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Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 (Image: Auroch Digital, via IGN) Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 launched October 14 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2, and the reviews are in. Auroch Digital 's sequel to the 2023 pixel-art boomer shooter picks up right after the first game. You can play as returning Space Marine Malum Caedo or new Battle Sister Nyla Veyrath, and the campaign now branches. Critics like it a lot: the PC version has an 81 Metascore from 20 reviews (18 positive, 2 mixed, 0 negative), and the PS5 version sits at 80 from 10 reviews. Most reviewers agree it's a bigger, better version of the original. You get more enemies, better bosses, stronger level design, and two characters who play differently. The most common complaints are some awkward platforming, a thin story, and a few technical hiccups. A couple of critics also found it too safe a sequel. Aggregate Scores Metacritic: 81 Metascore on PC (20 reviews), "Generally Fav...

Thursday’s tech news is dominated by the bill for the AI boom coming due. Nvidia-backed CoreWeave’s stock and bonds keep sliding under a roughly $50 billion debt load, Anthropic told investors its third-quarter revenue hit $16.8 billion as it gears up for an IPO, Google’s Universal Cart is live for holiday shopping, and Amazon refreshed its always-listening Bee gadgets. Add Apple Intelligence finally heading to China (minus Siri AI), another record quarter from TSMC, Jensen Huang pushing U.S.–China AI talks, and more. Here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 15, 2026 . CoreWeave’s slump puts the debt behind the AI boom in the spotlight Shares and bonds of Nvidia-backed CoreWeave tumbled again Thursday despite CEO Mike Intrator telling staff the company’s deal backlog covers its obligations. Reuters reports the loss-making AI cloud firm is carrying about $50 billion in debt, with bond yields past 16% and credit-default swap spreads around 1,000 basis points — implying a roughly ...

Grand Theft Auto VI launch trailer (image via Polygon / Rockstar Games) Rockstar just dropped the GTA 6 launch trailer out of nowhere — 90 seconds of Vice City, heists, a brand-new Justice single, and a very steamy shower scene — and it's officially our lead. GTA 6 also squeaks into Game Awards eligibility by a single day. Elsewhere on Thursday: House House says Big Walk is skipping Xbox over the BDS boycott, Ubisoft wants about 100 people to leave its German studios, Cyberpunk 2's director says the sequel is outgrowing his original pitch, 007 First Light finally has a Switch 2 date, and Monster Hunter Wilds gets a Switch 2 demo. Also on the list: Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave's Expansion Pass, Final Fantasy Resonance's first review, Steam Next Fest, a datamined Steam Frame OLED, the ROG Xbox Ally X20, Red Rooster from ex-Disco Elysium devs, Dean Hall's free Brutal framework, and today's Castlevania and Jackbox launches. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundu...

Wednesday’s tech news is all about AI safety colliding with real-world consequences. DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis called recent AI-agent hacks “early warning shots,” Reuters mapped how Amodei, Altman, and Musk want to pace the frontier while Zuckerberg and Huang push back, Netflix is cutting about 1,000 jobs, ASML says chip-tool demand already stretches to 2030, and JPMorgan is locking outside AI agents out of customer accounts. Add a $21B GlobalFoundries U.S.–Japan fab deal, jailbreaks on OpenAI and Google image models, a 1,400-fix Microsoft Patch Tuesday, and more. Here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 14, 2026 . DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis calls AI agent hacks “early warning shots” At Dublin’s International AI Summit, Google DeepMind co-founder and chair Demis Hassabis said recent AI-agent hacking incidents are “early warning shots” — not catastrophic yet because the systems aren’t powerful enough, but they could be next year or the year after if industry and governments don’t ...

Valor Mortis (Image: One More Level / Keen Games, via OpenCritic) Valor Mortis launched October 13 on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X|S (day one on Game Pass), and the reviews are in. It's a first-person Napoleonic soulslike from One More Level — the Ghostrunner studio — with Vincent Cassel voicing an alternate-history Napoleon and a plague that brings the dead back. Aggregates sit around the high 70s to low 80s: about 80 on OpenCritic (~76% of critics recommend) and roughly 77 on Metacritic for PC, with a smaller PS5 sample tracking a bit higher. Critics largely agree the first-person combat — especially parries and executions — is the draw, with parkour DNA from Ghostrunner peeking through. The pushback is familiar for an ambitious mid-budget soulslike: uneven pacing, a shallow enemy pool early on, and too many systems fighting for attention. GameSpot's 6/10 called it a game that "tries too much"; Eurogamer's 4/5 called it a stellar so...

Grand Theft Auto VI (image via GTA Vice / Rockstar / Bloomberg) Rockstar just spilled a ton of GTA 6 development secrets in a Bloomberg Businessweek feature — including a whole Los Angeles studio built just for NPCs and nightclub lighting that syncs to the music. Elsewhere on Wednesday: Ubisoft is proposing to shut down Trials studio RedLynx, Modern Warfare 4 preload starts tonight, Polygon went hands-on with the Ocarina of Time remake, Pikmin 4's Switch 2 edition locks November 12, and Nintendo stuffed Switch Online with three GBA classics. Also on the list: Steam's new bouncing-logo screensaver, a PS5 pirate store that won't stay dead, WoW: Forever's gold-buy crackdown, Callisto Protocol's forced ship, Jackbox Party Pack 12 tomorrow, and Valor Mortis review scores. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 14, 2026 . Grand Theft Auto VI (image via GTA Vice / Rockstar / Bloomberg) Rockstar built a whole LA studio for GTA 6 NPCs — and obsessed over nigh...