World War II shooters have long revisited the same iconic battlefields — Normandy’s shores, Western Europe’s cities, and the deserts of North Africa. But the global conflict was far larger, and many of its most devastating chapters have rarely been explored in games. That’s where The Defiant comes in. Announced by publisher 4Divinity — a publishing label of GCL Global Holdings (NASDAQ: GCL) — and developer Hoothanes, The Defiant is a story-driven first-person shooter set in the Asian theatre of World War II, focusing on China’s War of Resistance against Japan. It’s a brutal, historically significant conflict that claimed countless…