weekend [29m]
• Legendary JRPG studio's 23-year shun of the PC has ended: the next Vanillaware game will come to Steam [52m]
• Donald Duck has five fingers in official art for Kingdom Hearts Collection, and that is definitely not right [1h]
• 'The curse of MIXED is broken:' Suda51 & Swery65's Hotel Barcelona claws its way to 'Mostly Positive' on Steam after Hail Mary patch and scrubbing AI assets [2h]
• Everything we know about Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, the Remake trilogy's last act [3h]
• Destiny 2 goes out as God intended: Amidst absurd streamer drama featuring four content creators, an esports org, a boutique PC maker, an ex-NFL star, and $180,000 [3h]
• Destiny 2's final update crushes the Steam concurrents peak hit by last year's Edge of Fate expansion [3h]
• Path of Exile 2 player willingly deletes level 100 character to become world first martyr, buffing everyone in the game: 'That was the coolest thing I've seen in a videogame in a very long time' [3h]
• One day before launch, extraction shooter Sand gets delayed again—oh, and it's an early access game now, too [4h]
• Nobody can tell if Overwatch's 52nd hero is supposed to be a robot or a human, but we won't have to wait long to find out [5h]
• The Elder Scrolls Online is now Steam Deck Verified after 2 years of tweaking [5h]
• Secretlab's new Atlas chair is cheaper, slimmer than the Titan Evo and I've been sitting comfortably in it for the past couple days [6h]
• I was roasted by a physician for sitting weird but they gave me some great tips for healthier gaming [6h]
• Secretlab's CEO is getting tough on copycat chairs and doesn't feel pressure to adopt AI: 'If we were owned by outside investors, you can bet that AI will be somehow jammed down our throats' [6h]
• Surely FromSoftware has something brewing besides that Switch 2 exclusive, right? [6h]
• Best Amazon Prime Day keyboard, mouse and controller deals - get your hands on these discounted peripherals [7h]
• 'The thing that gives me hope is there is an enormous amount of capacity being built' - AMD's head of Ryzen and Radeon is pinning hopes of an end to the memory crisis on a supply ramp into 2028 [7h]
• 2026 is shaping up to be one of the worst years ever for new graphics cards as Nvidia's RTX 50 Super Series refresh rumoured to be pushed out to 2027 [7h]
• Kingdom Hearts 4 shows first signs of life after 4 years of radio silence [7h]
• KTC M27T6S review [7h]
• Koorui 34E6UC review [7h]
• Tech leaker claims that the RTX 50 Super refresh is still on, despite the RAMpocalypse, and it'll be joined by a 12 GB RTX 5060 [8h]
• Halo Campaign Evolved: Everything we know about Master Chief's glow-up [8h]
• We got our eyes and noses on a new PC case with a magnetic essential oils diffuser to make your gaming den smell less like a gaming den [9h]
• Father's Day is fast approaching, so I've picked out 12 awesome gift ideas for gaming dads without a single pair of socks to be found [9h]
• Gabe Newell's racecar driver son Gray Newell to compete in 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race [9h]
• Stars Reach could be the second coming of the sandbox MMO, with player-built cities and 40+ Star Wars Galaxies-style professions to give me hope [9h]
• New rumour claims with '100%' confidence that AMD's next-gen Zen 6 desktop CPU will run at over 6.5 GHz [9h]
• We all know Arc Raiders' loot chase is broken—but this creator proved how bad the duping exploits and cheating really are [9h]
• After 3,000 hours spent in Total War: Warhammer, 40k's gameplay reveal has me convinced this one might genuinely end me [10h]
• Intel adds 7 more games to its IBOT-boosted list, though few of them stand out as being in dire need of more CPU horsepower [10h]
• Google reportedly orders at least three million chips from Intel to arrive in 2028, as TSMC struggles to keep up with the AI boom [11h]
• Apple's virtual Siri-ball is a glowing reminder to Google and Microsoft that user interfaces really matter in software [12h]
• Destiny 2's final update — live coverage of the end of an era [12h]
• Destiny 2's final update — live coverage of the end of an era [12h]
• AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs not out until late 2027 or even early 2028 according to new report citing graphics card makers at Computex [12h]
• Guild Wars 3 won't have a 'battle pass fee buried in it', says studio head: 'We're not gonna hold their time hostage' [13h]
• Best Amazon Prime Day gaming laptop deals: I'm finding the best prices on your next mobile gaming machine [13h]
• There's a wildly obscure easter egg in Lego Batman, I'm surprised anyone found it: it's hidden in BASIC code for the Commodore 64 [13h]
• You should back up your Forza Horizon 6 save before its latest bug brings you to tears [13h]
• Before Obsession, Inde Navarrette was streaming her Call of Duty killstreaks with the type of unbothered grace I can only dream of [23h]
• Everything we know about Guild Wars 3 and how it plans to 'push the MMORPG genre forward' [23h]