The Brutalist Report

The PC game releases we're most excited about in July [1h]
'Patient gaming' only gets more attractive when $70 games get heavy Steam sale discounts just months after launch [2h]
Death Stranding 2 is too damn easy [3h]
Destiny 2 just got weird: Launch trailer leans hard into time travel and looks more like a Control crossover [4h]
A new WoW event boosts ultra-rare item drop rates tenfold, which admittedly isn't a huge difference when the starting number is 0.5% [4h]
Hideo Kojima goes in hard on AI and is worried we'll all 'be unknowingly led into a predetermined lifestyle' [4h]
I'm diagnosing survivors of a zombie apocalypse and only occasionally mistaking cold symptoms for the zombie plague in this military base management sim [4h]
'It makes me cringe every time': 25 years after Diablo 2 reshaped the RPG landscape, Diablo creator David Brevik still thinks its stamina bar sucks [5h]
A 'big beautiful bill' provision to prevent states from regulating AI for 10 years got nixed by the US Senate [5h]
Palworld guide—Exploring the Terraria update, breeding combos, and crafting [6h]
Death Stranding 2's ending explained (to the extent humanly possible) [6h]
'Give me more of that': Monster Hunter Wilds players have discovered its returning monsters got hands, and they're thrilled to be getting clobbered [7h]
Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape' [8h]
Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam [8h]
Where to find the Terraria dungeon in Palworld, plus the new Pals and items you'll find inside [8h]
Phoenix and Blade headline the new Marvel Rivals season, and it starts next week [8h]
I played Elden Ring Nightreign for goofy co-op shenanigans, but wound up punched in my feelings by the Revenant's remembrance questline [8h]
'It took a while to get there, but now we feel we're in a good place': Fatshark's design director talks doing years of repair work on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide [9h]
My best friend is a gaming mouse: An ode to the finest rodent around, the Logitech G Pro X Superlight [10h]
Get an entire tabletop role-playing library for the price of one book, thanks to what might be the most impressive bundle of RPGs I've ever seen in my 22 years in the hobby [10h]
Nexus Mods will soon require age verification for UK and EU users looking for its treasure trove of adult mods [10h]
Deus Ex was a hard sell because, among other things, the Thief devs thought 'if you give players a gun, they won't sneak' [10h]
How to get Dragon Fruit in Grow a Garden [10h]
Fortnite's newest mode is a frantic dopamine machine that lives up to the hype—and I hope it's a new-player gateway to more considered battle royales [11h]
The US claims $81.5 billion bonus revenue from Trump tariffs but that's a drop in the ocean compared to its spending deficit [11h]
'Xbox hardware is dead' and 'there's literally no reason to buy' the ROG Xbox Ally handheld says founding member of the OG Xbox team [11h]
Commodore's been bought by a YouTuber who's re-assembling key execs and already teasing new hardware [11h]
How to get bees in Grow a Garden and what they do [12h]
Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis [12h]
Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it's a 'mistake' for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy 'sweaty boy' systems in favour of a 'one size fits all' game, since easier difficulties aren't too hard to make [12h]
Bing Bong is talking to you: Peak players are getting jump-scared by what seems to be the developers possessing a little green plushie [12h]
BG3 might be the last hurrah for the era of the Hexblade, as D&D's 2024 rules revamp tries to dethrone the king of multiclass dips [14h]
Anker recalls a number of power banks amid safety fears, though it says that 'the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal' [14h]
Good guy GSC wordlessly deletes ads in Stalker remaster menus with itsy-bitsy new patch [14h]
The Blood of Dawnwalker: All the key details about Rebel Wolves' dark fantasy action RPG [14h]
Steam adds an in-game performance monitor so you can brag about hitting 900 FPS in Deus Ex [15h]
The end is probably nigh for full Windows driver support for GTX 10, 9 and 7 Series graphics cards as Nvidia announces that its next major Linux driver fork will be its last for those GPUs [15h]
Right to repair bill in Texas has been signed into law after winning by a landslide victory, with not a single vote against it [15h]
Mecha Break launch times and release date [16h]
Incredible neural implant translates neural activity into speech almost instantly by focussing on sound production instead of word choice [20h]
Massive Ahold Delhaize data breach sees 2.2 million people's data exposed in ransomware attacks against major U.S. food retailer [21h]
Trump claims to have found a buyer for TikTok, but won't say who, yet 'I'll tell you in about two weeks' [22h]
Author's petition requesting publishers swear off AI recieves over 1,000 signatures in first 24 hours [22h]
Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 1 [22h]
The first autonomous robot football match happened in China and it's like watching drunk toddlers with fewer ethical setbacks [22h]

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