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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...

Saturday’s tech news is heavy on AI infrastructure and security. DeepSeek pushed out a faster, cheaper V4.1 Flash update and opened its search engine to developers, Anthropic signed its first Canadian data center lease in Nova Scotia, and a hacker made off with data on millions of California students. Add India’s report of AI agents from several labs wandering into live company systems, Meta walking back its controversial AI-scraping terms, Qualcomm denying overheating claims about its newest flagship chip, Nvidia insisting the RTX 5090 isn’t dead, an arrest in the Qilin ransomware case, Windows networking trouble from an NTLMv1 crackdown, critical Drupal patches, Deno’s wind-down at Cloudflare, open-weight models’ growing share of AI spending, free plumbing repairs that train robots, E Ink’s brighter Kaleido 4, Japan’s false 9.9 earthquake alert, and more. Here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 17, 2026 . DeepSeek ships a faster, leaner V4.1 Flash update and opens its search e...

Grand Theft Auto VI (image via GamesRadar+ / Rockstar Games) GTA 6 might finally be fixing a problem Rockstar games have had since GTA 4. Digital Foundry spotted that the subtle animation stutter seen in every earlier GTA 6 trailer is missing from the new launch trailer. That's our lead, along with Sony's "Plays Best on PS5" marketing already swaying at least one very big streamer. Also on Saturday: a bank thinks the next Red Dead could come surprisingly soon, Samson studio Liquid Swords has gone bankrupt, Funcom is laying people off and changing CEOs, and Wardogs is moving Season 3 up after a rough Season 2. Plus: Marvel Rivals gets tougher on toxic chat, Mew2King is barred from a Smash tournament, the Nvidia App switched on AI agent control by default, a viral Steam game already has a copycat, Steam has passed last year's total number of releases, a BioWare veteran worries about CD Projekt's costs, the Ocarina of Time remake adds some new side content, Mod...