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Grand Theft Auto VI (image via TheGamer / Rockstar Games) GTA 6 is one month away, and today's lead is a debate nobody at Rockstar probably saw coming: the BBC asked whether romancing Jason or Lucia could count as cheating on a real partner, and fans had plenty to say. Also on Monday: Saros gets a free Zenith update with a boss rush and New Game+, Hideo Kojima returns as his Cyberpunk character in Edgerunners 2 as the first reviews arrive, Modern Warfare 4 honors Vince Zampella, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation lets you choose Hard Mode from the start, and Nintendo admits it underestimated demand for the Zelda Switch 2. Plus: a Microsoft manager's AI comments, Digital Foundry on the Metaphor: ReFantazio Switch 2 demo, The Witcher 3's Switch 2 patch, Faraway's release date after 16 years, a Nemesis-style Red Dead 2 mod, Xbox's missing security seals, The Finals' name-dropping announcers, Resident Evil 7's messy development, and Super Mario 64's plaque, decode...

Anthropic Public Benefit Fund (image via Anthropic) A little later than usual today. Anthropic leads: it's putting 5% of its shares into a new Public Benefit Fund that can grow as the company does, and it has embedded outside safety evaluators from METR inside its offices. Also on Sunday: Microsoft walked away from Nscale's UK AI data center over power delays, Samsung will reportedly use TSMC's 3nm process for Nvidia's custom HBM, Disney is hiring most of Character.AI's staff, and new Macs and the OLED iPad mini could arrive November 6. Plus: AI wearables run into wiretap laws, the data center industry courts kids, an arrest over a delivery robot, the Slate truck's phone-powered updates, $470K of missing RTX 5090s, DJI's battery-swapping dock, and Cyrillic lookalike domains. Here's the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 18, 2026 . Anthropic puts 5% of its shares into a new Public Benefit Fund Anthropic is committing 5% of its shares, subject to stockh...

Marvel's Wolverine (Image: Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment, via IGN) Marvel's Wolverine launched September 15 on PlayStation 5, and now that the reviews have settled, here's where it landed. Insomniac Games moved away from the open worlds of its Spider-Man games for a more linear, very bloody action game built around Logan's claws. Critics are split: the game holds a 77 Top Critic Average on OpenCritic, with 63% of critics recommending it. That's well below Insomniac's Spider-Man games, and the scores range from perfect marks to a few 5s. Almost everyone praises the fast, brutal combat, the visuals, and the take on Logan and the rest of the cast. The criticism is mostly about the combat getting repetitive, uneven pacing, a melodramatic story, and design that feels dated and hand-holding next to Insomniac's best work. Aggregate Scores OpenCritic: 77 Top Critic Average, 63% of critics recommend – opencritic.com M...

Grand Theft Auto VI (image via Push Square / Rockstar Games) We're running a little late today. GTA 6 leads: Digital Foundry doesn't see the PS5's new QSSR upscaler anywhere in the launch trailer, and the game got Japan's CERO Z rating. Also on Sunday: Halo Studios reportedly scrapped an extraction shooter/battle royale hybrid, Outlast has passed 60 million players after a rocky road for The Outlast Trials, a dataminer found a giant cut coliseum in Dark Souls 2, Bloober Team is sticking with physical games, and Tim Sweeney says AI will bring a "golden age of gaming." Plus: Gray Zone Warfare goes "merc-sim," Modern Warfare 4's campaign reviews, Insignia revives Burnout 3 online, Xbox adds the Defold engine, eight games leave Game Pass, Atelier Karia's snack-based body shapes, and a Game Boy museum on a cartridge. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 18, 2026 . Grand Theft Auto VI (image via Pixel Herald / Rockstar Games) GTA...