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Pearl Abyss announces the "Beyond the Abyss: Community Challenge," which will see at least one lucky fan getting a most expenses paid trip to Pearl Abyss' headquarters in South Korea. This is a new "global video contest" that will invite players to share their most memorable moments in Pywel.

This challenge tasks players with capturing their best moments. The theme of each video is entirely up to the person submitting them....

Free content and updates and paid DLC are all in development.

Pearl Abyss released a new Dev Update today that previews the "next wave of content and feature updates" in development for Crimson Desert. The updates and content revealed in this new Dev Update include stuff that will roll out gradually from June through September of this year.

Some of the new content coming to all players soon includes new combat mechanics and a rework to their re-blockade system...

That's at least one more than 4,999,999 copies sold.

Pearl Abyss announces that their open-world action-adventure title, Crimson Desert, has sold over 5 million copies.

The studio says that this sales marker is a "significant milestone for the company." In addition to the milestone, Pearl Abyss also shared a look at some of the new updates and content that they have been working on. Some of those improvements mentioned in that roadmap actually came out right...

Some big changes are still on the way.

Pearl Abyss released a preview of some upcoming free updates that they are working on for Crimson Desert. The preview is basically a roadmap of planned changes, improvements, features, and even some free content that is expected to hit the game between April through June.

Some of these improvements are quite substantial for players and the overall gameplay experience. For starters, Pearl Abyss will implement difficulty settings: Easy,...

There's an actual stash now with this update.

Pearl Abyss, in addition to rectifying their use of generative AI assets, was also busy celebrating over the weekend. The studio says that Crimson Desert sold more than 2 million copies.

The announcement of selling more than 2 million copies was made on March 20, a mere day after the game was released. It has undoubtedly hit a much higher number by this point.

The studio also released their first major quality-of-life...

A "comprehensive audit" of assets is also underway.

Fans caught Pearl Abyss using generative AI (genAI) art assets in their newly released game, Crimson Desert. Not only were there obvious genAI created assets present in the game, but Pearl Abyss made no disclosure of using AI through the Crimson Desert Steam page. This is something that Valve allegedly requires, but are quite lax in actually enforcing. It took a bit after initial reporting was made, but Pearl Abyss did make a ...

And Valve is caught not enforcing their own policies.

Crimson Desert features generative AI (genAI) art assets in the final build of the game that released to everyone just yesterday. While I have yet to see the obvious genAI art assets myself, several examples have already been posted to social media and Reddit across a number of discussion threads.

According to some media outlets, there is "debate" about if the assets were made with generative AI or not....

Reviews have also been released.

Pearl Abyss announce that the global launch for their open-world action-adventure game, Crimson Desert, will take place at 3 PM PT later today (March 19). This simultaneous global release will be for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Mac, Epic, and ROG Xbox Ally.

Crimson desert is powered by Pearl Abyss' BlackSpace Engine. This engine allows games like Crimson Desert to deliver "seamless open world with detailed environments,...

A game that has the potential to be GOTY if they can pull it off.

Crimson Desert from Pearl Abyss is almost here. The open-world action-adventure is expected to release on March 19 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Epic, and ROG Xbox Ally. This means we get one final look at the game by way of a launch trailer. We also are going to share with you the PC system requirements for Crimson Desert, which were revealed just earlier this week.

First up, there will be...

Get a look at the faces behind the voices you will hear for several hours.

Pearl Abyss just released another behind-the-scenes video for their upcoming RPG, Crimson Desert. The latest video offers fans a look at the actors behind the voices. A good number of the actors working on Crimson Desert have been in several other high-profile titles. So chances are pretty good that you may know their voices, but you may not actually know their faces.

For instance, were you aware...

New week, new games with DLSS support.

Another week of game releases is here, which means it's another week of games that now have Nvidia DLSS 4 support. This week, the highlights include path tracing, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and DLSS Ray Reconstruction for Resident Evil Requiem. The demo for John Carpenter's Toxic Commando also includes DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution.

There are also some Nvidia technologies being implemented into Crimson Desert, ARC Raiders,...