The Brutalist Report - pcgamer
- Call of Duty could learn a thing or two from Battlefield 6's smallest map [7d]
- FMV dating sims are booming in Asia, inspired in part by 'micro-dramas' popular on TikTok: 'It's not actually real life, but it feels like real life' [7d]
- Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won't handle games that use generative AI: 'We don't believe in it' [7d]
- This minimalist platformer's mouseclick parkour is singlehandedly curing my 2D platformer phobia [7d]
- All Anarch Tag locations in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 [7d]
- The Sinking City 2 is delayed into 2026 because of the war in Ukraine, but not just that: Making a survival horror game requires 'a completely different kind of design thinking' than adventure games, and that 'definitely makes development slower' [7d]
- 'Controller players are winning slightly more in close-range engagements': Treyarch throws a live grenade into 'controller vs mouse' debate, says aim assist will be less forgiving in Black Ops 7 [7d]
- Where to find Rampaging Scavengers in Escape From Duckov to complete the Hunter's Path quest [7d]
- How to save in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 [7d]
- Battlefield 6 officially nerfs XP farming servers into the ground, draining them of nearly all XP [7d]
- Former Bethesda designer says Starfield fell flat because of its reliance on procgen planets: 'I don't think it's in the same calibre as the other two, Fallout or Skyrim' [7d]
- RPGs make up more than 30% of PC Gamer's Top 100, so clearly we've settled on a favourite genre [7d]
- Starbreeze hands off Payday 2 to another developer as it goes all-in on trying to salvage the beleaguered Payday 3 [7d]
- The best gaming laptops we've reviewed in 2025 so far [7d]
- The Wolverine V3 Pro is no longer the best high-end PC gamepad, because Razer's been indulging in some seriously rabid regicide [7d]
- MSI MEG Z890 Ace review [7d]
- It's way easier to extract in Escape From Duckov than your map would have you believe [7d]
- 'The freedom we have with this sci-fi space is a bit terrifying': upcoming FPS Den of Wolves is laid bare in a new studio documentary [7d]
- This €130 gaming PC in a plastic jug churns out a whole 15 fps in Fortnite and might be the best/worst DIY build I've ever seen [7d]
- Reports of OLED's death are greatly exaggerated and it's not about to be replaced by RGB mini-LED displays [7d]
- The ROG Xbox Ally X seems surprisingly repairable and upgradeable judging by iFixit's teardown video, which could be good news for stick drift [7d]
- Wikipedia says it's getting fewer 'human pageviews' thanks to AI and social media but it's got a plan to deal with it [7d]
- Former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024 [7d]
- Brace yourself for yassified Homer Simpson as leaks say an entire Springfield map is headed for Fortnite [7d]
- Estimates on the financial impact of yesterday's AWS outage range from 'hundreds of billions' to over $75 million per hour, but one thing we can all agree on is it was pretty bad, chief [7d]
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 lets you unlock 24 fancy outfits, so here's my entirely objective ranking, as an expert on wearing clothes [7d]
- Jackbox Party Pack 11 is the first to not include sequels to earlier Jackbox games, but there's still plenty of familiar DNA in the all-new offerings [7d]
- Turns out Little Nightmares wasn't scary, Tarsier Studios was saving the horrors for the demo of Reanimal [7d]
- AMD's dual V-Cache uber CPU gets a (rumoured) name and a high-clocked single-die cousin: Give it up for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D [7d]
- MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi review [7d]
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's sidequests are terrible, but you can safely skip them all [7d]
- How to find romance in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 [7d]
- Congratulations to Victoria 3 players on causing 860,000,000,000,000,000 deaths by famine in a single year, enough to depopulate Earth 107,000,000 times [7d]
- AdHoc and Critical Role's superhero comedy Dispatch cuts right to the best bits of Telltale's greatest games [7d]
- Our old friend the RTX 5070 Ti MSI Vector is still $1,500 after Prime Day, making it the best gaming laptop deal I can find right now by some margin [7d]
- Ball-bouncing, city-building, off-the-wall roguelike Ball X Pit is a huge hit, selling 300,000 copies in just its first five days on sale [7d]
- This new Humble Bundle has one of my favourite TTRPGs in it, alongside a bunch of expansions, for just $15—or $25 for a nest of great Magpie Games books worth $365 [7d]
- This utterly mesmerising beehive PC desk build took six months of painstaking labour and hypnotically simulates the bittersweet rise and fall of bee colonies in real time [7d]
- Morrowind mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt is adding 'one of the holy grails' that players have wanted 'for more than 20 years' in its next mammoth expansion [7d]
- Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro says 'nearly half' of his autographs 'being resold are actually fake', since he puts 'small unknown features' in them [7d]
- The first US-made Nvidia Blackwell wafer just came out of TSMC Arizona, but don't get carried away thinking about RTX 50 Supers yet [7d]
- 8BitDo Retro R8 review [7d]
- All Playground Basketball codes for October 2025: coins [7d]
- The best modern platformer I've played is getting a huge 10-year anniversary update, and the devs reckon there's 'no way anyone 100%s it' [8d]
- Former God of War boss says the blockbuster games industry needs to steer away from spectacle and focus on what matters: 'if it's not fun, it's not worth the investment' [8d]
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 21 (#1585) [8d]
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