Following speculation about who might play the character in Wednesday season 3, the mysterious Aunt Ophelia has officially been cast. Eva Green will take the role (via Deadline), portraying Morticia's sister in the next installment of the Netflix series.

Aunt Ophelia played a small role in Wednesday season 2, though only the back of her head is actually visible, leaving the actor behind Ophelia, who will seemingly serve as a foil for Jenna Ortega's Wednesday, still obscured.

Aunt Ophelia is the sister of Wednesday's mother Morticia, played by Catherine Zeta Jones in the streaming series. Ophelia shares Wednesday's psychic gifts, though she's apparently been held in captivity by Wednesday's Grandmama, the mother of both Morticia and Ophelia.

Cult favorite filmmaker Tim Burton serves as an executive producer on Wednesday, having also directed several episodes of the first season. Green and Burton previously worked together on the films Dumbo, an adaptation of the animated Disney movie, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which is itself an adaptation of the book series by Ransom Riggs.

Wednesday is, of course, based on the characters of The Addams Family, originally created by cartoonist Charles Addams all the way back in 1938. The original comic strip and its eventual TV and film adaptations focus primarily on twisted interpretations of everyday family life with a wry gothic flair. Wednesday escalates the concept to include a series of bizarre murder mysteries and secrets to uncover around the macabre Nevermore Academy and its many students and faculty.

The first two seasons of Wednesday are currently streaming on Netflix. Need a refresher? Then check out our Wednesday season 2 part 2 ending explained.

In what seems to be the only good news related to publisher Krafton right now, the Last Epoch developer it bought in July hasn't been warped by its aggressive pivot to becoming an "AI-first company" above all else. At least not yet.

Eleventh Hour Games broke its silence on whether you'll have to pay for Last Epoch's upcoming Orobyss expansion after spending years—as an indie developer—promising players everything would be free. The answer is no: Last Epoch's expansion will be free to anyone who already owns the base game, and it will be packed in for anyone who buys the game after it's out.

Last month, EHG founder Judd Cobler said the studio would "maybe" have to charge something for the expansion, as the game's first three seasons haven't been profitable. But now it looks like EHG will hold to the promise it made when it ran a Kickstarter for the game in 2018.

There's a small catch here though: Alongside the expansion a new "Paradox class" will be released and it will have a price that won't be revealed until later. In the announcement post on Reddit, Cobler describes it as a "fully alternate playable class built on systems that work differently from anything else in the game." The one coming with Orobyss won't be the last, either, as EHG plans to "experiment in new and innovative ways" with more classes in the future.

That last bit is too vague for me to have a strong feeling about it, but that hasn't stopped fans from speculating that it's just a sneaky way for EHG to charge players for something other than expansions and cosmetics. There's zero evidence for that, but there are fans with more reasonable concerns that paid classes could outshine the existing ones in a potential pay-to-win scenario.

Last Epoch is an action RPG where you click monsters until loot pops out of them. It's not a competitive PvP game and there's no reward for ranking high on its leaderboards other than prestige. Just like when Blizzard released a ridiculously overpowered new class for Diablo 4's paid expansion, it won't do anything to people not playing it other than make them feel jealous that they didn't swipe their card. For some people, however, it's about the principle of only letting you play with the fancy new stuff if you pay, and I can at least sympathize with that.

Orobyss will be released next year, but it will be preceded by two seasons with plenty of updates to the base game. Cobler says the gap between seasons will remain longer than the studio wants at the moment because it's busy hiring new people and preparing for the game's launch on PlayStation 5.

At the end of the post, Cobler addresses the skepticism that Krafton's AI obsession will trickle down to EHG. "To be clear, our development approach is not changing," he says. "We remain focused on building Last Epoch the same way we always have, with the same hands-on design philosophy."

That's a promising thing to hear after just about every headline about Krafton lately has been absolutely harrowing, especially if you would like to see games like Last Epoch, PUBG, and Subnautica 2 not get pulled into the "AI-first" black hole.

Sandbox game Hytale was only surviving until now, bruised badly by cancellation and studio closure before it recently got back in the warm hands of its creators at Hypixel. According to CEO Simon Collins-Laflamme, even this new chapter of existence has sometimes been difficult for Hytale – but things seem to finally be happier after a successful round of playtests this week.

While, not long ago, Collins-Laflamme said "the game is not good enough" to release in Early Access yet, he seems to be in better spirits about the Minecraft-like now. He says in a November 25 post on Twitter, "Over 60 people play-tested Hytale yesterday and gave us great feedback and bug reports! Things are doing well!"

"There are ongoing tests the whole week and we should have some hardware min spec estimate later this week," Collins-Laflamme continues. "We also did a 15-player SMP with the dev team in the morning, it was nice to see things coming together at last!"

While Hytale hasn't been wholly reborn, this is still a promising change for a game whose 10 years in development have often been muddied by setbacks. Acknowledging this, creator Collins-Laflamme continues to say there's still a "long way to go, but momentum is key."

"We are doing large-scale server tests later this week, and some PvP!" the dev continues to say. Hypixel will also soon release a new blog post regarding Hytale's Creative Mode, along with raw gameplay footage, and "a bunch of screenshots" from playtesters.

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