We’re now past week thirty-one, where we had just a single title ship. But it was a pick AND a counter pick, so at least it had double the impact. Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Football, but for Video Games But before we get to how that played out, we will start off with how the scoreboard looked before the events of the week hit. Week 30 Scores Things were already in motion as the one release for the week had already landed some reviews during week thirty. Pulling the entry last week, Halo: Campaign Evolved, was ready to go. Halo: Campaign Evolved Picked by TAGN HQ (Wilhelm) Counter Picked by Pretty Blue Fox Games (Bhagpuss) Now has a score of 83.3 I was a little worried about this one. Early in the year its release date got pushed out to Q4 and it felt like it might not ship. Then it got pulled back in for a July release just as Microsoft was preparing to slash and burn on the staffing front at XBox Games, which is likely why reviews seem to be noting some issues with the game. So it went from maybe not shipping in 2026 to feeling like it might have been shoved out the door prematurely, which is something that tends to lead to low scoring reviews. Halo: Campaign Evolved But Halo: Campaign Evolved… has done okay. How much of that is because, behind the glitches, there is a good game, and how much of it is not kicking a dev team when they’re being decimated to satisfy the AI gods… well, I cannot be sure. I’ve never played a Halo title and I am not going to start now, so I’ll just take the reviewer’s word for it. When Halo launched on Tuesday it had not impact on my position, except to push me a bit further into first place I suppose, but did knock Bhagpuss down a notch. Publisher Score Updates S Class Warfare Studios (p0tsh0t) Moved from 9th place to 8th place Pretty Blue Fox Games (Bhagpuss) Score has gone DOWN from 43.0 to 30.2 Moved from 8th place to 9th place And that was all the planned excitement for the week. Halo launched and held firm at 83 even as it approached 90 reviews. We did get a few score updates. On the upside, week twenty-nine’s The Incident at Gallery House saw a boost in its score. The Incident at Galley House [Picked by Rodent Entertainment (Arhanta)] Score has gone UP from 82.5 to 83.8 Then there were the week thirty titles, both of which took a score hit on further reviews. Splatoon Raiders [Picked by Hidalgo Trading Company (Pallais)] Score has gone DOWN from 83.7 to 80.2 Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game [Picked by Crash and Burn Games (Shawn)] Score has gone DOWN from 79.0 to 77.5 That saw some shifting on the scoreboard, as Shawn’s descent lifted up Shilgrod and Archey. Publisher Score Updates Rusty Shackleford (Shilgrod) Moved from 12th place to 11th place Frabjous Day Enterprises (Archey) Moved from 13th place to 12th place Crash and Burn Games (Shawn) Score has gone DOWN from 17.0 to 15.5 Moved from 11th place to 13th place That change didn’t hold. Something likely rebounded, as everybody got moved around a day later. Publisher Score Updates Crash and Burn Games (Shawn) Moved from 13th place to 11th place Rusty Shackleford (Shilgrod) Moved from 11th place to 12th place Frabjous Day Enterprises (Archey) Moved from 12th place to 13th place Then Splatoon Raiders rallied a bit and came back up. Splatoon Raiders [Picked by Hidalgo Trading Company (Pallais)] Score has gone UP from 80.5 to 81.7 That is still less than where it started the week, but still up from its low point. All of which left the scoreboard looking like this. Week 31 scores Arhanta’s projection went up a bit, no doubt due to this week’s bids. Bids in TAGN League Kena: Scars of Kosmora Won by Rodent Entertainment (Arhanta) with a bid of $2 Dropped game ‘Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000’ conditionally Just one bid this week, but it saw Arhanta dump Total War: Warhammer 40,000 for Kena: Scars of Kosmora. In addition to that, we had a single date change. Pokemon Pokopia: Bubbly Basin [Picked by Play Forever Mwahahaha (Shintar)] Release date changed from ‘August 2026’ to ‘Wednesday, August 05, 2026’ That puts another title into the mix for next week, with the upcoming titles looking like this. Week 32 Coming Up That gives us four titles in play next week, for four different people. That could shake the board up a bit more. And then it looks like we’ll be taking the following two weeks off while we wait for one more title to show up at the end of the month. Related: TAGN Fantasy Critic League TAGN Discord Server Fantasy Critic Site Fantasy Critic How to Play Fantasy Critic FAQ Fantasy Critic Most Desired Reviews Open Critic Review Site