With Crimson Desert's release finally arriving last night, a massive wave of players have thrown themselves at the open world RPG. However, while there's certainly many out there having a good time, others are running into a major problem with Pearl Abyss' latest release: the controls.
Double Fine - the studio behind the likes of Psychonauts and last year's wonderfully surreal lighthouse adventure Keeper - has announced a release date for its next quirky offering, known as Kiln.
After a lengthy saga of solving puzzles and wiping out robots, Marathon's fourth map will be added to the game in a matter of hours. You'll want to jump in quickly though; it's only available to play during the weekend.
Mega Crit has detailed the first major balance patch coming to Slay the Spire 2. This is being added to the game's beta branch on Steam now, so it'll have some testing before it rolls out for everyone.
CD Projekt Red has suggested that if it did have something to release this year, like oh I don't know, a secret expansion for The Witcher 3, it probably wouldn't favour a surprise release or 'shadow drop'.
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie discovers he's not as good at Slay the Spire 2 as he would like to be; Connor continues to fall to the Dark Side and embrace his inner troll; and Marie realises that older games really were more challenging.
Happy birthday Game Boy Advance! It's been 25 years since Nintendo's handheld line-up bound into the world of proper 16-bit technicolour. Two and a half decades later, with a whopping 81.5m units sold, the diminutive machine is the stuff of legend. Its library is vast, home to many of video gaming's most iconic characters, and it also managed to birth a whole bunch of series that would go on to become just as beloved themselves.
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Pearl Abyss' big, single player RPG spin-off Crimson Desert released last night, and has had a somewhat wobbly debut after weeks of anticipation. 
Crimson Desert's launch day woes continue as it faces a trio of technical challenges with its release. These, spread across different platforms and storefronts, are resulting in frustrating delays for some players and outright unplayability for others.
After years of exploratory development, CD Projekt Red has "established the foundations" of a brand new gaming franchise codenamed Hadar, the company has announced.
The upcoming Minecraft Movie sequel has added another A-lister to its cast.
Crimson Desert - the ambitious single player RPG spin-off from Pearl Abyss - has sold through 2m copies following its release last night.
Netflix's live-action Assassin's Creed series will take place over 1,400 years before the events of Assassin's Creed 2 - the first (or chronologically, now technically second) time the series visited Italy.
Microsoft has lost another two long-serving members of its senior team: corporate VP of partnerships, business development, and marketing, Lori Wright, and general manager of gaming AI at Xbox, Haiyan Zhang. Both announced their departures on LinkedIn.
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