Diablo IV's Beta introduces the Tower and Leaderboards in the Seasonal Realm, offering players a challenging new endgame experience where they race through floors filled with monsters, aiming for high scores and leaderboard rankings. The mode is available from January 12, with ongoing updates and feedback-driven improvements planned for future seasons.
Diablo IV's Season 11 introduces major updates including overhauled itemization with new tempering and masterworking systems, enhanced monster combat, new system updates for defense and healing, the return of Capstone Dungeons, and the addition of The Tower and Leaderboards in beta, along with a new world boss Azmodan.
The top-ranked player in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, known as Hanser, has been banned for cheating, highlighting ongoing issues with hackers in the game. Despite the removal of over 19,000 cheaters from the leaderboards, players are frustrated with the time it took to address Hanser's cheating, which had been evident since June 2024. The Ricochet anti-cheat system's recent actions are a positive step, but more efforts are needed to curb the widespread cheating affecting both casual and competitive play.
Elon Musk recently claimed to be among the top 20 players of Diablo 4, based on a leaderboard from helltides.com, which is not officially affiliated with the game's developer, Activision Blizzard. The leaderboard is based on player-submitted runs of a specific dungeon, The Pit, and includes only 881 entries. While Musk's performance is impressive, the claim of being a top 20 player globally is questionable given the limited scope of the leaderboard. This incident highlights a trend among billionaires making unverifiable claims about their gaming skills.
The Trials are set to begin on March 5, offering an adrenaline-fueled challenge in the form of the Gauntlet, a fixed layout, non-linear dungeon that changes weekly. Players can earn Seals and climb the Leaderboards by proving their might and mastering the dungeon. The Gauntlet will feature class balance changes and updates, and players can earn various rewards based on their performance. Leaderboards will be separated by class, party size, and game mode, with the top performers immortalized in the Hall of the Ancients.
Final Fantasy 16's New Game Plus mode offers returning players a new challenge with Final Fantasy Mode, where enemies become stronger and change in type and positioning. Players can upgrade weapons up to six degrees and synthesize accessories for a new layer of customization. Arcade Mode offers a leaderboard for players to compete for the highest score. Chronolith battles, a battle mini-game, also come with a leaderboard in New Game Plus. The mode is highly replayable, with a wide array of abilities and the ability to skip the first part of the game.