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Take your own advice – Game share

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I keep saying I’ll do a comic book post – and I will. But tonight it will be another games update. Because I need to vent.

Grand Theft Auto

First, Grand Theft Auto. Lots of leaks happening right now for GTA VI, and I am still very excited to play the game. The price point is very high, and the game limited to consoles for now (without a physical version), which I find I am playing less and less on, and instead playing on the PC whenever possible. Even transferring saves and re-buying content, just for the comfort of playing on the PC (more on that later below. See: Star Wars Rant). Still gonna get it, still gonna play it. The leaks are showing a lot and I’m convinced it’s just more of the same Rockstar energy and attention to detail we’ve seen in GTA V and RDR II, and gameplay systems on top of game play systems on top of gameplay systems.

So in the meantime, I’ve been playing GTA IV. I have a lot of fond memories of this game back on the Xbox 360, and haven’t re-played it since it originally came out in 2008. I bought the complete edition, and installed some of the fusion fx mods to spruce it up a bit. Good times, Niko.

Halo: Campaign Evolved

In co-op news, Illestrader and I have started Halo: Campaign Evolved. The Unreal Engine Remake, made to help forge friendships between Xbox (sorry, XBOX – gotta get the new branding right) and PS. One of the XBOX’s first exclusives, and now last big exclusives to be shared. That was all before the break-up. Then PlayStation said “no more” to PC ports on their exclusive titles. And then XBOX went “fine! No more sharing our exclusives”. And the war restarted. A lot like Canadian and American politics, when you think about it. XBOX is Canada.

The game is pretty – and fun. Pretty fun. The OG Halo was a classic, with fun gameplay and amazing music. That’s all retained. And now with 4 player co-op and no multiplayer. And all the other quality of life improvements that have come to the sequels over the many years. Pistol is still – happy to report – OP.

Had a funny bug in our last play session, where one of our buddy's name displayed as "friendgamertag1".

Star Wars Outlaws

Ok, lastly, and the real motivation behind this post – Star Wars Outlaws. I last played this game back in February. I’m about 12 hours in and was steadily plugging away at it in-between other games, on the Xbox console. But as I mentioned, finding the time to do that (as it’s the shared family tv central entertainment hub) is becoming harder. And I just don’t find it as comfortable staring up at a big tv while gaming anymore. I prefer the comfort of the desk and computer chair and the monitor.

I don’t have the best PC but it’s still good enough to play most new games on decent settings.

Now, here’s what grinds my gears about the XBOX/PC ecosystem. Especially when it comes to Ubisoft and EA.

I have Game Pass Ultimate which includes PC Game Pass. And Game Pass now includes Ubisoft+. Star Wars Outlaws is a Ubisoft title, which you cannot get through the Xbox PC storefront, as it needs to be through the Ubisoft store. It’s not an XBOX Play Anywhere title.

I originally bought the game on the XBOX console. The ultimate edition with the season pass. This doesn’t give me access to it on the PC side.

However. The game is now on XBOX/PC Game Pass, included through Ubisoft+. So I technically have the game on the PC now. And the game supports cloud saves. As a quick aside, cloud saves, where you have to manually upload and download, a very annoying “feature”. As I was saying, the game supports cloud saves. So on the XBOX I uploaded my cloud save to the Ubisoft network. On the PC side I installed the game and downloaded the cloud save. Thinking I’m good to go. But I ran into one final problem. Ultimate edition downstairs, PC base version upstairs. Did not compute. I had this same issue with Cyberpunk 2077. Luckily the season pass on the PC Ubisoft was on ridiculous sale due to Gamescom, so I just rebought it, and now I can comfortably, and conveniently play on the PC.

But!!!! No XBOX achievements through Ubisoft connect. Even retro-actively if I was to import my save again downstairs. Another bummer. I wish it was just smoother. That my purchases were recognized considering I have access to the base game now through PC Game Pass. Ubisoft, you already have my money, one way or another.

I also wish the achievements worked. How come The First Descendant is able to cross-platform the achievements across Xbox and Steam? But EA and Ubisoft can’t?

In conclusion, I am annoyed. But not so stubborn to give up on the dream. So I will continue on the PC, achievement-less.

iRogan
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2026-08-24

She’s a Demon Hunter? – Art House

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Comics Talk might be a little bit more in-depth to tackle tonight (I wanted to reserve comic talk for Wednesday, but that’s also co-op game night…. hmm a conflict) Anyways, here’s a few drawings I’ve been working on over the past 6 months. Warning: this will be an image-heavy post.

Last post in February I finished the art section with K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Rumi. My regret is I haven’t made much progress on this trio. I’ve started inking Zoey, and started colouring Rumi, but haven’t made any additional progress on Mira. I hope to work on this group a bit more before the end of the year. Leaving drawing incomplete is a real bummer. But burnout is also a thing.

Next up is one of my favourite characters to draw recently, and I’m currently reading the comic series. Queen in Black. Hela. This first attempt I went all-in, and completed it right through to becoming a poster for the wall.

First was just the idea in my head, and completed in one night. But I knew at this point it needed to be a fully realized pin-up.

So next up is the progress steps, between pencil, ink, flats. And then finally finished colour.

After Hela I got the urge to draw Absolute Zatanna Zatarra from the Absolute Wonder Woman comic. From Sketch to Inks. To full colour. This one was a lot of fun.

Still had the urge for more Hela, Queen in Black:

Next up, Magik. Wasn’t entirely happy with this quick output, but it quenched the urges to draw on that night, and Magik is always a fun one to draw. Overall not bad, but the pose is intended to be her bracing against her sword – but it didn’t really land.

After this I was really getting in the game Dispatch, which I mentioned in the last post, and worked on a few of the characters. Hopefully will find the time to do some more. But for now, Blonde Blazer and Invisigal. For Invisigal, I had a few ideas for how I would illustrate the invisibility. Ended up just removing the colour instead to show the background gradient. But kept blue lines to convey the invisibility. Turned out kinda neat.

Some more heroes and villains next. First Wonder Woman. I was inspired by a minimalist silhouette drawing that I’d seen, very little details, dark stormy night. I wanted to try and recreate it myself. Lines, shading, and then some effects and colour. Very happy with the results. Went ’till 2am though, that night.

Some Harley Quinn is always fun to draw, with her many different costume suits. For the Harley Bat, I had some inspiration with Harley surrounded by zombies. Maybe reading too much of The Walking Dead. So I wanted to do a mash-up/crossover with Harley and Lucille and zombies. Cal it the Laughing Dead. Didn’t get to fully realize it as I got lazy and didn’t want to draw a bunch of zombies. But I still have the sketch saved somewhere, in the event I want to pick it up again. Maybe if I can find a Walking Dead blank cover, I could do something.

Watched Supergirl over the summer. Yes I enjoyed it. Milly is great. Lobo was a lot of fun. Layers and then the completed picture. The flats might make a good canvas block.

Last up, Cyberpunk’s Lucy, from Edgerunners. Looking forward to season 2 of the show. Not entirely happy with the drawing. But it was still a fun challenge, trying to create an anime character in my style.

And then as per tradition, we have my annual #faceyourart. The challenge where you are supposed to post only the faces from your drawings. Here’s the last 12 months of faces (Aug 2025 – Aug 2026) which includes last year’s drawtober submissions:

While I mostly work digitally, I do like to display my art through different mediums. Such as posters on my wall or the art blocks. Earlier this year I saw these cool magnet 8×6 frames that can stand on their own, and thought it would be cool to gets some prints made and display some art on my desk, or shelf, or wherever. Here’s a few examples. I only got the package of 3 frames for now as a test. But I made about 40 different 8×6 prints and I can swap them around as needed.

Drawtober 2026 is just around the corner, so next week I might start thinking about my plans.

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That catches us up to current. Next post I’ll have more comic book news. What I’m currently reading, week to week. Maybe some collection stats. What’s up-coming. Also I went to Fan Expo back in Feb, and I’ll share some of my photos from that event and the artists/writers I met and work I got signed. It was a lot of fun.

G’night.
Rogan

Inktober Day 9

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Inktober 2025 – DC

Now that Thanksgiving has passed, I can return to these Inktober drawings. A few days behind so I’ll have to play catch-up.

I’m not overly fond of drawing male characters – as anyone who knows me can attest, but this month I think 2/3rds of my planned characters will be male, so it is a good time to work on getting better.

Today is Bane – the man who broke batman’s back.

Day 9: Heavy
Day 9: Bane
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