Crimson Desert launches to 239,000 players on Steam but ‘Mixed’ reviews, and it’s mostly because of how dense and cryptic the whole thing is

Crimson Desert has finally arrived and, upon contact with the gaming public writ large, appears to be a mixed bag—we gave it an 80 in our Crimson Desert review, with our own Mollie Taylor dubbing it both “a game for the sickos” and “full of archaic design choices that only make sense when you remember…

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Bungie admits Marathon’s weekend-heavy endgame means ‘there are likely some who cannot participate’

Yesterday, Bungie revealed that both of Marathon’s endgame activities, Ranked mode and the raid-like Cryo Archive, would be limited to the weekend. More specifically, Cryo Archive runs from Friday to Monday, while Ranked runs from Saturday to Tuesday each week. This tight schedule, plus overlap between the two modes, has already proven to be divisive….

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“This Is A Full Circle Moment For Me” – Retro Gamer Veteran Returns To The Mag Full Time, More Than 20 Years After Launching It

Martyn Carroll steps into the role of Features Editor, replacing the late Nick Thorpe. Back when Retro Gamer magazine launched in 2004, its editor was Martyn Carroll – and he would keep that role until 2005, when publisher Live Publishing collapsed and the mag was relaunched by Imagine Publishing with Darran Jones at the helm….

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned playing Crimson Desert for 75 hours, it’s that you should absolutely treat this game as a slow burn

Reviewing games can be kinda weird. When I’m playing stuff for personal reasons, there’s no deadline. No definitive date that I have to roll credits or reach 100% completion by. It’s just me and the journey. However long that takes. But I am also employed by one such website called PC Gamer, and sometimes I…

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