The Real Madrid defended is injured and, like Lamine Yamal and Rodri, is called off from la Roja.
The “FIFA virus” has spread quite rapidly this international break at the Spanish national team, with now three players from Luis de la Fuente’s initial squad list being called off due to injuries. The first one was Lamine Yamal, only hours after his call from the national team last Friday: he suffered a groin problem and will also miss some Barça matches (returning to the Clásico against Real Madrid on October 26).
Then, it was Rodri, Spain captain and Ballon d’Or midfielder for Manchester City, who hasn’t fully recovered from his almost year long injury last year, and only lasted 22 minutes in his latest match for Manchester City.
And now is Dean Huijsen, the defender for Real Madrid, who suffers some “muscle fatigue” coming from seven appearances in LaLiga. After missing training on Tuesday, he went to some medical tests and they found the muscle injury.
Yamal was replaced by Borja Iglesias from Celta de Vigo, who returns to the national team two years after renouncing due to the Rubiales affair. Huijsen’s place will be filled by Aymeric Laporte from Athletic Club, whose last appearance with Spain happened in November 2024.
Besides fixed players like Yamal, Rodri and Huijsen, two other regular players from the Spanish national team are injured and were not called, Dani Carvajal and Nico Williams.
Spain plays their next two matches against Georgia and Bulgaria at home, and are leaders of their group.

But it was obviously Ferenc.
Obsidian’s Pentiment is one of the most interesting games of the last several years. Set in 16th-century Bavaria, the game tasks you—journeyman artist Andreas Maler—with figuring out who keeps doin’ murders in the town of Tassing. There are plenty of potential suspects you can point the finger at, and you have to choose one whether you’ve got damning evidence or not.
Spoiler: you will never have damning evidence. Regardless of who you send under the headsman’s axe, you’ll always have a queasy feeling that they might not be the one who did it.
In a chat with PCG at this year’s GDC, Pentiment director Josh Sawyer said that’s entirely the point. “From the very beginning I said, ‘I think that for this to be compelling in the way that I want it to be, there cannot be a right answer'”. In fact, it sounds like Sawyer himself doesn’t have a clear culprit in mind for the game’s evildoings. “People on the team would ask me [who the culprit is], then people at Xbox would ask me, and I’m like, ‘No! There isn’t!’ And I will say that there are people who, in retrospect… seem more likely to have done it, but that doesn’t mean they did it.”
Sawyer, who also led development on games like Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity, approached the issue of (not) selecting a culprit from the perspective of an RPG maker. “When there’s always a right answer and it’s a puzzle and you kind of either get it right or you get it wrong… I just don’t think there’s a lot there from an RPG developer’s perspective.
“It made me think, well, what if you didn’t know and you just had to keep going, right? And in the way that we do RPGs: choice and consequences, we say, ‘You made this choice. If you have second thoughts, you’ve just got to live with that'”.
And the role you have in Pentiment? Andreas. “You’re not a detective, you’re a fucking artist. You’re not good at this”, says Sawyer. “You’re doing the best you can to prevent a good friend who—very obviously—is not the person who did it, from dying.” That’s Piero, the lovely old monk who’s initially fingered for murder.
“That was the other thing… Andreas, the character you’re playing, he is motivated to prevent Piero from dying, and will never offer him up, because it’s inconceivable to him that Piero could have done this. That’s sort of like, sorry player, Andreas will not allow Piero to die. You have to pick someone else.”

For the 69th episode, we talk about the elephant in the room and how the best deal in gaming turned on its consumers.
For many years, Game Pass has been regarded as the best deal in gaming, simply because for a low monthly cost, you would get access to online multiplayer on Xbox consoles, a massive library of titles you can play as and when you see fit including day one Xbox Game Studios launches, and a slate of added extra perks too. Game Pass was almost an unreasonably good deal, but as with all good things, they come to an end.
Last week, Microsoft announced massive price hikes for Game Pass, which basically doubled the cost of the package most people associate as Game Pass. Granted, there are other tiers to grab instead, but the value for money is nowhere near as good as it was, and frankly subscribers need to be checking out lots of games via the service to be able to get value from the huge leap in cost.
With this extreme change in mind, we’ve dedicated much of the latest episode of The Gamereactor Show to the Game Pass changes and how these will impact Xbox in the short and long run, and how they likely signify the ultimate direction that Xbox is going as a company.
Catch the episode below, where we also reminisce about good and bad gaming memories and test our knowledge with a wacky quiz. Also, don’t forget to listen on your podcast provider of choice, be it Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, or Spreaker.