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Crimson Desert Dev Confirms Boss Rematches, Hard Difficulty, Enemy Territory Recapture, and a Whole Lot More Is Coming Soon

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Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has outlined a number of significant changes coming to the game in the coming months, each addressing various community complaints that were highlighted recently. There are some real crowd-pleasers in Pearl Abyss’ blog post , including boss rematches, enemy territory recapture, and difficulty settings. But beyond that, Pearl Abyss also confirmed upgrades to the two secondary characters, Damiane and Oongka, to bring them more in line with main playable character Kliff, new pets and mounts, new outfits, and significant changes to storage. Meanwhile, user interface and control improvements are on the way, as well as improvements to distant scenery quality. Perhaps the most important change is you’ll be able to hide items on Kliff’s back (finally!). There’s a lot to unpack here (all the details are below), but let’s start with ‘re-blockading:’ “Peace is fleeting, and darkness does not retreat so easily. Enemy remnants are waiting for their chanc...
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World of Warcraft Fans Think Blizzard Is About to Try and Revisit Its Least Popular Expansion

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World of Warcraft: Midnight is a very purple expansion, thanks to its primary antagonist being the Void. There's a big purple beam shooting from the sky in the distance all the time. Most of the enemies are purple. Two out of three of the major raids and several dungeons and delves are purple. And the main villain, Xal'atath, is very purple. Given all the purple going around, it's not too much of a shock that Blizzard finally brought back one of its simultaneously best-loved and most-hated purple characters for a plot twist at the end of the most recent raid. What is shocking, though, is the news that character delivered: a hint that we might be careening toward a revisit to one of World of Warcraft's most maligned (and only occasionally purple) expansions: Shadowlands. Warning: Spoilers follow for World of Warcraft: Midnight's story so far, up to and including the cinematic that plays after The March on Quel'Danas. Read on at your own risk. WoW: Midnight ...
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The First Berserker: Khazan Development Team 'Reassigned' Amid Reports of Sales Falling 'Short of Market Expectations'

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A year on from the release of The First Berserker: Khazan , the action RPG set in the Dungeon Fighter Online universe, Nexon has reportedly reassigned a large portion of its production staff due to alleged poor performance. That's according to Yonhap News , which reports that a Nexon official has revealed that despite hitting a Steam concurrent peak of just shy of 33,000 players at launch, sales "declined and fell short of market expectations." This, coupled with licensing delays in getting the game out in China, has resulted in around 100 members of Khazan's team being told yesterday, April 8, that they have now been moved to the "R Team," a reassignment division at Neople (thanks, GamesRadar ). It's true that player numbers have fallen — SteamDB suggests the highest concurrent peak of the last 24 hours is just 1013 players — but it sits on a 'Very Positive' Steam score, with 85% of all Steam reviewers leaving a positive review. It also sec...
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Pokémon Pokopia Update Released, Includes Fix for Missing Pokémon

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Pokémon Pokopia has a new update available on Switch 2, with a fix for your missing creatures and habitats. Pokopia launched for Switch 2 back in March to huge success, with more than 2.2 million copies sold and a warm reception from both critics and fans alike for its cosy sandbox life sim vibes. Since launch, however, fans have noted that filling up your islands with too many creatures can sometimes cause habitats to no longer be found. You can search for them via the Pokédex — though this too has not always worked. Now, happily, the issue appears to be fixed. Alongside a list of other bug fixes, the above issue is included in Pokémon Pokopia's Version 1.0.3 update, which is available to download now for all Switch 2 owners. There's also a partial fix for a problem where your controller was left vibrating "continuously" — something that has apparently now been made to "less likely occur." Check out the full patch notes below: Pokémon Pokopia: Ver...
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Pokémon Champions Developer 'Sincerely Apologizes' For Launch Issues, Details List of Bugs to be Fixed

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Following a rocky launch, the maker of Pokémon Champions has apologized for the game's various technical issues and released a list of bugs it's currently planning to fix. Champions, billed as the Pokémon franchise's new competitive battle platform, launched this week for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, but has received a mixed reaction from fans . There have been complaints of technical issues — some of which are now in the process of being fixed — but also wider criticism of the game's lack of features, limited graphical polish and reduced Pokémon roster. And while it may now be reassuring to see the game's developer already responding to early issues, the list of problems officially listed to be fixed below is by no means exhaustive. Indeed, there's no sign yet of a solution for the eye-opening bug that leaves docked Switch 2 players at a lower resolution than intended — a situation that requires you undock and re-dock the console to fix, every time you...
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Pokémon Champions Launch Woes Continue as Switch 2 Players Discover They Must Manually Dock and Undock Consoles for Best Graphics

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Pokémon Champions has shipped with a bug that blocks higher 4K visuals when playing on a docked Switch 2 — unless you manually undock and then re-dock your console. The graphical issue, discovered by players following the game's launch yesterday, adds to the growing list of grumbles around the free-to-play battle game — such as missing features and modes, sluggish 30fps gameplay, and a small roster of supported creatures. Now, players say that the Switch 2's version is stuck at 1080p when playing docked — until you pick up your console, take it out of the dock, then put it back in. After doing this, the game will actually register it is connected to a docked Switch 2 console and shift to a higher 4K framerate (the game will still be stuck at 30fps, though). A widely-shared post on social media by Pokémon fan account CentroLeaks suggested the game's docked Switch 2 resolution was "halved" unless players perform the redocking trick to fix the issue. The tri...
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How James Bond Could Have Prevented Call of Duty From Ever Existing

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In a new interview, development veteran and Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey (Dead Space, Call of Duty: WWII) has detailed how a decision on a development partner to handle the PC port of 2002’s 007 Nightfire could have had huge ramifications on the actual existence of the Call of Duty franchise as we know it today. Condrey discussed the matter with writer Cade Onder during the production of a documentary the latter has produced on the making of 2011’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Back around the early 2000s, Condrey spent eight years working at EA on a number of James Bond games – as a producer on The World Is Not Enough, Agent Under Fire, and Nightfire, and later in a development director role on Everything or Nothing and From Russia With Love. “GoldenEye sits on this pedestal, as you know, right?” Condrey began. “Arguably one of the greatest, most transcendent shooters on console. And so we were working on the sequel to that, The World Is Not Enough, and from th...
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