Crimson Desert's combat system combines fighting game influences with swords, magic, and battle robots. How does that strange ...

Action RPGs As The Outer Worlds 2 embraces "crunchy" role-playing, its directors say people are "more open" to deeper RPGs after Baldur's Gate 3: "It's good to bring that stuff to the forefront again" ...

Earlier this year at GDC in San Francisco, Pearl Abyss invited me to take a look under the hood at its new in-house engine, BlackSpace. What I saw was pretty mind-blowing. The studio has developed ...

After playing the game and sitting on my thoughts about it for a bit, I am really struck by how confused Crimson Desert feels. The camera hangs over your shoulder at a distance like an open-world ...

Crimson Desert has been given a March 2026 launch date, as the game will also have several different editions for you to ...

Pearl Abyss announced today that Gamescom 2025 attendees will have a chance to play a public demo of Crimson Desert during the event. The team confirmed they will be at the event from August 20-24, ...

Our IGN First for October is Pearl Abyss’ Crimson Desert – the open-world action-adventure set in the fantasy continent of ...

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With The Witcher 4 not set to arrive until at least 2027, I've been looking forward to Crimson Desert. The new open-world game from developer Pearl Abyss has impressed us in multiple early playtests, ...

Games go to great lengths to conceal the duct tape, bubblegum, and live crabs holding them together. I know the crabs are in there; you can't hide them from me. So it's always a treat to look behind ...