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A "power event" took down a Google Cloud zone in London (image via The Register) Tuesday's tech news starts with a reminder of how much runs on the cloud: a power failure in one Google Cloud zone in London knocked UK banks, delivery firms and even remote court hearings offline for hours. In AI and chips, ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent reportedly ordered $35 billion worth of Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 cards, OpenAI is racing to raise about $30 billion before Anthropic's IPO, Anthropic is negotiating a second $45 billion compute deal with Nscale, Salesforce is buying Braze for $5.66 billion, and Qualcomm is planning job cuts. Plus: Amazon's €16 billion German investment, a privacy slip in Meta's Muse agent, a run of supply-chain attacks (OVHcloud's CLI, Rank Math PRO and AOMEI Backupper), a UK proposal on iPhone contactless payments, Windows blocking ReFS on USB drives, a Microsoft VPN fix that didn't stick, Lightroom's one-tap eye fix, and an HPE compute...

Nintendo Switch Sports Resort (Image: Nintendo, via Nintendo Life) Nintendo Switch Sports Resort launches October 22, exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2, just ahead of Wii Sports' 20th anniversary, and the reviews are in. It's the fifth game in the Wii Sports and Switch Sports series and takes the action back to Wuhu Island from Wii Sports Resort, this time as an open map you can fly, skate and jet ski around. There are 12 sports: classics like Tennis, Bowling, Golf and Boxing, plus the new Thumb Wrestling and Skateboarding. Critics like it a lot. It holds a 79 Metascore from 32 reviews, and OpenCritic's early Top Critic Average is 84 . Reviewers agree it's the most complete entry in the series. The motion controls are the best they've been, there's real single-player content in the Island Crown mode, and it's a great party game. The complaints: some favorites like Chambara are missing, a few sports are weaker than the rest, and overall it doesn...

Final Fantasy Resonance (Image: Square Enix, via Nintendo Life) Final Fantasy Resonance launches October 22 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, Switch and PC, and the reviews are in. It's the series' first HD-2D game. Square Enix and Lancarse rebuilt the story of the now-shut-down mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius as a full single-player JRPG. The gacha is gone, and the turn-based combat uses stagger bars plus "Visions," the spirits of classic Final Fantasy heroes that you equip to your party. Critics mostly like it: it holds an 85 Metascore on PS5 from 29 reviews, and almost all of them are positive. Nearly everyone praises the combat, the Vision system, the soundtrack and what may be the best-looking HD-2D yet. The split is over the story and cast, which many reviewers call predictable and full of tropes. A few, including Eurogamer, VGC and Polygon, think the game leans too hard on nostalgia. Aggregate Scores Metacritic: 85 Metascore...

Grand Theft Auto VI (image via IGN / Rockstar Games) GTA 6 is a month away, and today's lead comes from Jason Schreier's latest look inside Rockstar: the game is so big that no single developer knows everything in it. Also on Tuesday: reviews are in for Final Fantasy Resonance and Nintendo Switch Sports Resort, Cyberpunk 2077 gets update 2.5 alongside Edgerunners 2, Star Wars Battlefront 3 rumors pick up steam, Helldivers 2 switches anti-cheat, and PEGI starts re-rating loot box games to 16. Plus: GTA 6's latest preorder numbers, a Black Ops developer's case for royalties, how Kratos almost got a pizza-chain name, sad news about Clannad writer Jun Maeda, Arc Raiders' PvE decision timeline, Subnautica 2's next big update, Destiny 2's unvaulting plans, Ace Combat 8's bug-fix patch, and Intel's XeSS coming to Proton. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 20, 2026 . Grand Theft Auto VI (image via GamesRadar+ / Rockstar Games) GTA 6 is s...

Debris found in a Minnesota cornfield (image via Ars Technica) Monday's tech news starts somewhere unusual: a farmer's cornfield in Minnesota, where an 11-foot piece of what looks like a Chinese rocket stage turned up during the harvest. In AI hardware, Nvidia's new Vera CPU won over AI cloud startup Modal, Jim Keller's Tenstorrent more than doubled its valuation to $6.2 billion, and Amazon is backing a 960 MW small modular reactor plan in Indiana. It's a rough start to the week for IT admins too: October's Windows Server updates are breaking some Exchange servers, ConnectWise pulled its Cloud Backup service after a breach that reached Microsoft 365 tenants, a 16-year-old Broadcom Wi-Fi bug can still hijack routers, and F5 patched critical NGINX flaws. Plus: Europe's big carriers plan a satellite-to-phone bid, MiniMax's cheaper M3.1 Flash, Jio's $25 billion IPO anchor book, CXMT's profit surge, Google's AI help pages, GM's Apple Wallet ...