Grinding Gears will consider extending early access if endgame feedback requires it Image credit: Grinding Gears Games Action RPG Path of Exile 2 will very likely hit 1.0 by end of 2026, developers Grinding Gear Games have declared, following one last, endgame-focused early access update that introduces "over 50 hours" of new classes, areas and systems. The definition of "1.0" is rather slippery here, mind, and the developers are already prophesying a few things that might oblige a delay. The devs have said that a few of the game's planned character classes (there are eight at the moment, with 12 envisaged) might now arrive after the 1.0 launch, in order to free up resources to work on the game's fifth and sixth acts. Grinding Gear might also delay the 1.0 release further based on feedback to their revised endgame.…