The Brutalist Report - gaming
- $900 million lawsuit accusing Steam of overcharging gamers in the UK and 'abusing a dominant market position' will proceed after Valve loses appeal against it [7m]
- North Korea's crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it's responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total [26m]
- The Midnight Walkers launch time and release date [1h]
- Highguard deserves a chance, so don't kill it out of spite [1h]
- New Vegas modder fixes one of those glaring issues you'll never un-see once you notice it: Your pooch pal doesn't have a sneaking animation [1h]
- Cryptic rises again? Former CEO Jack Emmert returns to the Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, and Champions Online studio: 'It was just meant to be' [1h]
- A professor lost two years of 'carefully structured academic work' in ChatGPT because of a single setting change: 'These tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability in mind' [2h]
- New report claims Samsung, SK Hynix and Sandisk are all planning to double the price of NAND memory chips this year [2h]
- Get ready to battle bruxae and swipe sorceresses in Reigns: The Witcher, out next month [2h]
- Nearly 20 years ago, the makers of Age of Empires tried to make a Halo MMO, and then the studio closed: 'I still feel like no-one has really done the action MMO I see in my mind' [2h]
- Arc Raiders' Headwinds update finally adds a new epic augment that lets you safely stow away your guns [2h]
- The Darkest Dungeon board game fiasco is finally over, and as expected it's ended in tears: 'Mythic Games is no longer able to manufacture or deliver' it, Red Hook says, so it's giving away the game files to all backers [2h]
- How to get Rusted Bolts in Arc Raiders [2h]
- ASRock and Cooler Master partner up for no real reason that I can make out but aw hey that's kind of cute [3h]
- DXRacer Martian XL review [3h]
- Redesigns for both Orgrimmar and Stormwind are on the table if World of Warcraft: Midnight's Silvermoon overhaul is well received [3h]
- Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary with an ominous warning about the impact of AI [3h]
- Highguard's output resolution is bizarrely tied to its post processing setting, which feels like a crunchy bug that needs squashing [3h]
- How to complete A Prime Specimen in Arc Raiders [3h]
- GOG owns up to its poor handling of Devotion's delisting in 2020: 'We acknowledge that this decision understandably damaged the trust our users have in us' [3h]
- Zotac claims the 'very survival of graphics card manufacturers' is at risk thanks to the state of the market right now [4h]
- Indie devs should avoid 'most indie publishers' says Manor Lords indie publisher Hooded Horse: 'The vast majority of indie publishers are predatory and opportunistic' [4h]
- Fallout 76's new Burning Springs update is packed with locations inspired by Amazon's Fallout season 2, so you don't have to just play New Vegas to keep the good times going [4h]
- I'm tired of running the same Fortnite loadout—both SMGs and snipers need a major buff [4h]
- Mozilla is looking for 'Pioneers' to come up with new tools for 'the next version of the web', which is open-source but of course centred around AI [5h]
- I've found a cheap RTX 5070 gaming laptop you'll actually want to buy, an increasingly rare thing in these uncertain times [6h]
- Open source Steam Controller-a-like is a beast with new screens and gyro controls: 'there's so much more I can add' says creator [6h]
- How to complete Movie Night in Arc Raiders [6h]
- Not content with utter GPU domination, Nvidia's new Vera chip is coming for CPUs though maybe not gaming CPUs just yet [7h]
- How to complete With a View in Arc Raiders [7h]
- Earth Must Die review [8h]
- Intel Panther Lake continues snapping up victories as the Forza Horizon 6 system requirements list the integrated Arc B390 GPU [8h]
- Deadlock's next character fan vote has been won by the littlest guy around, Rem: 'May god have mercy on us all' [9h]
- Instead of difficulty, Obsidian designer Josh Sawyer thinks in terms of 3 RPG player archetypes: 'What are they trying to get out of this game?' [15h]
- The cheapest way to buy Marathon for PC in Australia [16h]
- Highguard is fine when you don't have an internet in your ear telling you it's nasty [18h]
- Hytale update adds a new weapon for summoning undead hordes, but keep your early access expectations in check [18h]
- 'It's whack-a-mole of terror for the city you love:' Gaming channel MinnMax asks viewers to 'share what's happening to residents in Minneapolis, Minnesota when 3,000 ICE agents storm the city' [19h]
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time cancellation was 'the most devastating moment of my career,' actor says: 'It brought out what I honestly believe is the best performance of my career, and now nobody is ever going to see that' [20h]
- Hasbro is being sued by its own shareholders for printing so many damn Magic cards, 'destroying the long-term value of the brand' [20h]
- 15 years on, Dark Souls 1's best boss is nearly undefeated fighting Elden Ring's bosses, and one of his KOs definitely doesn't count [22h]
- The next Arc Raiders update adds Solo vs Squad matchmaking for PvP masochists and an exciting new map condition: Birds [22h]
- Check your Pip-Boy because the last two episodes of Fallout Season 2 are coming earlier than expected [22h]
- Ubisoft hopes 200 employees at its Paris HQ will agree to quit so it doesn't have to lay them off the regular way [22h]
- Microsoft says sure, it'll hand over your encrypted data to the FBI: 'The lesson here is that if you have access to keys, eventually law enforcement is going to come' [23h]
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