Crimson Desert devs are addressing all your complaints (and then some) in a long list of planned updates, which includes adding difficulty options

Crimson Desert devs are addressing all your complaints (and then some) in a long list of planned updates, which includes adding difficulty options

One of Crimson Desert’s most frustrating issues is running out of enemies to kill, which isn’t an issue I thought we’d have in a massive open-world game. Pearl Abyss, I want to turn Kliff into a cannonball and body slam enemies like an anime character, and I can’t do that if there are no enemies…

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CPUID’s download page has been hacked, with its popular processor and PC info tools replaced with links to files containing malware

There are lots of great software tools out there that can tell you all kinds of things about your gaming PC, and perhaps two of the most well-known by enthusiasts are CPU-Z and HWMonitor. However, two sharp-eyed Redditors spotted that while everything seems all normal on the official download page, the links will give you…

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“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This” – This Freshly Released Punch-Out!! NES Prototype Has Historians Stumped

The pre-Tyson build has now been dumped online. A rare pre-Mike Tyson prototype of Nintendo’s 1987 NES title, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, has appeared online, giving “a basically unheard of” insight into the early development of a first-party Nintendo game, while stumping historians in the process. The NES prototype cartridge was shown off yesterday in a…

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The ill-advised business software that helped sink videogame pioneers Infocom now runs on modern PCs: ‘It’s a new age for aficionados of failed 1985 database products!’

Infocom is fondly remembered today as the studio responsible for a string of legendary text adventures including the Zork series, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging, and plenty more. Looking back, the company seems to have been confused about its own strengths, though. While it would be an exaggeration to…

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Nexon confirms reorganizaton at The First Berserker: Khazan developer but says it’s merely ‘a strategic reallocation of talent’ as development winds down

Nexon has confirmed that it has “reorganized” the teams at The First Berserker: Khazan developer Neople, but says the changes were made not because of issues with the game’s performance, but simply “to allocate resources more effectively” across ongoing projects. The reshuffling at Neople was first reported by Korean agency Yonhap (via GamesRadar), which said…

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Darkstone, a classic 1999 action RPG about eating apples and trying not to die of old age, is being remastered by its original creator

Remember Darkstone? Probably not. It’s one of many Diablo-likes of the 1990s largely forgotten today like Revenant or, er, one of the other examples I could come up with except for the fact I seem to have forgotten them as well. I remember Darkstone because, while a fairly generic fantasy hack-and-slash, it had a few…

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