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The Latest Breaking News from Pearl Abyss

Crimson Desert DLC "will be substantively different" to the main game, Pearl Abyss PR lead teases

Free updates are still planned, too

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Crimson Desert leans further into its true calling as a pet sim game with new patch, while Pearl Abyss also rolls out pinball improvements and more

You can now register 100 pets

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Crimson Desert's free updates are "free marketing" and will continue "as long as there's demand for it," says Pearl Abyss lead

The fantasy sandbox will keep growing

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Crimson Desert continues its quest to include every feature ever as it adds Pinball, baby chicks that grow into mounts, and new re-blockade improvements

Pearl Abyss' updates are relentless

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Crimson Desert gets surprise second roadmap and DLC confirmation — with Pearl Abyss promising one important upgrade that I wish was more common

Crimson Desert still has legs in it as Pearl Abyss commits to a second roadmap of updates and confirms new DLC is on the way.

TechRadar

Crimson Desert reveals a new roadmap of gameplay and story improvements for the open-world hit — and a DLC is in the works

Pearl Abyss has released a new roadmap containing various gameplay and narrative improvements, along with a DLC update in the works for their hit open-world game, Crimson Desert.

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Fallout: New Vegas director says it's "fine" Crimson Desert's story is so bad that developer Pearl Abyss has to patch it, "even if it isn't ideal"

At least they're trying

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Crimson Desert DLC officially in the works, but several improvement updates get priority

One of 2026's biggest successes is continuing.

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Pearl Abyss heard you didn't like Crimson Desert's story, so it's fixing it to 'strengthen the narrative flow of Kliff's journey'

The relentless updates continue.

PC Gamer

Crimson Desert DLC officially in the works, but Pearl Abyss also has its sights on story improvements, new combat content, and more arriving in the next 4 months

The devs want the DLC to be "a meaningful addition to your journey"

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The Crimson Desert patches keep coming as the open-world game gets "approximately 30 species of small animals that can be registered as pets," controller remapping, and more

I didn't expect this game to become Nintendogs 3

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Pearl Abyss is making me forget that Crimson Desert is a single-player game, with so many great updates — and it deserves all the plaudits for it

Pearl Abyss is continuously providing more updates for Crimson Desert, long after its launch, and it's incredibly impressive for a single-player game.

TechRadar

Crimson Desert patch tackles endgame emptiness further with 5 more boss rematches, extra mounts, and new skills

Pearl Abyss's second patch in a week

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Crimson Desert star acted in The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and Elden Ring but says Pearl Abyss' "beautiful" open-world game is "unlike anything I've ever been involved in"

Kliff was inspired by Alec Newman's late family member

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Crimson Desert soars past 150,000 Steam reviews with Very Positive rating despite story criticism

Good for her

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Hot off Crimson Desert, Pearl Abyss wants to "accelerate development" on open-world Pokemon-like MMO DokeV as it aims to release a new game "every two to three years"

DokeV was originally announced in 2019

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Crimson Desert DLC teased as Pearl Abyss looks to "broaden the game to the next level" following record quarterly revenue of around $180 million

The studio "will share the details once the concrete plans are set"

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None of Crimson Desert's big updates were pre-planned because Pearl Abyss is "not baking in presumptions around what the players want"

"Everything, patch-wise, content-wise, has been iterated in real time," says PR lead Will Powers

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CCP Games is no more: EVE Online studio changes its name as it goes independent and enters an AI research partnership with Google DeepMind

An offline version of EVE Online will serve as a testbed for new AI research.

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New Crimson Desert update lets you 'rematch' defeated enemies and adds new legendary creatures

Pearl Abyss's kitchen sink RPG continues to change rapidly.

GamesRadar

Crimson Desert player finds out-of-bounds village that looks like medieval Red Dead Redemption 2, and now everyone's hoping Pearl Abyss will let us pillage it in a future update

It already has items and everything

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Despite Crimson Desert's popularity, almost 80% of Steam players haven't made it halfway through the story yet, proving how massive Pearl Abyss's open world is

That would explain why I haven't heard a thing about its story

PC Gamer

Pearl Abyss paid its employees a 5 million won bonus after Crimson Desert reached 5 million sales: 'Our journey does not end here'

Crimson Desert reached the sales milestone a couple of weeks ago.

Windows Central

Crimson Desert dev Pearl Abyss gave its employees a huge bonus for hitting 5 million copies sold across Xbox, PC, and PS5 — "I express my deep respect and gratitude"

To celebrate selling over 5 million copies, Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has reportedly paid out a $3,400 bonus to each of its employees.

TechRadar

Crimson Desert has 'opened a new chapter in K-content', according to the South Korea Prime Minister — and the game's Steam player count highlights that, beating the likes of Marvel Rivals, and keeping players interested even more than Elden Ring did

Crimson Desert isn't slowing down at all, with the South Korean Prime Minister praising Pearl Abyss, and the player count soaring above live-service games.

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