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Crimson Desert‘s treasure maps are some of the most devious in any game I’ve played. Usually, the location you’re looking for isn’t too far from where you found the clue, but that’s not the case here. Hidden Treasure Map Piece 7, which you can pick up from the model castle on the east side of…
You’d think cleaning a chimney in the early Actions Speak Louder than Words quest would be an easy task for the absolute hunk that is Cliff, Crimson Desert‘s (first) protagonist. The thing is, controlling Cliff feels a lot like playing Octodad at times: he’s a heavy lad with lots of momentum, and there’s a hell…
Kliff starts his (second) life in Crimson Desert without much money. You’ll have no coin to your name, but plenty of things you’ll want to buy, from inventory expansions to weapons, armour, and food. It’s also not easy to make money at first. That is, if you don’t make use of Copper Pouches. You’ll get…
Caves of Qud is famously complex, simulating a surreal science-future where your player character can sprout new limbs at a moment’s notice, apes and crabs have shifting reputational dynamics with one another, and a concrete wall can gain full personhood through items that grants sentience. But in an interview with PC Gamer, Qud co-creator Brian…
After weeks of teasers, Marathon’s fourth map is right around the corner. No, like, for real this time: the Cryo Archive map option has appeared in Marathon with a countdown ending tomorrow, March 20. That’s the same time that its complicated ranked mode arrives. To commemorate the dogged community solving the Cryo Archive ARG, Bungie…
The last time I tried to solve a secret puzzle in World of Warcraft, it took me several hours and a few guide videos to figure it out. Things have escalated quite a bit since then because apparently Blizzard is making puzzles that span multiple expansions now. About a year ago, players figured out how…
Capcom CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto says PC will soon surpass consoles as “the world’s leading gaming platform”, and that it is already driving most of the publisher’s own game sales. The company’s latest annual report features some truly world-class management speak about things like Capcom’s “value creation strategy”, more charts than you can shake a stick…
Just four months after the last time it laid off a bunch of people, which occurred just three months after the time before that, which was just five months after the time before that, Crystal Dynamics has laid off 20 more people, “split between some development personnel and some central operations roles.” “As our current…
Fan casting is fun. For instance, who do you think would make a good Solid Snake in a Metal Gear Solid live-action film? Well, if you ask Reacher’s Alan Ritchson, his answer might be: Reacher’s Alan Ritchson. The extra-large action star sure seems to think he’d be a good fit for the role, as he…
2026 games: All the upcoming gamesBest PC games: Our all-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest RPGs: Grand adventuresBest co-op games: Better together Just four months after it was announced, Vampire Crawlers, the Vampire Survivors-spinoff card game described by PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon as “Wolverine for your social calendar,” has a release…