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It’s immediately apparent how much better the game is in season 4, Loot Reborn
Diablo 4 Season 4's massive Loot Reborn update may have been just what the doctor ordered, as fans are praising it as the "best season start so far" for Blizzard's ARPG.
It's been a bumpy road up until this point. Despite fairly positive reviews upon release, player sentiment on Diablo 4 took a downturn by the time the game's first season came out, with players criticizing how its gear progression worked and its lack of endgame content. While new seasons did introduce changes alongside various new systems and mechanics, they still left players underwhelmed. When Diablo 4 launched on Steam in October 2023, it quickly found itself with a "Mixed" average user review rating.
That doesn't appear to be the case with Season 4, which dramatically reworked the game's loot to make it more powerful, upgradable, and easier to acquire and customize than ever before. The result is praise on places like Reddit and "Mostly Positive" recent reviews on Steam, which was not the case for previous season launches.
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John Wick may be gone, but the world he lived in will continue. The first spin-off film, Ballerina, starring Ana De Armas, was recently pushed back to 2025. Now, there's a second spin-off movie in the works that will feature Donnie Yen reprising his role as the blind assassin Caine from John Wick: Chapter 4.
Via The Hollywood Reporter, the movie will take place after the events of John Wick: Chapter 4, which left Caine free of any remaining obligations to the High Table. However, the post-credits scene featured Caine in Paris as Shimazu Akira (Rina Sawayama) prepared to attack him and avenge her father's death at his hands. It's unknown if the new film will address that cliffhanger.
Yen helped shape his depiction of Caine in Chapter 4, and director Chad Stahelski agreed to make the changes to Caine's name and appearance at Yen's request. Stahelski is also developing the Caine spin-off, which will be written by Robert Askins.
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As Ubisoft looks forward to its 2025 fiscal year, the company has decided to cancel its free-to-play Division game, The Division Heartland.
Heartland was announced back in 2021, with Ubisoft aiming to have the game in players’ hands by 2022. The planned release window didn’t work out, but in September 2022 we got another look at Heartland, and the game appeared to have everything you’d expect from a free-to-play multiplayer shooter. The game mixed in survival elements, pitting players against enemies swarming the fictional midwestern town of Silver Creek.
In Ubisoft's fiscal earnings earlier today, mixed in with all the numbers and projections, was the Heartland news. The company wrote, “In line with the increased selectivity of its investments, Ubisoft has decided to stop development on The Division Heartland and has redeployed resources to bigger opportunities such as XDefiant and Rainbow Six.”
Ubisoft's road ahead seems to be focusing on only the biggest money makers. Last year fans were disappointed when the company canceled plans for an Immortal Fenyx Rising sequel, and of course, the company followed general industry trends by laying off employees. According to the earnings report, Ubisoft cut 1,700 jobs over the course of just 18 months.
Interestingly, Ubisoft’s back catalog seems to have been one of its most reliable streams of revenue. The report specifically calls out Rainbow Six Siege as being a huge boon to the company, and unsurprisingly the Assassin’s Creed franchise also helped grease the wheels. Hopefully that will encourage Ubisoft to reexamine its decision to revoke digital licenses for old games like it did with The Crew just last month.
The world wasn’t exactly dying for another free-to-play shooter, but it’s still disappointing to see a game that devs worked on for years suddenly get the ax. Maybe Ubisoft was hoping to avoid another release like Skull and Bones, while also drawing attention to its bigger upcoming releases like Star Wars Outlaws and XDefiant.
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3 Body Problem is getting a second season. Netflix announced the news that its adaptation of Cixin Liu’s award-winning sci-fi trilogy is getting more episodes, with David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo returning as executive producers and writers.
3 Body Problem follows a group of scientists as they struggle with the realization that humanity isn’t the only species in the universe and that its nearest neighbors are far more technologically advanced and very mean. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Liam Cunningham, Rosalind Chao, Zine Tseng, and Benedict Wong. Though the 3 Body Problem book trilogy spans several centuries, through cryogenic shenanigans, most characters from the present-day timeline should remain throughout the...
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