The Brutalist Report - gaming
- More than a year after its last update, this forgotten RTS from the makers of Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is being removed from Steam [26m]
- Shooter cosmetics reach a new low with Trump, Kamala, and a neckbeard keyboard warrior all available on day one of this new battle royale [47m]
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake will launch 'very soon,' Ubisoft exec says, but he also namedropped Splinter Cell for no apparent reason so maybe he's still just messing with us [1h]
- I've been obsessed with a single dialogue choice in an underappreciated Obsidian game for 10 years, so I tracked down the guy who wrote it to learn everything about my favorite joke in RPG history [3h]
- Rainbow Six Siege pro arrested for participating in alleged kidnap and torture of a man for three months in Japan [3h]
- The brainbox behind Valve's Steam Labs says the number of Steam releases featuring GenAI in 2025 is 1 in 5, with 7% of all games on there now incorporating it: 'We’ve octupled last year’s figure' [5h]
- Here’s the one Destiny 2 Portal modifier that makes A-grade easy, showering you with new loot in The Edge of Fate [6h]
- Sony WF-C710N review [6h]
- I've just crowned these Beyerdynamic headphones as the best audiophile closed-back cans, although it's a shame about the lack of microphone [6h]
- This tactics RPG set on a floating New York City could be the next great noir videogame [6h]
- The most anticipated Everdark Sovereigns are coming to Elden Ring Nightreign in just two weeks, and I hope it'll hurt [6h]
- With Steam launch concurrents at an all-time low for Destiny 2's latest expansion, I think Bungie is finally paying the price for years of mistakes—the biggest being the time it removed paid content [6h]
- DayZ creator's monster-hunting survival game gets major new DLC offering brutal endgame challenges with lavish loot: 'Survival games should be challenging, after all' [7h]
- I have no idea what I'd use this gorgeous retro futuristic macropad for, but at $99 I'm thinking of slamming the buy button anyway [7h]
- Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam [8h]
- Final Fantasy 14 warns players that it's time for an upgrade as Microsoft gears up to end support for Windows 10: 'Support for this operating system is a difficult proposition' [8h]
- Gabe Newell reckons AI tools will result in a 'funny situation' where people who can't program become 'more effective developers of value' than those who've been at it 'for a decade' [8h]
- I am now slightly obsessed with Uncle Bot, a Chinese robot in people clothes that's rapidly becoming a social media sensation [8h]
- Keep this to yourself, but a BIOS with a theoretical 2,001 W power limit exists for this absurdly overbuilt Galax RTX 5090 D [9h]
- Endless Legend 2 has been delayed until September, but at least you'll be able to play a demo in August [10h]
- All Genshin Impact 5.8 livestream codes [10h]
- Asus ROG Azoth X review [10h]
- Google begins legal action against BadBox 2.0, 'the largest known botnet of internet-connected TVs' affecting more than 10,000,000 Android devices including *checks notes* picture frames [11h]
- Elden Ring Nightreign finds a new way to victimise players as Nightfarers accidentally fight 2 bosses at once: 'They were convinced I was just being dumb' [11h]
- This Redditor says it wasn't even that difficult to get a sub-$100 broken Steam Deck working again with parts from an old Nintendo DS Lite: 'not that hard at all' [11h]
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