The Brutalist Report - gaming
- Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting' [9d]
- Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games [9d]
- Baldur's Gate 3 composer Borislav 'Bobby' Slavov is coming back for Divinity: 'We wouldn't be able to stop him even if we wanted to' [9d]
- Arc Raiders player ranks 30 common outfits by how likely they are to shoot you in the back, and I have to admit it's right on the money [9d]
- Competitive demon slaying is about to take over Diablo 4 as its next update finally adds official leaderboards [9d]
- Over half of The Sims development team is working on The Sims 4 and 'the next evolution' so I guess it's time to start speculating again [9d]
- Divinity's reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian's writing director says: 'We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness' [9d]
- It's not the news we wanted but it's what we expected: EA has finally admitted Project Rene is a 'mobile-first' game [9d]
- The PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive a huge stompy mechanical base across a ruined planet gets a Steam release date [9d]
- You'll never guess what the 'Random Heart Attacks' mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 does [9d]
- For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement [9d]
- Tetris creator says the Rubik's cube is 'the symbol of modern civilisation' and we should send them into space [9d]
- Unfortunately, all of that doomsaying last year was correct and SSD prices are surging as a result of the memory crisis [9d]
- Panther Lake's gaming chops look solid but the battery life is truly what interests me as a PC gamer on the go [9d]
- Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros [9d]
- Larian's given us a single-word spoiler for Divinity, its next game, and for some reason it's 'alligator' [9d]
- 'I wish Wyll had gotten more content' says the Baldur's Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads 'might have been a mistake in hindsight' [9d]
- Elder Scrolls fans are taking it well after Microsoft says it's a 'big year for games ending in 6' ahead of its upcoming Xbox Direct showcase: 'I'm practically living off hopium and copium at this point' [9d]
- Gigabyte's new OLED gaming monitor debuts 'HyperNits' brightness tech, so are screens with regular nits now second best? [9d]
- Divinity will officially wave goodbye to Original Sin 2's broken armour system [9d]
- Hell is Us review [9d]
- The 1 TB Lexar NM790 is the most sensibly priced SSD for gaming I've seen in weeks [9d]
- 'There is *zero* point in talking about AI slop. That's just plain stupid': Linus Torvalds weighs in on AI debate in Linux kernel documentation [9d]
- My Arc Raiders 2026 wishlist consists of new mobs, modes, and map conditions [9d]
- 9 big things Steam needs to improve in 2026 [9d]
- Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says 'There is not going to be any GenAI art in Divinity,' but it's still 'trying [AI] things out across departments' [9d]
- I've just found a new cutesy Balatro, but instead of a deck of cards you get to tend to a garden and harvest flowers [9d]
- Attacks on Kingdom Come: Deliverance for gay romance, representation 'only mattered to a handful of terminally online culture warriors,' reckons KCD2's exec producer, and probably didn't impact the games' reception [9d]
- AMD leaves the door open to an official 'beta' version of its latest AI-enhanced FSR upscaling tech for older RDNA 3 GPUs [9d]
- Jen-Hsun needs to up his game because we've run the numbers and AMD's CES keynote hit 1.8 mentions of AI per minute—even more than Nvidia [9d]
- Meet Project Patchouli, an open-source drawing tablet project to 'build your own tablet from scratch' [9d]
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