Crimson Desert will be slowing down its free updates in preparation for its paid DLC, and I’m just glad Pearl Abyss is finally pacing itself

You’ve got to give Crimson Desert kudos—it’s been getting hit with free update after free update, including, most recently, an overhaul to the game’s story. But that’ll be slowing down in coming months, as Pearl Abyss gears up to release the game’s first major paid piece of DLC content. “While there still will be updates,”…

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Total War: Warhammer 40k will let you stuff your ‘almost dead’ Space Marine characters into Dreadnoughts so they can keep fighting

The Total War: Warhammer 40k Gamescom demo is underway, with lots of players getting their hands on the upcoming grimdark strategy game for the first time. Total War’s content creators have been giving their impressions, but Creative Assembly also snuck in a new Alpha Strike livestream, and this is one of the biggest information drops…

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Blue Dragon has been stuck on the Xbox 360 for 20 years, but no longer: a fantastic unofficial PC port unlocks the FPS, goes 4K, and even adds mod support

When Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi left Square Enix in the early 2000s, he started a new studio, Mistwalker, to keep making RPGs. For the last 20 years, every single one of his games with the exception of Fantasian has been stuck on one defunct console or another, never ported or re-released. And that’s a…

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