The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• 'Father of the Xbox' predicts the end following Phil Spencer's exit: The new CEO will be 'a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night' [11d]
• Amazon expected this co-op party game to draw in 100,000+ active players, but it hit an all-time peak of just 320 on Steam and now it's closing for good just 6 months after it launched [11d]
• I've already played the demo of this co-op pirate survival game for 7 hours, but the boisterous sea shanties my crew sings keep me coming back for more [11d]
• The latest Steam Next Fest features a pile of Palworld-likes as witches and airships battle over the creature-collecting survival subgenre [11d]
• There's still no word on a Nier 3, but series mastermind Yoko Taro is writing a new Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series [12d]
• Steam Next Fest is back and you've once again got just 7 days to find your favorite demos among hundreds of choices [12d]
• Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag creative director returns to help 'steer the brand’s ambitious new chapter' [12d]
• Rejoice: Arc Raiders is getting beards [12d]
• The new Arc Raiders robot dropping tomorrow is actually two new robots: a 'flying nightmare' flame drone and a meaner Pop [12d]
• Todd Howard says AI's 'not a fad' but 'we're not using it to generate anything… that handcrafted human intention, is what makes things special, and that's where we want to be' [12d]
• Krafton's new chief AI officer says the company 'uses AI as a tool to amplify human imagination and creativity, not replace it' 3 months after it announced a hiring freeze and launched a voluntary resignation programme [12d]