The Brutalist Report

Stop messing with team deathmatch [4d]
Remembering Leif Johnson, the gaming industry's one and only cowboy poet [4d]
Paradox is bringing back White Wolf for tabletop RPGs and at least one videogame [5d]
Most players 'know next to nothing about how games are made': New Blood devs sound off on gamedev misconceptions [5d]
Konami re-recorded the Snake Eater theme for Metal Gear Solid Delta, but don't worry—it's still the same excellent vocalist belting "Snaaaaaaaaake Eaaaterrrrrrrrr" [5d]
'We're gonna do right by you': Splitgate 2 CEO apologizes for server meltdown after the open beta goes live [5d]
Larian insists it did not accidentally leak Divinity: Original Sin 3, it was just a glitch on X [5d]
Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel: 'If you knowingly build systems that can enable war crimes, you inevitably become complicit in those crimes' [5d]
Nubby's Number Factory is like Balatro if it were a plinko roguelike and instead of Jokers had items like Squirmy, Pedro, and A Ton of Feathers [5d]
This XCOM-style strategy game dares to ask: What if Napoleon Bonaparte was a woman who had an army of battlemechs? [5d]
If there was one non-AI Computex trend this year it's that everything needs a damned screen in or on it [5d]
REPO will feature 'moon phases' as part of the new update, ramping up the difficulty every 5 levels [5d]
Computex has made me finally care about PC cases and it's not just because of rig envy [5d]
Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' [5d]
I've swapped Windows for the latest SteamOS build on my Legion Go S and I'm not going back [5d]
'They listened! They listened!': Stalker restores Soviet monument after angry fans tanked its Steam reviews, and they couldn't be happier [5d]
Bugtopia is my next insect idle game obsession and I promise I'm not mad about the grind at the beginning which makes you sell your own bugs [5d]
The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless headset is now at the best price I've seen at only $229 [5d]
Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in '84% of rollouts' while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it 'engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied' [5d]
Noctua finally cracks the case market with a fan-equipped chassis that 'can substantially reduce noise' and now I want an all-Noctua rig [5d]
'We'll call you back': BioWare's first impression of The Witcher 1 was a bad demo, followed by CDPR declaring that they wanted to 'create the best RPG game ever' [5d]
This hacking sim is like if Uplink was more of a puzzle game, and if you live for snooping through other people's emails you're going to be well-served [5d]
The voice actor for FF14's Alphinaud finally reaches Heavensward, sees his own work after 10 years in all its 'jumpscare' glory [5d]
If you never played the original The Witcher RPG then here's a heads-up—the censorship-free Enhanced Edition is now dirt cheap [5d]
PNY and Palit have stolen my heart at Computex with their clean and shiny RTX 50-series graphics cards [5d]
FTC drops 2-year case against Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard [5d]
HTC Vive makes impending tariffs a sales event, giving US consumers one last chance to jump into VR before the price hikes [5d]
Valve certifies the Lenovo Legion Go S for SteamOS, improves AMD compatibility, controller support, and officially brings 80% limiting to SteamOS in 3.7.8 update [5d]
Three Warhammer games are free to keep as part of this year's Warhammer Skulls event [5d]
Light No Fire: Everything we know about Hello Games' planet-sized survival game [5d]
Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 23 [5d]
Warhammer 40,000's space dwarfs will make their videogame debut in turn-based tactics sequel Mechanicus 2 this year [5d]

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