🔥 Hot take: FFXIV's new weekly "Adventurer Activity" system for Evercold is the best quality-of-life change the game has made in years. No more feeling chained to daily roulettes. You earn weekly points your way, through dungeons, PvP, crafting, or story, with catch-up options if life gets busy. Square Enix says it's not a paid battle pass. Yeah, the UI looks a little battle-pass-y in the screenshots. But for those of us who log in to hang with our FC and vent on some mobs after a long day, flexibility > FOMO every time. 🏝️ We'll know more at Fan Fest in Tokyo this weekend. Warriors of Light: love it or worried? 👇 @FF_XIV_EN #FFXIV #Evercold #MMORPG

More comics news from today 👇 🍿 Joe Bob Fights for the Drive-In is coming from @DarkHorseComics on July 20! @JoeBobBriggs brings his wit, redneck philosophy and B-movie obsession to the page (details via @BDisgusting). 🖋️ Ram V (@therightram) is launching his own creators' studio, Mirror Maker, with a YouTube channel, plus a preview of Deicidium Vol. 1 from @ImageComics (via @screenrant). 🪓 D'Orc Vol. 2 from @2dbean is out December 9 from @ImageComics, with a Direct Market exclusive variant. The half dwarf, half orc prophesied to destroy the world would still really rather not. 🧛 Vampire Hunter D: Fortress of Blood, the first official comic series set in Hideyuki Kikuchi's world, is a 4-issue run from @DarkHorseComics starting December 16. 🏍️ @OniPress shared interior pages from Judge Dredd / Biker Mice from Mars #1. 🦇 Heads up for tomorrow: DC All In Saga: Darkseid Vs The World doubles as an Absolute Batman comic (spoilers via @bleedingcool). #comics #DCComics #ImageComics #DarkHorse #Dorc

🎮 Tuesday night gaming roundup. RPG fans, this one's for you 👇 ⚔️ Final Fantasy Resonance just set a record for a single-player FF on Steam, peaking at 42,885 concurrent players and passing FFVII Rebirth's ~40K. HD-2D, turn-based, jobs and crystals. Classic FF is SO back. @FinalFantasy @SquareEnix 📚 Library of Ruina now holds the Guinness World Record for longest video game story, at about 113 hours. That's roughly 12 hours longer than Persona 5 Royal 😳 🏰 FFXIV teased a new weekly "Adventurer Activity" system for Evercold that swaps daily roulettes and tome caps for weekly points from dungeons, PvP, crafting, or story. Full details come at Fan Fest in Tokyo this weekend. @FF_XIV_EN 🌄 ArcheAge Chronicles hits Steam Early Access Nov 3 for $29.99, one day before WoW: Forever drops. Brave or risky? 👀 🧛 Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is still riding high, with a 10/10 from GameSpot and an 8.6 from IGN. Rose Belmont is carrying the 40th anniversary 🔥 🗡️ Phantom Blade Zero launches Oct 29 and is already topping Steam's global best-sellers. Preload is live, but it needs up to 145 GB on PC 💾 🏈 Madden 27 Ultimate Team just dropped 90 OVR LTD Josh Allen and Harrison Smith cards, and folks are NOT happy with Allen's 85 speed. @EAMaddenNFL 🎵 Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 is 9 days out (Nov 5). What are YOU playing tonight? 👇 #Gaming #JRPG #FFXIV #FinalFantasy #Castlevania #Metroidvania #MMORPG #Madden27

Comics news roundup for Tuesday, Oct 27 📰 🕊️ RIP Tetsuya Chiba, the manga legend behind Ashita no Joe, who has died at 87. His career started in 1956, and Joe Yabuki's "burn down to pure white ash" ending still echoes through boxing stories and Megalobox decades later. 📦 A big batch of publishers has struck a new deal in the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy: @DarkHorseComics, @OniPress, Titan, @thevaultcomics, Aspen, Black Mask, Dstlry, Heavy Metal, Magnetic, Massive, Panini UK, Alien and Graphic Mundi (via @bleedingcool). 🔥 Indie favorite White Ash Comics is joining @IDWPublishing. The White Ash universe will be remastered with new bonus stories and released in its originally intended format for the first time (first look via @screenrant). 🏀 @ArchieComics has revealed a first look at @SHAQ's Vengeance Unchained: The Legend of Black Caesar #1, on sale December 2. #comics #comicbooks #manga #NCBD

Hot take: putting Firestar and Justice on Maximum X-Men is the smartest roster call Marvel's made all year. 🔥 They were Avengers. They were mutants. And before all that, they were New Warriors. Those two have always been the bridge between the X-books and the Avengers. Now give the New Warriors a real ongoing again. Who's with me, and who's on your dream New Warriors lineup? #MaximumXMen #NewWarriors #Marvel #XMen

🗞️ Tuesday Night Comics Roundup (Oct 27) • WORM is finally becoming a comic! @IDWPublishing is adapting Wildbow's legendary superhero-horror web serial, with Meghan Fitzmartin writing, Javier Ortiz on art, David Vaquero on colors, and Andriy Lukin on letters. John McCrae is consulting. A free prequel arrives on Comics Giveaway Day (May 1, 2027), and #1 lands in July. • G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero/Tomb Raider #1 SOLD OUT at the distributor level. @Skybound is rushing it back to print on Dec 2 with a new Annie Wu cover. Kyle Higgins and Elena Casagrande are the creative team. • Dan Mora makes his WRITING debut tomorrow in Justice League: The Dark Realm Special #1, telling the origin of Cadejos, the fire-breathing wolf of the JLU. He's writing AND drawing it. • Universal Monsters: Bride of Frankenstein Lives #1 also hits tomorrow from Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis (@ImageComics). Which one's going in your pull list? 👇 #comics #comicbooks #NCBD #Worm #GIJoe #EnergonUniverse

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