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The Wolf Among Us Remastered (Image: Telltale Games, via IGN) The Wolf Among Us Remastered , Telltale's refresh of its 2013 Fables noir mystery, is out on October 29 , according to its Metacritic listing, and the reviews are in. Critics are happy to be back in Fabletown. It sits at an 85 Metascore overall, with 86 on PC and 85 on PS5, while the Xbox version is one review short of getting a score, Pure Xbox notes. Critics mostly agree that the story, the writing and the choices still hold up, and the new lighting, redone environments, deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes extras make this the best way to play it. The common complaints are that there's no new story, the stiff old animations are still here, and the gameplay leans heavily on quick-time events. Several reviewers call it a perfect refresher before The Wolf Among Us 2 in 2027, though owners of the original don't get much reason to buy it again. Aggregate Scores Metacritic: 85 Metascore (86 PC, 8...

Grand Theft Auto VI (image via Eurogamer / Rockstar Games) GTA 6 is three weeks out, and Rockstar's UK developers just set a union vote that runs right through launch week. Edge's big GTA 6 cover story drops tomorrow, Xbox promises to fix review codes after Modern Warfare 4 shipped without an Xbox Metacritic score, and Valve talks Steam visibility and AI. Phantom Blade Zero reportedly passes a million copies before launch, Palworld eyes Switch 2, and there's plenty more. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 28, 2026 . Rockstar's UK developers will vote on union recognition right as GTA 6 launches Rockstar staff in the UK have a big vote coming up in the same month as GTA 6. From November 12 to 26 , employees will vote on whether Rockstar formally recognizes the IWGB's Rockstar Game Workers Union, IGN reports. That window covers GTA 6's November 19 launch. If the vote passes, Eurogamer says it would be the largest recognized union in the UK gam...

Meta (image via CNBC) Nvidia and AMD put a combined $4 billion into Meta's giant AI stock sale, Apple builds an AI assistant into Pages, Keynote and Numbers, and DoorDash closes in on a roughly $17 billion deal for Instacart. Plus Intel's $2.3 billion quantum buy, Anduril and Qualcomm's US-assembled laptops, OpenAI's cheaper GPT-6.1 Terra, a possible TSMC packaging price hike, Ford's home-powering Fathom pickup, Apple's iPhone Duo screen fix, Instagram's 90-minute videos, local AI in Opera, a Roblox-linked scraping complaint, NASA's three-rocket Artemis 3 plan and Fujifilm's new Instax. Here's the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 27, 2026 . Update: Nvidia and AMD commit $4 billion to Meta's AI stock sale Yesterday Meta said Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom were interested in buying up to $5 billion of its new shares. Now two of them have put real numbers on it. Nvidia says it will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering and AMD is puttin...

Grand Theft Auto VI (image via IGN / Rockstar Games) GTA 6 is just over three weeks away, and it's already shaping people's calendars: time-off requests for launch day are way up, while one analyst says other studios are too scared of it. Warhorse, the Kingdom Come studio, has been hit by a cyberattack, Pokémon Unite is shutting down, and the Silent Hill remake is reportedly aiming for 2027. Capcom pulls Street Fighter 5 over a security flaw, Peter Molyneux talks AI, and there's plenty more. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 27, 2026 . GTA 6 is driving a spike in November 19 time-off requests, while an analyst says rival devs shouldn't be so scared of it Plenty of people seem to be planning a day off for GTA 6. HR software company BambooHR told Money.com that time-off requests for Thursday, November 19 are running 9% to 17% above a normal third Thursday in November, IGN reports. Not every request is about Vice City, of course, but the timing is har...