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Wednesday news, part two:

Bungie will increase Wellspring weapon drop rates in Destiny 2 next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/bungie-is-looking-into-the-brutal-grind-for-wellspring-drops-in-destiny-2/
Destiny 2: The Witch Queen is outstanding, possibly the best shooter campaign of the year. But it's not without its problems, one of the big ones right now being the extreme rarity of a particular type of reward drop that's required to craft new weapons.
Update: Destiny 2 game director Joe Blackburn said in a Twitter thread that the current drop rates and unlock requirements for Wellspring Throne World weapons are "going to gate off too many players from being able to earn their exotic glaives." So, changes are coming.

It looks like Assassin's Creed's Ezio is coming to Fortnite
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/it-looks-like-assassins-creeds-ezio-is-coming-to-fortnite/
Fortnite dataminter Shiina has posted a pair of images indicating that Assassin's Creed stabsmith Ezio Auditore da Firenze is coming to Fortnite.

Ubisoft provides emergency housing and funding for employees fleeing Ukraine
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ubisoft-provides-emergency-housing-and-funding-for-employees-fleeing-ukraine/
Ubisoft is based in France, but maintains a sizable presence in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, which is home to one of its largest studios. With the city under increasing threat from the Russian invasion that began last week, Ubisoft has revealed more about the steps it's taking to support and aid its employees and Ukrainians as a whole.

Back 4 Blood's first expansion is coming in April
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/back-4-bloods-first-expansion-is-coming-in-april/
Back 4 Blood, the Left 4 Dead-alike made by the team that made Left 4 Dead, is very good—our best co-op game of 2021, no less. And more is on the way: Developer Turtle Rock Studios announced today that the first expansion, Tunnels of Terror, will be out on April 12.

Ghostwire: Tokyo's free visual novel introduces KK and his supernatural detective squad
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/ghostwire-tokyos-free-visual-novel-introduces-kk-and-his-supernatural-detective-squad/
Tango Gameworks' action-horror game Ghostwire: Tokyo will be out later this month, and to get everyone appropriately fired up for the big day, the studio is releasing a prelude visual novel, free for everyone, called—wait for it—Ghostwire: Tokyo Prelude.

Dungeon Siege is back and has joined the metaverse, for some reason
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/dungeon-siege-is-back-and-has-joined-the-metaverse-for-some-reason/
If you've got a once-beloved but now dormant game series gathering dust, you might as well toss it into the metaverse and see what happens. That's what Square Enix has seemingly done with Dungeon Siege, which has been resurrected as a component of The Sandbox, a so-called metaverse which describes itself as "a leading decentralized gaming virtual world".