March 20, 2026

One of the more common complaints you’re likely to hear about Crimson Desert are to do with its controls, which some folks just don’t care for. Folks like, for instance, PC Gamer’s Rory Norris, who called the game’s control scheme “bafflingly convoluted.” Or Morgan Park, who said the game’s “true boss battle is wrangling its…

Kirsten Dunst has been signed up for the Minecraft Movie sequel, which currently doesn’t have a title, as the player avatar Alex. Alex is one of the default avatars in the game, is female, and has red hair: so Mary Jane feels like a pretty good fit. Dunst is of course known for many more…

The ways in which AI has made our lives worse in the last few years feels, on some level, personal. The RAMpocalypse and Nvidia’s pivot to AI datacenters have made PC gaming a dramatically less affordable hobby. Google is rewriting journalists’ headlines to make them worse while also scraping our work into “AI overviews” that…

Silksong contains remnants of all sorts of cut content, unfinished fragments of a game that never was. One of the things left out was an alternate version of the Last Judge fight that would’ve appeared in the game’s secret third act. YouTube user Kilroy Was Here tracked down the snippets of leftover code for the…

Yesterday, Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit pushed its “first BIG post-launch patch” to the game’s opt-in beta branch, giving players a chance to test the update’s changes ahead of their eventual implementation on the main branch. The beta patch brought “a huge balance pass,” retuning enemies, artifacts, and both the costs and effects…

We warned you last week that the window was closing on OpenTTD, the open source remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe that was, until quite recently—we warned you, bro—available for free on Steam and GOG. The reason, the OpenTTD team explained, was the imminent return of the real Transport Tycoon Deluxe, the 1995 business sim developed…

The twisting tale of Krafton, Unknown Worlds, and Subnautica 2 has taken a hard left turn as Game File reports that newly restored Unknown Worlds CEO Ted Gill has “serious concerns” about Subnautica’s early access release in May. All of this will make more sense if you know what’s happened previously, so let’s cover that…

A major new survey by GamesIndustry.biz has found, among many other things, that almost nine out of ten workers in the games industry (88.4%) believe Valve should force developers to declare any generative AI usage. This comes shortly after Valve updated Steam’s AI disclosure policy in January to specify a focus on AI-generated content that…

Crimson Desert is a monster of a game. A labyrinth of cool ideas communicated in frustratingly obtuse ways. It can be an absolute whale of a time, a game hiding tons of neat little mysteries and moments of wonderful discovery. It can also be a complete pain in the ass to play. I yap forever…