The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• Legally distinct Pokémon and stinky customers: what keeps people coming back to the latest shop sim hit? [239d]
• Sega takes a moment of their valuable time to remind everyone that Sonic the Hedgehog is canonically a homeless drifter [239d]
• Rogue Prince of Persia overhauls art style and doubles game size in its biggest update yet [239d]
• BioWare's art director reveals eight pieces of decade-old concept art for the earliest version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard [239d]
• Overwatch: Classic has me reckoning with the fact that OG Overwatch kind of sucks, but also that Blizzard could learn a few lessons from it [239d]
• More people are playing Half-Life 2 now than at any point since Steam started keeping track [239d]
• Steamworld Dig developer lays off 80-100 employees and cancels some in-development games to ensure 'long-term sustainability and resilience' [239d]
• Valve is re-releasing Half-Life 2's 'Raising the Bar' art book after nearly 20 years out of print and adding new sections about all three HL2 episodes [239d]
• The PC Gamer 2024 Holiday Gift Guide [239d]
• Valve has released lost footage of Half-Life 2's earliest public demo from 2000, a missing link between HL1 and HL2 that already teased Episode 3's infamous Borealis [239d]
• Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was the best multiplayer mode ever, or maybe I just think that because it's the only one I was ever good at [239d]
• A War Of A Madman's Making is a quietly brilliant, totally free political sim where you have to try to survive as a deranged dictator's henchman [239d]
• From extensive lore-friendly research to diabolical wordplay: All the different ways we name our beloved videogame characters [239d]
• Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, November 16 [240d]
• Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would've included an ice gun with 'kind of like a Silver Surfer mode,' and Valve just released footage [240d]
• 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' [240d]
• Gabe Newell ponders the future in new Half-Life 2 documentary: 'I think that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers' [240d]