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TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2026 – Week Six Sees Two More Players on the Score Board

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And both players ended up with decent scores.  We’re here at week six… which means just forty-six weeks left to go in the league… and there were a pile of updates.

Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Football, but for Video Games

We are now far enough in that I am going to follow the pattern of posting the previous week’s score so we can see how things changed over the last seven days.

Week 5 Scores

As we see, only three people even had scores last week, with Shintar leading the pack with two titles released already and the league predicting her for victory and the crown.

The first thing that popped up on Monday was a score update for Dragon Quest VII Reimagined.

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined

The title was out the gate strong with some early reviews.

  • Dragon Quest VII Reimagined
    • [Picked by Corr’s Creative Collective (Corr)]
    • Now has a score of 85.1

85 is a solid score and, when it hit its release at the turn of the day to Thursday, that put Corr up on the scoreboard, landing him in second place.

  • Publisher Score Updates
    • Corr’s Creative Collective (Corr)
      • Score has gone UP from 0 to 14.6
      • Moved from 10th place to 2nd place
    • Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)
      • Moved from 2nd place to 3rd place
    • Anthania Interactive (Ula)
      • Moved from 3rd place to 4th place

Shintar held onto first, but both Nimgimli and Ula dropped back a position.

The same day we got the first score in for Nioh 3, the other title set to launch last week.

  • Nioh 3
    • [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
    • Now has a score of 86.9

Again, another strong showing, and as the next day dawned we saw another shift in the scoreboard as Cyanbane arrived.

Nioh 3

However, between that first score and the release it sagged a bit on more reviews… and Dragon Quest climbed a bit.  Not by much, but enough to leave Corr in second place for now.

  • Publisher Score Updates
    • Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)
      • Score has gone UP from 0 to 14.8
      • Moved from 13th place to 3rd place
    • Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)
      • Moved from 3rd place to 4th place
    • Anthania Interactive (Ula)
      • Moved from 4th place to 5th place

Nioh 3 moved up and down a bit as more reviews came in.

  • Nioh 3
    • [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
    • Score has gone DOWN from 84.8 to 83.7
  • Nioh 3
    • [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
    • Score has gone UP from 83.7 to 84.7

But it did not move enough to change the rankings on the board.

That was all we had for score updates that warranted a ping by the league bot, so the scoreboard ended up looking like this come Saturday evening.

Week 6 Scores

Shintar remains both in first place and the league pick for winner.  However, the league is favoring Potshot for second place and Nimgimli for last.  As usual, the league estimate is pretty wild until we get closer to the end of the year, but it is interesting to watch it evolve.

Then there were bids, where we had three new titles picked, and three counter picks in play.  Those were resolved like this:

  • Bids in TAGN League
    • PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant
      • Won by Frabjous Day Enterprises (Archey) with a bid of $10
    • Life is Strange: Reunion
      • Won by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli) with a bid of $8
      • Dropped game ‘Unannounced Fallout 3 Re-Something‘ conditionally
  • MLB The Show 26
    • Won by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane) with a bid of $1
    • Dropped game ‘LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight‘ conditionally

Then there were the counter picks:

  • Counter Picks in TAGN League
    • Unannounced Witcher 3 DLC
      • Won by Rusty Shackleford (Shilgrod) with a bid of $8 (🎯 Counter Pick)
    • Star Wars Zero Company
      • Won by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane) with a bid of $1 (🎯 Counter Pick)
    • Unannounced Fallout 3 Re-Something
      • Hidalgo Trading Company (Pallais)’s bid of $10 did not succeed: Game is no longer eligible: Game has been dropped by the other player. (🎯 Counter Pick)
      • TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)’s bid of $6 did not succeed: Game is no longer eligible: Game has been dropped by the other player. (🎯 Counter Pick)

So there were three new titles picked, but two conditional drops, for a new increase of one pick.

And the counter picks… a gutsy move by Cyanbane, shorting Star Wars Zero Company… though I guess there is a rumor out that it will be pushed to 2027.

Shilgrod jumped on that Unannounced Witcher 3 DLC, which seems like a pretty reasonable counter pick right now.

And then Pallais might have out bid me in the rush to grab the Unannounced Fallout 3 Re-Something counter pick, but Nimgimli got out from underneath it with a conditional drop once we all found out that the count down was not for a remake but just for something related to the show.  That pulled the rug on that counter pick.

And then there were some release timing updates.

  • The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales
    • [Picked by Corr’s Creative Collective (Corr)]
    • Release date changed from ‘2026’ to ‘Thursday, June 18, 2026’.
  • Orbitals
    • [Picked by Pretty Blue Fox Games (Bhagpuss)]
    • Estimated release date changed from ‘2026’ to ‘Summer 2026’.
  • Planet of Lana II – Children of the Leaf
    • [Picked by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)]
    • Release date changed from ‘Early 2026’ to ‘Thursday, March 05, 2026’.

All of that leaves the next ten upcoming titles as follows.

Coming Up for Week 7

This coming week is going to be a big week with SIX titles going live.  In fact, there was already a score update for one of them.

  • Mewgenics
    • [Picked by TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)]
    • Now has a score of 90.1

Looking like a strong pick for me, though we’ll have to see how it holds as reviews come in and launch day hits.  And that is where we stand at the end of week six.

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