The Brutalist Report - gaming
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
        
    
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
            
            - Why was 1000xResist’s best sales day 7 months post-launch? ‘Not being in The Game Awards,’ dev says [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Wicked, A Real Pain, Netflix’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, and every movie new to streaming [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Massive mod is the best new Command & Conquer game in over a decade [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Starfinder Second Edition breaks through in a crowded year of releases [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Get Shenmue, Ori, Condemned, and 5 other AGDQ games for $12 at Humble [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Antonblast turns a profit in less than a month, director says sequel in the cards [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - A bunch of game servers are shutting down in February [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Refurbished Steam Deck OLEDs are currently available from Valve [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Neon White helped me realize that I love drum and bass music [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Dungeons & Dragons gets an amazing pinball machine with Critical Role, Star Trek voice actors [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Dive headfirst into Monster Hunter for just $10 [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Judas ‘more reflective of player agency’ than BioShock, Ken Levine says [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Pokémon’s Ash Ketchum is actually ridiculously strong [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Two 2025 films could be a triumph for sci-fi’s best subgenre [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Feathers McGraw is the real hero of Netflix’s new Wallace & Gromit movie [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Your favorite game of 2025 might be out already [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Black Myth: Wukong continued its GOTY streak at the Steam Awards [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Andrew Garfield denies Spider-Man 4 rumors, fuels Spider-Man 4 rumors [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            - Has Hollywood finally cracked video game adaptations? 2025 will be a big test [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            
        
     
    
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
            
            -  6 games that could be bigger hits than you're expecting in 2025  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Floridians appear to be frantically Google searching for VPNs in the wake of the state's invasive porn ban  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says violence will be the default in AAA RPGs as long as we keep buying it: 'Companies don't make them because they feel like it. They make them because they sell'  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  'Elon is a father who gets lots of sex' somehow leads to renewed claims that Elon Musk superfan Adrian Dittman is actually Musk himself  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  What are your 2025 gaming resolutions?  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The FBI put a $5 million bounty on the 'Cryptoqueen' last year but still haven't found her, so take your pick: Russia, South Africa, or murdered on a yacht in 2018  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The Witcher season 4: Everything we know about Hemsworth's debut on The Continent  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Helldivers 2 director decides to kick off 2025 by wading into a conversation about DEI: 'Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement'  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Manor Lords has sold over 2.5 million copies and the publisher says 'it would almost be arrogant not to be taken aback' by the success  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain, so I'll just go ahead and start the countdown clock for our first Sailor Man soulslike  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The TDP of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 have been leaked, suggesting it's a little less power-hungry than we thought, though still massive  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Marvel Rivals admits that it accidentally banned some players for trying to run the game in a different operating system, which isn't cheating  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people'  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Marvel Rivals has some truly cursed mods, but that's what happens when you mix weirdly detailed character models with the internet   [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  MSI's new 24-inch gaming monitor hits a sizzling 600 Hz and has me wondering how many Hz you genuinely need  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  AGDQ 2025 kicks off this weekend, featuring an Elden Ring saxophone boss rush, an 'All Romances' run of Fallout: New Vegas, and some of the worst games ever made  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  A German retailer reports the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has outsold the entire non-X3D 9000 line  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  LG's new 45-inch 5K2K OLED could be the pixel-packed gaming monitor you've been waiting for  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Bioshock's Big Daddy Ken Levine says that while he doesn't want to 'underestimate' AI, he's 'not overly impressed' by it, either  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  The Secret Level creator wants you to know that they did ask Halo to take part in the series, but Microsoft turned them down: 'Man, you think we didn't talk to Halo?'  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Defending a kinda wimpy Killzone crossover gun, Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says the game's past balance woes were due to weapons being 'seen as game objects' and that 'balance doesn't matter'  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Nvidia is giving away 5 classic Jensen-signed GeForce cards if you tweet to build hype for its CES 2025 briefing, and its first choice is almost older than me  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Hiding in the shadows, this Nvidia teaser video might have given us our first look at a Founders Edition RTX 50-series GPU  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  MSI, Asus and Samsung are announcing new 27-inch 4K models with '4th gen' QD-OLED panels but they're not a huge step forward  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Sid Meier's Civilization 7  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Today's Wordle answer for Friday, January 3  [304d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  Gulp! Dune: Awakening beta testers are dying of thirst nearly as often as they're dying of sandworms, and some are even drinking mouse blood to stay alive  [305d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            -  8 bold gaming predictions for 2025  [305d] 
                 
                
            
 
            
            
        
     
    
 
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