Final Fantasy has reinvented its combat more than any series out there. 🗡️ Which battle system is the GOAT? Vote, then tell me the one game that proves your pick 👇 #FinalFantasy #JRPG

🎮 TUESDAY GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP 🎮 Rough start to the week for a couple of beloved studios, plus a Nintendo showcase tomorrow. Here's what's moving 👇 💔 SUCKER PUNCH HIT WITH LAYOFFS The studio behind Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yōtei has reportedly let 26 people go, according to an ex-employee (via @InsiderGamingIG and @Wario64). A hit game still wasn't enough to keep the cuts away. Thinking of everyone affected at @SuckerPunchProd 🙏 ⚡ POKÉMON UNITE IS SHUTTING DOWN The Pokémon Company confirmed the free-to-play MOBA is ending service on Switch and mobile in March 2027. Aeos Gem purchases and Unite Club memberships are already suspended (via @VGC_News). RIP to a lot of ranked grinding. 🌱 NINTENDO INDIE WORLD TOMORROW @NintendoAmerica has an Indie World Showcase on Oct 28 at 7 AM PT / 9 AM CT. It runs about 15 minutes, with indie news for Switch 2 and Switch. What are you hoping shows up? ⚔️ PHANTOM BLADE ZERO PRELOADS ARE LIVE S-GAME's kungfupunk action game launches Oct 29 on PS5, Steam and Epic, and preloads started today. It's sitting at the top of Steam's global sellers chart. 🕹️ CAPCOM GOES (ALMOST) ALL DIGITAL Capcom's latest report says its 2026 releases are all selling well, and it's planning for 95% of sales to be digital (via @pushsquare). Meanwhile, Street Fighter 5 has been temporarily delisted with its servers offline during emergency security maintenance (via @VGC_News). 😬 👻 QUICK HITS 🔦 Bloober Team's Silent Hill remake is reportedly set for 2027 (@VGC_News) 🚀 A former BioWare tech director says the cancelled Mass Effect game would have tracked your choices from the original Shepard trilogy (@IGN) 💰 The PS5 homebrew scene is fired up after a hacker reported an exploit to Sony for a $50K bounty instead of releasing it (@IGN) 🤖 @TimSweeneyEpic called Steam's AI content disclosure policy a "political act," which set off a big debate about what buyers deserve to know (@IGN) 🌾 Emberville, the "Diablo meets Stardew" game that topped Steam Next Fest's most-played demos, delayed its early access launch at the last minute (@IGN) 🏢 Microsoft announced a voluntary redundancy scheme that could see up to 60,000 people leave, about a quarter of its staff (@VGC_News) 🌴 GTA VI is 23 days out, with review copies already in media hands 🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PIKMIN Pikmin turned 25 yesterday (GameCube, Oct 26, 2001). Olimar and the gang still march on. 🌸 Which story hits you hardest today? 👇 #GamingNews #SuckerPunch #PokemonUnite #IndieWorld #PhantomBladeZero #Capcom #SilentHill #Pikmin #GTA6

🚨 Comics Crowdfunding Tuesday 🚨 Eight campaigns worth your money this week. A few of these end in days, so don't sleep on them 👇 🧙‍♀️ YAGA – Slavic folk horror. Baba Yaga's origin: an abandoned girl and the horrors that turn her into the monster. 80 pages from Antoine Ozanam and Pedro Rodriguez, via @Afterlightcomic. Over 1,100% funded. Ends TOMORROW (Oct 28). kickstarter.com/projects/gho… 👻 FEVER DREAM – @beckycloonan's "cursed comic book," a 116-page mix of art book and graphic novel. About $98K raised on a $25K goal. Ends Oct 29. kickstarter.com/projects/kin… 🎼 P. CRAIG RUSSELL'S NIGHT MUSIC VOL. 1 – A legend brings back his 1979 anthology as an oversized hardcover. The centerpiece is his 44-page adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Fisherman and His Soul. About $53.7K raised, 268% funded. Ends Oct 30. kickstarter.com/projects/way… 🤠 HANGWATER, TX – Eight Southern horror stories set in one cursed little Texas town. As a Southern boy, I'm in. About $18.9K raised on a $7K goal. Ends Oct 30. kickstarter.com/projects/hou… 🔥 EMBERS – A wizard comes home to save the town that banished him from a fire demon. It's a painted 144-page fantasy graphic novel by Lyndon White. It's at 82% (£6.6K of £8K) with 4 days left, and this one needs a push. Ends Oct 31. kickstarter.com/projects/lyn… 💀 THE DEATH WHISPERER #1 – @PeterJTomasi's first Kickstarter ever, co-written with @keithchampagne and drawn by Neil Edwards. A man who hears the dead hunts the spirits that won't rest. Just funded. Ends Nov 5. kickstarter.com/projects/new… 🔮 PSYCHIC SAM VOLS. 1–3 – @mrmarkmillar and @JrRomita, the Kick-Ass team, reunite with Klaus Janson inks. Sam hears the name of tomorrow's killer the day before the crime. Over £54K raised. Ends Nov 19. kickstarter.com/projects/sid… 🐉 NIOBE: A WORLD DIVIDED #1 + NIOBE & DURA HC – @strangercomics' fantasy saga, with a new manga-style comic plus D&D TTRPG content. My tabletop crew is paying attention. About $75.9K raised on a $10K goal. Ends Nov 23. kickstarter.com/projects/str… Which one are you backing? Drop the campaigns you're supporting below 👇 #Kickstarter #ComicBooks #IndieComics #FolkHorror #CrowdfundComics

Call of Cthulhu is the only game where the right move is "don't read the creepy book" and every single table reads the creepy book anyway. What's the worst "I'll just take a quick peek" moment at your table? #CallOfCthulhu

Hot take for Halloween week: horror one-shots play better with 3 players than 5. Fewer jokes breaking the tension, more time alone in the dark, and every sanity roll actually hits. Agree, or am I wrong? #TTRPG #Halloween #HorrorRPG

Halloween one-shot poll: A) Deadlands (weird west horror) B) Cyberpunk Red (chrome + dread) C) D&D (classic haunted keep) D) Something else, tell me below I'll go first: Deadlands, always. #TTRPG

Joan of Arc wasn’t to difficult.

Playing a little Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse tonight. I hate this jump puzzle! #CastlevaniaBC #CastlevaniaBelmontsCurse #Nintendo #KONAMI

Genuine question: why does everyone hate candy corn? I've always loved it. To me it tastes like honey, and nobody hates honey. Is my tongue broken, or are you all wrong? 🍬

More comic news from today 📚 • HUMBUCKER: veteran editor Eric Harburn makes his writing debut in an Image/Tiny Onion crime thriller set in the NYC music scene. A debt-drowning indie label owner bets everything on a lost album, and then his loan shark crashes the session. Art by Simon Gane, colors by Jordie Bellaire, letters by @adityab. In shops April 14, 2027. @ImageComics • Bad Idea's January slate: The Hero Trade: The Butler, a one-shot by @mattkindt and @davidlapham told entirely in splash pages and pitched as Sin City meets Watchmen ($5.99, Jan 6). It Demands Sacrifice #3 and Lancer #3 also land Jan 20. • @DarkHorseComics says it's working on a reprint of the ENTIRE I Am A Hero series. More details are coming. • @RL_Stine and Andrea Mutti's Stuff of Nightmares: The Hoodie from @boomstudios hits final order cutoff today, so tell your shop now. • @johncusack signs his new graphic novel Momo (@MadCaveStudios) at @Challengers in Chicago on Thursday, Nov 5, 6 to 8 PM. #ComicBooks #ImageComics #DarkHorse #Manga #NewComics #ComicsTwitter

Years ago I joined a Discord called Oddkey, tied to Todd McFarlane (@Todd_McFarlane) and Steve Aoki (@steveaoki). I became a community leader there and loved it. It was a place to talk comics with other collectors, and big creators dropped in to talk to us. When the NFT craze died, so did the community, and Todd officially ended it this year. I'll be honest, it felt like a betrayal to me. Maybe I'm wrong, that's just how I feel. I still love the Spawn Universe, and the friends I made there are the best part I kept.

Marvel's February 2027 solicits are live, and the X-office is going big 🧲 • Magneto: End of Days #1: @BRIANMBENDIS and Andrea Sorrentino reunite, with Dave Stewart on colors. It's set in the near future, with "X-Men guest stars galore." (Feb 3) • Hulk War: Infernal Rage #1 (Phillip Kennedy Johnson/Nic Klein): Manhattan falls, the Infernal Hulk shows off his fallen Avengers, and a NEW Gray Hulk shows up just to smash him. A face from Bruce's past returns too. • Spider-Man: Noir #1 (@AlexSegura/Farid Karami): Venom joins the Noir universe! (Feb 10) • X-Men: Regulators #1 (Mikki Kendall/Georges Jeanty): a century-old mutant safe house, a new threat in the bayou. • Amazing Spider-Man #1009 (Joe Kelly/Ed McGuinness): Rhino vs. Tombstone, with Spidey caught in the middle. • Also: X-Men #45 introduces the new mutant Grievance, and Wolverine #32 has Logan in his Feral form reuniting with Victor Creed. And this Wednesday (Oct 28), Star Wars: Rogue One – Darth Vader #1 marks 10 years of Rogue One. Chris Condon makes his Star Wars debut with Luke Ross on art. Krennic's kyber deal stalls, so the Emperor sends Vader. Which one are you adding to your pull list? #Marvel #MarvelComics #XMen #Magneto #Hulk #SpiderMan #StarWars #ComicBooks @Marvel @starwars

Andy Kubert's '90s X-Men pages are getting a 200-page art book in January, and it has me thinking about that whole era. Jim Lee. Andy Kubert. Joe Madureira. Adam Kubert. Whilce Portacio. Rough decade for variant covers, but man, the interior art was something else. Who's YOUR definitive '90s X-Men artist, and what issue made you a fan? 👇 #XMen #90sComics #comics #Marvel

Art Spiegelman, the guy who made Maus, just admitted he used AI for the first time. It's the cover sticker on the 25th anniversary edition of In the Shadow of No Towers, his 9/11 book. His reason, per Publishers Weekly: "I wanted it to look like an old engraving, and I was lazy." Credit where it's due: he was upfront about it. But "I was lazy" is a rough reason coming from one of the most respected cartoonists alive, on a book about 9/11 of all things. Creators like Evan Dorkin and Victor Santos are already pushing back hard. When the legends do it, does that make it okay for everyone else, or should they be holding the line hardest? #comics #ArtSpiegelman #Maus #comicbooks #AIart

📰 Monday comics roundup, let's go: 🎨 Andy Kubert's '90s X-Men art is getting the big-book treatment. @MadCaveStudios landed a Marvel license for The X-Men Art of Andy Kubert: 200+ oversized pages (9x13.5) of original art scans, unseen sketches and process work, straight from his archives. $39.99, January 20. 🕵️ Mad Cave is also bringing back the original spy. Dan DiDio and Tom Derenick are relaunching Secret Agent X-9 #1 on Jan 27, and a hardcover of Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson's classic strip run lands Jan 13. 🍰 @OniPress January: Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake #1 (Jenna Ayoub and Damali Beatty), Dr. Syn #1 (Michael Uslan, Steven DeKnight and Sebastián Cabrol), and Archie in Hell #3 from Patrick Horvath and Tyler Crook. 🏹 Absolute Green Arrow #6 topped last week's in-store sales chart and outsold Avengers: Armageddon #5 by about two-thirds. The Absolute line is still rolling. 🖖 RIP Walter Koenig (90). He was Chekov forever, but he also wrote comics, including Raver for Malibu back in '93. Which one's going on your pull list? #comics #XMen #comicbooks #NewComics #MadCave

🎮 MONDAY GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP 🎮 Grab your coffee, it's a busy one. Here's what the gaming world is talking about today 👇 🌴 GTA VI: 24 DAYS OUT @RockstarGames is in full launch mode. GTA VI just got its first TV commercial, which @IGN says is a little different from the launch trailer. GTA VI ads also lit up the billboards during Saturday's El Clásico. It launches November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with digital preloads starting November 12. Meanwhile, Fox & Friends spent a segment fretting over whether grown adults should be playing it. Some things never change 😂 📺 PS PLUS CATALOG SHAKEUP GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 are among a batch of games about to leave the PlayStation Plus catalog. If they're on your backlog, now's the time. 🤠 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROCKSTAR CLASSICS Today, Oct 26, GTA: San Andreas turns 22 and Red Dead Redemption 2 turns 8. Same release date, two all-timers. And over the weekend, Battlefield 3 hit 15 years and Batman: Arkham City turned 15. @Polygon is calling Arkham City Batman's last gaming masterpiece. Agree? 🦇 💔 THE BIOWARE FALLOUT CONTINUES A week after EA announced it's closing BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and KOTOR, the aftershocks keep coming. @pushsquare reports EA is scrubbing Mass Effect from other games, and fans are rallying around #SaveMassEffect, pinning their hopes on @thegameawards on Dec 10. Reports also say EA has paused an unannounced Sims project, "Project Lotus," amid around 400 layoffs. Rough week for RPG fans. 🍄 MIYAMOTO MAKES HISTORY Shigeru Miyamoto is the first game creator ever named a recipient of Japan's Order of Culture. At his press conference, the Mario and Zelda legend talked about generative AI as a tool that frees people to focus on creation, while stressing that human vision stays essential. Legend status: confirmed. 🤖 SWEENEY VS. STEAM, ROUND 2 @TimSweeneyEpic doubled down on his criticism of Valve, calling Steam's AI content disclosure a "political act." Which side are you on? 🔪 CHUCKY'S CHECKING OUT @DeadbyBHVR announced that all Chucky content in Dead by Daylight will no longer be available to buy starting next month. Fans aren't happy. Grab him while you can. 🐉 QUICK HITS 🔸 Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 gets a free 10th anniversary update tomorrow (Oct 27), with a Final Festival on Oct 30. 🔸 Valve's invite-only Deadlock reportedly peaked above 300,000 concurrent Steam players. 🔸 The VALORANT Game Changers Championship playoffs are underway. 🔸 Ocarina of Time's Switch 2 remake arrives November 5. Who's counting down? 🗡️ What's the story you care about most today? Drop it below 👇 #GamingNews #GTA6 #GTAVI #BioWare #SaveMassEffect #MassEffect #Miyamoto #Nintendo #PlayStation #RDR2 #Gaming

New Comic Book Day is this Wednesday, Oct. 28, and it's a stacked one. Here are the 10 books I think everyone will be talking about 👇 1. Absolute Batman #25 (DC) – @Ssnyder1835 & Nick Dragotta The big Batman vs. Absolute Joker showdown, with Barbara Gordon stepping up. Reportedly 775K+ shop orders. 2. Absolute Wonder Woman #25 (DC) – Kelly Thompson & Hayden Sherman An oversized milestone issue and the debut of Absolute Cheetah. 3. DC All In Saga: Darkseid vs. the World #1 (DC) – @Ssnyder1835 & @Williamson_Josh, art by @sanfordgreene & Yasmine Putri 48 pages on how Uxas became Darkseid, and what he wants next. 4. Batman: Bad Seeds – Sunrise #1 (DC) – Matt Fraction & G. Willow Wilson, art by Giuseppe Camuncoli & Cliff Rathburn The Bad Seeds finale: stop Poison Ivy's prehistoric Gotham before dawn. 5. The Amazing Spider-Man #1002 (Marvel) – @thatJoeKelly & @PepeLarraz Spidey vs. Ravage, round three, and the villain's origin starts hitting close to home. 6. Daredevil #8 (Marvel) – Stephanie Phillips & @LeeGarbett New arc and jumping-on point. Mr. Fear is pushing a new drug at E.S.U. 7. Superman #43 (DC) – @Williamson_Josh & @Xermanico Xermánico's first issue as the ongoing artist. Clark chases a story into a Metropolis death cult. 8. Universal Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein Lives #1 (Skybound/Image) – Kelly Thompson & Mattia De Iulis Just in time for Halloween: the Bride wakes with no memory and goes looking for who she was. 9. X-Men #40 (Marvel) – @jedmackay (art team unconfirmed) A DNX tie-in: Psylocke hunts a monster alone on what might be a flying tomb. 10. Justice League: The Dark Realm Special #1 (DC) – Dan Mora Dan Mora writes AND draws, telling the origin of Cadejos, the fire-breathing wolf. What's on your pull list this week, and which one are you reading first? #NCBD #NewComicBookDay #ComicBooks #DCComics #Marvel

⚔️ FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE: REVIEW ROUNDUP ⚔️ Square Enix's HD-2D, turn-based Final Fantasy launched Oct 22 and critics are mostly cheering. Here's what the reviews actually say 👇 📊 THE SCORES (Metacritic) • Metascore: 86 from 51 critics (PS5, 98% positive, 1 mixed, 0 negative) • Switch 2: 82 | PC: 83 • User score: 9.0 from 160+ ratings (Universal Acclaim) It also hit 42K+ concurrent on Steam, a single-player Final Fantasy record. 📈 ✅ WHAT CRITICS LOVED ⚔️ The combat. Eurogamer, who scored it 3/5, still called it "a fantastic example of how to rewrite battle mechanics to suit a full-fat RPG." RPG Site (8/10) said it's "easily one of the best turn-based battle systems we've seen in the last decade." 🎨 The HD-2D art. IGN (8/10) says it "sets a new benchmark for HD-2D visuals," and Eurogamer called it "the best-looking HD-2D game I've ever played." 🔮 The Visions system and the nostalgia. HardZone (100) loves how the story, turn-based combat and flexible Visions fit together. DualShockers (100) says it bets on familiarity and feels "comforting yet refreshingly distinct." COGconnected (95) called it their game of the year so far. 🎵 The music. IGN calls it incredible, and GameSpot (7/10) calls it excellent. ⚠️ WHERE IT STUMBLES 📖 The story. This is the big one. IGN found long stretches of the storytelling "underwhelming." Eurogamer called the story "by far, the weakest facet," and Polygon (unscored) called it a missed opportunity. 📱 The mobile roots. It's built from Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. VGC (60 on Metacritic, 3/5) said it's fun but "just isn't an essential experience" next to the Pixel Remasters and HD-2D remakes. 🔁 Repetition and pacing. Cubed3 (6/10) found the combat "long, grindy and repetitive," and Eurogamer said it takes a good 10 hours to get going and the story only picks up around the 30-hour mark. 🗣️ Fans' gripes. A few low user reviews mention a half-baked English localization with untranslated Japanese audio in some cutscenes, no haptic feedback on PS5, and an uneven early game. They're a small minority, and 90% of user ratings are positive. 🗣️ WHAT THE FANS SAY The top user reviews are glowing. One calls it "a true love letter to fans of the golden age of RPGs" with combat that's "one of the best gameplay experiences in the franchise in decades," and plenty of players love the freedom of Visions builds. Even Eurogamer says everything clicks once you get the airship. 🏁 THE VERDICT (based on reviews) Come for crystals, job-style builds, boss fights and gorgeous pixel art and you'll probably have a blast. Come for a deep, original story and you might leave a bit disappointed. Either way, a turn-based Final Fantasy scoring 86 is a big win for the genre. 🙌 Are you picking up Final Fantasy Resonance, or waiting? And is turn-based back for good? 👇 @SquareEnix @FinalFantasy #FinalFantasy #FFResonance #JRPG #TurnBased #HD2D #SquareEnix #Gaming