The Brutalist Report

This narrative thriller takes place in a fictional '80s OS, and the devs obsessed over keeping just the right amount of old school jank: 'We did retain the dial-up modem' [7m]
FromSoft leans into the nu-metal vibes and goes full Evanescence with the Elden Ring Nightreign launch trailer [7m]
'The absolute sincere truth is that I don't want anyone to pay any more than they should or are comfortable with': Randy Pitchford's latest post on the Borderlands pricing controversy is a whole dang essay [1h]
Arc Raiders: All the key details on the most exciting extraction shooter of 2025 [1h]
If you're 'scared of PvP', don't worry: Dune: Awakening's endgame deep desert area has a PvE zone, too [3h]
MindsEye co-CEO claims there's a 'concerted effort' to trash the game ahead of its release: 'I do KNOW that there are bot farms posting negative comments and dislikes' [3h]
To A T review [4h]
'Nightreign is a weird one': Elden Ring Nightreign promises to be a divisive spinoff as reviewers say it's both 'deeply satisfying' and a 'frustrating slog' [4h]
Electronic Arts cancels Black Panther game and closes the studio making it [5h]
Someone found Skyrim's most relatable NPC: A dude with no possessions who just sleeps all day, every day [7h]
Cyberpunk 2, which is now officially called Cyberpunk 2, has entered pre-production, but don't expect it out before 2030 [8h]
Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him 'ammunition' to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat [8h]
AMD's exciting new mainstream RX 9060 XT GPU spotted in online benchmarks as June 5 launch day fast approaches [8h]
Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 3 review [8h]
Grub's up: The hungry, hungry Necrophage faction is coming to Endless Legend 2 [8h]
Listening to Google's CEO talking about what about the future of AI holds just reinforces the fact that nobody can know what the future of AI holds [9h]
Yuri Lowenthal spills the beans on a Persona 4 remake by announcing that Atlus doesn't want him in it: 'Maybe I even begged, but they don’t want me to come back' [9h]
Rejoice, hammer users—Monster Hunter Wild's new patch just buffed the bonk squad, alongside a huge quality-of-life feature for hoarders and optimisation improvements on PC [9h]
Computex 2025 showed that innovation in PC hardware often involves sticking a screen on something but don't let that distract you from the genuine improvements underneath [10h]
Windows pack-in classic Space Cadet Pinball has been unofficially ported to Android devices—and it's free [10h]
Massive Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt couldn't be less worried about Bethesda going for an Oblivion-style remaster: 'Modernising Morrowind would just ruin the game entirely' [10h]
Elden Ring Nightreign review [11h]
Elden Ring Nightreign PC performance analysis: A bare-bones console port with glitches a-plenty [11h]
Samsung's new Peltier cooling tech is more efficient and less wasteful and could be a great for keeping a power-hungry CPU chilly [11h]
China has held the world's first robot martial arts tournament and I can't think of a single thing that could possibly go wrong [11h]
World of Warcraft Classic returns to Mists of Pandaria this July—marking a chance to return to the beloved expansion without the gulp frog melodrama [11h]
Discord asks users to ponder its Orbs, an earnable currency you can use to buy Nitro [12h]
The latest Fantasy Life sold over half a million copies only three days after launch, so maybe they finally made a good one [12h]
Ex-Dragon Age lead hopes Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 pulls an 'Expedition 33 or Baldur's Gate 3' by leaning into the combat-light, roleplaying-heavy gameplay of the tabletop version [13h]
As US tariff uncertainty continues, Nvidia's RTX 5090 dips under MSRP in the UK and EU [13h]
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sells 3.3 million copies in 33 days, in case you needed any more evidence we're living in a simulation [14h]
A new farming sim has entered the ring, except you're a cowboy on a ranch and you have shootouts with bandits and rob trains [14h]
Honkai: Star Rail Archer materials and kit [14h]
ASRock acknowledges and explains dying AMD 9000-series chips in its motherboards, rolls out a BIOS fix [14h]
The 'most powerful creature in the game' is about to be unleashed into Lethal Company as part of its first update in months [15h]
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