The 0.2.0 update for Path of Exile 2 has not been well-received to put it lightly. A heavy hand on the nerf hammer has driven away a significant chunk of those players who like action RPGs for the monster-blasting action, revealing a core tension at the heart of Path of Exile 2's design, as Russell Adderson put it.

Eleventh Hour Games, the studio behind competing action RPG Last Epoch, put itself in the perfect position to benefit—like Jon Lovitz lurking behind the curtain off-stage in The Wedding Singer. It delayed Last Epoch's Season 2 update, Tombs of the Erased, launching at the perfect time to pick up a bunch of disaffected Path of Exile 2 players.

"We've recently learned that our friends in the ARPG space have chosen a release date just a couple days after ours which would divide the player base and hinder the success of our Season 2 launch", as game director Judd "Moxx" Cobbler announced on the Last Epoch forum, explaining that Tombs of the Erased would instead launch on April 17.

As SteamDB shows, it worked. Last Epoch went from a few thousand concurrent players to 150,198 when Season 2 started, and is currently number 6 in Steam's top 10 most-played games, right between Bongo Cat and Baldur's Gate 3.

Tombs of the Erased is a significant update for Last Epoch, representing "over 100 pages internally of patch notes". The sentinel class has been completely reworked and the rogue marksman given a new skill, six new endgame crafting methods added, and the titular Tombs of the Erased are new side zones that apparently form "the foundation for interacting with our new endgame systems".

It's a hefty addition and revision, and players are already celebrating its success by meming on Path of Exile 2. Still, I can't help but think it's a bit of a devil's bargain to trade one constantly updating live-service action RPG for another—especially when Grim Dawn is right there.

Diablo 4 is teaming up with the legendary anime Berserk for a crossover event.

We don't know a whole lot of details at this point about what specifically is featured in the Diablo 4 x Berserk crossover, but Blizzard released a cinematic teaser trailer on its official Twitter account, and the collaboration looks vaguely promising so far.

In the 30-second anime-styled teaser, we see a Diablo Barbarian holding his own against a horde of demons, chopping away at the little buggers with his giant two-handed sword. He lets out an epic roar at the end before we see the official Diablo x Berserk logo. Hype.

Taking a closer look at the fine print in the trailer, it seems the Berserk collab will include "optional in-game purchases" including "random items," which sounds a whole lot like loot boxes.

But, before you break your keyboard, the fine print also mentions Diablo Immortal as well as iOS and Google Play, which strongly implies the mobile game is also crossing over with Berserk. And if that's the case, it's possible that loot boxes are only coming to Diablo Immortal and that Diablo 4's themed content will be limited to regular, transparent microtransactions.

It's also unclear when exactly the crossover event is taking place, but with season 8 on the way sometime after season 7 ends on April 29, there's a good chance it'll be part of that.

Blizzard recently detailed the full Diablo 4 roadmap for 2025 with teasers for seasons 9 and 10, and it reconfirmed that a new expansion is still coming in 2026. It also teased multiple "new IP collabs," so expect more to come after Berserk.

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