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Mass Effect (image via IGN / BioWare) The Save Mass Effect campaign has made it to an EA office wall, and Digital Foundry found Modern Warfare 4 on Switch 2 has a real input lag problem. Bend Studio's next game might be closer than you think, and a viral video does the math on how GTA 6 could save you $5,000. Plus Dune: Awakening heads somewhere frozen, HoYoverse dates Petit Planet, Anthropic confirms its Claude change on game clones, Warzone's last-gen shutdown, a see-through handheld and more. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for November 1, 2026 . Mass Effect (image via Kotaku / BioWare) "Save Mass Effect" graffiti shows up outside an EA office as the fan campaign keeps growing The Save Mass Effect movement has gone from petitions to spray paint. A Reddit user shared photos of "Save Mass Effect" graffiti tagged outside an EA building in Madrid, IGN and Kotaku report. It's the latest twist in a fan campaign that took off after EA shut down ...

Meta (image via CNBC) S&P turned its outlook on Meta negative over its AI spending, and Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft are backing one simple robots.txt signal to opt out of AI training. Plus malware that uses AI to "autodox" its victims, the Amadeus airline data breach, OpenAI's smaller raise and Anthropic's possible junk rating, Reddit's worst day ever, Applebee's leaky app, a ransomware crew's $7,000 AI bill, falling payouts for renting out your Mac, the RTX 5080 vanishing from Nvidia's store, Starbucks' AI drive-thru, Dartmouth's AI disclosure scandal, a global rocket shortage, Voyager 1's brief silence and a homebrew PDP-11 RAM board. Here's the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 31, 2026 . S&P turns negative on Meta as its AI spending pushes cash flow into the red S&P Global Ratings has cut its outlook on Meta from stable to negative, keeping the AA- rating but warning it could drop, CNBC reports. The agenc...

Final Fantasy 14: Evercold (image via IGN / Square Enix) Final Fantasy 14's Evercold expansion is slipping to February, and its new Zephyr job comes with a pet bird. GTA 6's morality system finally has a name and a scale, the Skyblivion team says a former volunteer is threatening to sue, and Nintendo had to cancel Kirby Air Riders' Halloween event. Plus Activision's apology over Modern Warfare 4's Itaewon footage, id Software's closer ties with MachineGames, a studio fighting to survive, 40 minutes of Exodus, Soulframe opening its doors and more. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 31, 2026 . Final Fantasy 14: Evercold's Zephyr job (image via GamesRadar+ / Square Enix) Final Fantasy 14: Evercold slips four weeks to February 23, 2027, and its second new job is the crossbow-and-bird Zephyr Final Fantasy 14's next expansion is running a little late. At FFXIV Fan Fest in Japan, Square Enix said Evercold now launches on February 23, 2027...