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To put it simply: Allegro Non Troppo is the raunchiest Disney satire you’ve ever seen (discounting actual, Disney-inspired pornography). It’s also an excellent animated film on its own merits, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary, film distributor GKIDS is bringing…
Huggghh-puuuhhhhh. Hughhhhh-puhhhh. If you’ve decided to try pedalling away in attempt to master Crimson Desert‘s bike-like controls, Pearl Abyss’ latest patch – which also brings the likes of camp storage quicker tree felling – is good news. The developers have…
Completing Close Threat in Crimson Desert is the final stage in the Extinguishing the Last Flames quest. During the other steps, you’ll have traveled around Hernand at the behest of Shakatu, questioning suspects and gathering potential evidence, all to prove…
A common conversation in recent years, especially among the old guard, has been how legacy video game franchises are struggling to get younger players to care in the long run. Even some of the developers behind renowned series are starting…
“We’re the two that can fix this,” Dan Ayoub, Dungeons & Dragons‘ head of franchise, said during a press conference at Gary Con 2026. Ayoub was talking about the first meeting between himself and Luke Gygax, engineered by Joe Manganiello…
With the arrival of patch 1.00.03, Crimson Desert‘s developers have begun the monumental task of improving the game’s control system, quality-of-life features, and performance. Following a day one patch, which already reduced boss fight difficulty, preponed certain quests, and added…
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has admitted that the hit open-world game contains undisclosed art created by generative AI, after fans spotted strangely warped figures in paintings within the game. The studio said Sunday that the “2D visual props” were…
Crimson Desert’s hit the public and, as I suspected, has buckled a bit under its own weight. It’s a charming but messy complex of systems in dire need of some quality-of-life brushups—and while some of Pearl Abyss’ design choices going…
Occasionally, there’s some Windows news that gives a little glimmer of hope for the operating system. A recent statement from Microsoft, however, does not mark such an occasion—not because it’s bad, but rather because, for a change, it offers far…
AI is increasingly creeping its way into gaming, and it’s been the cause of a fair few blunders at this point: Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 have been accused of using it, both Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and the…