The Brutalist Report - gaming
- Just two weeks after launch, 'extraction survival horror' game Level Zero: Extraction ends development: 'It's no longer feasible for our relatively small teams to sustain the game' [8d]
- Epic gave away nearly 600 million games in 2024, and it's 'not slowing down' for 2025 [8d]
- Avowed succeeds where Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed: An actionized, beginner-friendly entry point to a long-running series that doesn't sacrifice its identity [8d]
- France's biggest game industry union puts together a 'Grève Bundle' to support striking workers [8d]
- 'A hellish nightmare': Remembering the most famous Civilization game ever played, Civ 2's 'Eternal War' [8d]
- Dev recalls working with David Bowie on Omikron, and the artist's madcap scheme to buy up a load of old satellites and 'relaunch Ziggy Stardust from space' [8d]
- Fishing minigames are the worst and I'm not afraid to say it [8d]
- Dark and Darker developer did not commit copyright infringement, court rules, but has to pay Nexon nearly $6 million anyway [8d]
- We can now pinpoint the exact year videogames turned from God's light thanks to the discovery of a 'nude code' for Smurfette in 1984 [8d]
- 3DMark benchmarks show off AMD's big daddy Strix Halo laptop chip in action and I'm a little underwhelmed [8d]
- Presumably much to Miyazaki's dismay, Elden Ring Nightreign is decidedly void of poison swamps: 'Maybe no one wanted to include it' [8d]
- MSI MPG 272URX review [8d]
- I have seen the future, and it's this 3D-printed air raid siren honking its baleful tones over my neighbourhood as the waters rise [8d]
- Arm reportedly plans to make its own CPUs from this summer with future chips said to be powering a revolutionary Jony Ive-designed AI device [8d]
- AOC Agon Pro AG276FK review [8d]
- Nightdive's spent 6 years on its update of System Shock 2, so it's now the '25th Anniversary Remaster' and will finally announce its release date on March 20 [8d]
- Don't worry about missing Elden Ring Nightreign's network test on PC—nobody could play it on console either [8d]
- AMD's Frank Azor says no 32 GB RX 9070 XT for you, probably because a 32 GB mid-range GPU didn't make much sense in the first place [8d]
- You can nab Owlcat's first Pathfinder CRPG for $45 or $4 right now, depending on whether you want a library's worth of TTRPG books too [8d]
- Youtube's CEO says it's the 'new television' with 1 billion TV viewers daily, and apparently people watch Shorts on their TV now [8d]
- A web3 free-to-play survival game found to be a front for installing malware on your PC has finally been removed from Steam [8d]
- Anyone who raises an eyebrow at paying $85 for a Deep Rock Galactic mug must know they are 'the most complicated mug made industrially on Earth' [8d]
- Overwatch 2 players are hoping that the upcoming perks will dissuade the heinous act of counterswapping [8d]
- I finally understand why all those Soulslike bosses hated me so much, thanks to The Dark Queen of Mortholme, which pits you up against some plucky upstart who just keeps coming back [8d]
- Intel is reportedly in talks to spin off its chip factories into a partnership with arch rival TSMC and now I think I've seen everything [8d]
- Despite a 'teamwide oops, guess we made it too hard moment,' Hyper Light Breaker has 'no regrets' about its mixed-response early access launch, and now it's got a roadmap so everyone can 'git gud' [8d]
- AMD is finally spilling the beans about the RX 9070 series during a live stream on February 28 [8d]
- All Honkai: Star Rail 3.1 livestream codes [8d]
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti GPU officially goes on sale February 20 and the RTX 5070 is go for March 5 [8d]
- A 'Musk-led consortium' of investors say they'll withdraw $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI—but only if it stays non-profit [8d]
- It's worth subscribing to Warhammer+ for a month just to marathon the animations, then cancel your sub [9d]
- Today's Wordle answer for Friday, February 14 [9d]
- Obsidian plans to make RPGs for 100 years by 'not trying to grow aggressively, expand our team size, or make super profitable games' [9d]
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