The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• Hand-drawn cat railway game Short Trip is coming to Steam [142d]
• Diablo 4 expansion's game director refuses to back down on the dungeon you can't enter unless you do it multiplayer: 'I absolutely am sticking to my guns' [142d]
• 'It’s been a little sad to see Haunted Chocolatier getting dusty on the shelf, but this is the reality of my situation,' Eric Barone says: 'Stardew Valley is a big and popular game' [142d]
• Get Doom, Prey, System Shock, Dark Forces, and all the Crysis games for less than $20 in this really good Humble Bundle [142d]
• Every game, trailer, and announcement in the 2024 PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted [142d]
• Civilization 7 is officially 2025's Most Wanted PC game, and creative director told us how he’s going to get you to finally finish a Civ campaign [142d]
• Monster Hunter Wilds art director says Capcom's hoping 'those who became interested in World can truly become fans of the franchise' as certified Monster Hunter sickos [142d]
• Fire off rounds and roundhouse kicks in cinematic brawler Spine – This is Gun Fu [142d]
• Total Chaos mutates from a Doom mod into one of next summer’s most promising survival horror chillers [142d]
• Celtic CRPG Legends of Awen: Rise of the Fianna tells a story about telling storytellers, hoping you'll toss it a coin next year [142d]
• Empyreal is an upcoming action RPG about carving through a giant monolith full of bad guys on your way to transcendental revelation [142d]
• Fantasy shopkeep simulator Merchants of Rosewall is releasing in March, so I can finally live out my dream of selling magical goods to innocent bystanders [142d]
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is arriving one week early, as its story trailer heralds an age of gunpowder, bloody war, and lots of medieval ultraviolence [142d]
• Watch Avowed's director set a new speed record for answering our questions about Obsidian's upcoming RPG [143d]
• 'Healing is messy, and it is bitter': The Stanley Parable's creator has used his newest game as an outlet to explore his own burnout [143d]
• I’m so ready to embrace vehicle-swapping Mad Max carnage in Drivers of the Apocalypse [143d]
• Hell Clock explores Brazil’s blood-soaked history in Diablo-like ARPG style [143d]
• Here's a colorful medieval city builder that focuses on procedural designs and organic districts [143d]
• Copa City is the first football game that's all about managing the crowds and event itself, rather than the on-pitch action [143d]
• Japanese hip-hop, biopunk weirdness and martial arts abound in the Hotline Miami inspired Sonokuni [143d]
• Island of Winds is a folkloric adventure where you meet the grim desolation and strange creatures of 17th century Iceland with witchy powers and 'empathy encounters' [143d]
• Steel Seed is coming to remind us why robots are a classic videogame enemy [143d]
• Wild Tactics throws gritty anthropomorphic animals into a world of noir tactics [143d]
• Let's Build A Dungeon is an intricate sim where you design the MMO of your dreams, then decide whether to toss it all out the window to keep players and shareholders happy [143d]
• With Descenders Next, the primal videogame pleasure of going really fast down hills has been honed to near perfection [143d]
• The Thing: Remastered comes to the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted with a surprise announcement—it's out right now [143d]
• Build your dystopian corporate HQ and take tactical control of mercenaries in Aquametsis [143d]
• Sci-fi base-building game The Alters turns Man vs Self into something else entirely, and its demo is back for a limited time [143d]
• Make your fortress the last castle as Age of Darkness: Final Stand's hordes rush to a full release—with multiplayer [143d]
• 4v4v4 tactical shooter Alara Prime announces early 2025 alpha playtest [143d]
• Vice Undercover imagines an alternate past where '80s drug lords had the internet, so obviously you've gotta hack 'em [143d]
• Former Dragon Age vet's debut RPG, Eternal Strands, gets a release date—and will star Baldur's Gate 3 narrator Amelia Tyler as a dulcet, ominous voice of evil [143d]
• Tempest Rising is a modern take on Command & Conquer you probably know you want [143d]
• Fancy a Stalker/XCOM mashup that has you putting down the enemies of a tyrannical dictator? Chains of Freedom has you covered [143d]
• Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream pairs prestige TV drama aesthetics with the soul of Commandos [143d]
• Atomfall is basically British Fallout with a metal detector, and that'll do me chuck [143d]
• My favorite game of 2024, Blue Prince, finally has a release window… in 2025 [143d]
• Darkwater plumbs the ocean’s depths and finds a mutant hybrid of Lethal Company and FTL [143d]
• Enter the Chronosphere is a super-creative roguelike/strategy game where time only moves when you move, and you can try the open beta now [143d]
• Watch an innocent oil worker get a high-speed gank in the debut trailer for Ready or Not's next DLC [143d]
• Tears of Metal looks like a medieval Dynasty Warriors with a roguelike knife twist, and it’s headed to Steam next year [143d]
• Wizard of Legend 2, one of this year's most under-the-radar roguelites, is getting a chonky update next week [143d]
• Deepest Fear is underwater 'immersive sim horror' where enemies hide in every drop of water [143d]
• Robots at Midnight is a futuristic take on soulslikes where a bunch of murderous automatons are threatening to kill you [143d]
• The Outlast Trials' new content update gets a December release date and spooky new story trailer [143d]
• The next major update for Half-Life-meets-survival-game Abiotic Factor looks absolutely massive [143d]
• A games tester is trapped in a nightmare VR experience run by an AI in sci-fi horror game AILA [143d]
• Mekkablood: Quarry Assault gears up for a January launch with some clean mech combat & a filthy cockpit [143d]
• Raise your very own spooky settlement with Super Fantasy Kingdom's necrotic new faction [143d]
• New Menace trailer shows off the sci-fi skirmishes that the Battle Brothers creators are making next [143d]
• MainFrames is a nostalgic PC platformer where you're just a little byte [143d]
• Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap shows off a January release date and details its roguelite facelift [143d]
• This 'brinepunk' 4-player co-op shooter has some of the coolest guns I've seen in ages, and its first alpha test starts Friday [143d]
• PlayerUnknown's survival game Prologue will hit early access in the first half of 2025 [143d]
• PUBG creator Brendan Greene just released a free tech demo of his new game engine on Steam that lets you play with 'an Earth-scale world generated in real-time' [143d]
• Tombwater is a cowboy soulslike set in a mysterious cursed town that has an 'eldritch influence permeating everything' [143d]
• The Legend of Baboo makes me feel just as warm and fuzzy as its heroic pup looks [143d]
• EVE Frontier 'is not really a blockchain game, no more than EVE is a database game:' CCP hopes you'll give crypto a chance for a space sim with tactical combat 'bordering on survival horror' [143d]
• Citizen Sleeper 2 will be out in January and 'really emphasize the mechanical aspects of the roleplaying' as an android dealing with a constantly decaying body [143d]
• Caves of Qud is leaving Early Access (and Earth’s gravity) in this poetic new launch trailer [143d]
• The reveal trailer for SpaceCraft doesn't give much away, but it has made me curious about intergalactic travel [143d]
• Revenge of the Savage Planet’s bizarre new trailer teases May release, home decor, and lots of goo [143d]
• Starlight Re:Volver is a roguelike action RPG disguised as a high-octane anime opening, and it's dropping next year [143d]
• Killing Floor 3 is bringing back its fireball-hurling mecha zombies, and now they have jetpacks [143d]
• 'Survival-climber' Cairn just dropped a demo so you can go hands-on with the insurmountable Mount Kami [143d]
• Money is the key to happiness (and a pet god) in greedy city builder Gold Gold Adventure Gold [143d]
• Mohrta is now one of my must-plays for 2025: A surreal, striking FPS that somehow got soulslike levels and bosses working on the Doom engine [143d]
• Sol Mates brings its own spacefaring flavor to the Overcooked formula in early access next year [143d]
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown trots out its turn-based tabletop tussles [143d]
• Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault reopens the RPG shop in 2025 with a new look [143d]
• Rogue Eclipse joins a procedurally generated campaign for Star Fox’s contested crown [143d]
• I’ve half a mind to try Henry Halfhead when it releases in 2025 after seeing its newest trailer [143d]
• Craftlings looks to occupy some beautiful place between Terraria and Lemmings [143d]
• Path of Exile 2 early access unlock times [143d]
• This mod puts Wordle on all the hacking terminals in Fallout: New Vegas, and even gives you XP for guessing the words right [143d]
• Fallout: London, the DLC-sized Fallout 4 mod, is getting DLC of its own [143d]
• Shifting corporate priorities, Superalignment, and safeguarding humanity: Why OpenAI's safety researchers keep leaving [143d]
• Caves of Qud review [143d]
• Trend Watch: The 5 biggest gaming trends right now [143d]
• Intel's interim CEO suggests Gelsinger's replacement should have chip fabrication experience, giving a glimmer of hope that Intel foundry could remain [143d]
• Jean-Claude Van Damme is coming to Hitman, and you better believe he's doing splits all over the place [143d]
• Marvel Rivals players will be able to complete the luxury battle pass even after the season ends which is music to my busy ears [143d]
• The best solo board games [143d]
• Charity event Jingle Jam is off to a lively start, raising £750,000 in a day with just under 2 weeks to go—plus, you can get 18 very good games if you donate £35 [143d]
• I really want to believe Intel's claim that the drivers for its new Arc B580 1440p graphics card suffer from 'no known issues of any kind' [143d]
• Dungeon Clawler's early access is quickly becoming one of my favourite roguelikes, even as I get dunked on repeatedly by the cruel claw of fate [143d]
• Former Blizzard president thinks Marvel Rivals is a rip-off of Overwatch and that Black Widow is a copy of Widowmaker, or maybe he's joking—it's impossible to tell [143d]
• Microsoft says 64 GB is the 'ideal spec' for Flight Simulator 2024 but I've tested it with 96 GB, and it makes a big difference [143d]
• Valve's new 'Powered by SteamOS' branding has been unveiled, but it's more about clawing handhelds away from Windows than it is about new desktop Steam Machines [143d]
• There was a Lego James Bond pitch that never got made, presumably because of all the murder and sex involved with James Bond [143d]
• Intel just launched a brand new gaming graphics architecture but it has already designed a new generation of GPUs and it's working on the generation after that [143d]
• The current and future Resonance banners in Infinity Nikki [143d]
• Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is gone but will Intel's chip fabs follow him out the door? [143d]
• Zotac Zone review [143d]
• Tiny indie studio realises someone is selling its free games for $100+ on eBay and is totally stoked: 'We're a real developer now' it declares, adding an 'in your face!' to a homebrew convention that rejected them [143d]
• 'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action [143d]
• You can now order a real deck of Balatro cards, which is good because that game's still all I think about [143d]
• Marvel Rivals Season 0 launch times and release date [143d]
• 'It was only in review builds for leak precautions': Bethesda squashes rumours that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has Denuvo DRM [143d]
• PC Gamer magazine's special new issue is on sale now: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 [143d]