HARVEY RANDALL × CRIMSON DESERT

Every piece Harvey Randall has written about Crimson Desert.

16 articles spanning Crimson Desert's coverage, newest first.

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12 OCT
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PC Gamer·12 Oct
Pearl Abyss goes easy on us critics for our Crimson Desert reviews: 'They had to play the build that is not the exact same version of the launched game'
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27 AUG
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PC Gamer·27 Aug
Crimson Desert will be slowing down its free updates in preparation for its paid DLC, and I'm just glad Pearl Abyss is finally pacing itself
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26 AUG
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PC Gamer·26 Aug
Crimson Desert's 2.0 update's most surprising change is an effort to make Kliff a fully realised character with thoughts and opinions
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12 AUG
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PC Gamer·12 Aug
Crimson Desert has done so well it'll be getting a DLC this year, with more details coming sooner than I expected given Pearl Abyss' breakneck pace
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11 MAY
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PC Gamer·11 May
Crimson Desert's latest patch gives the people what they want, which is to tame and ride a random bear with your own two hands—or a goat, if you're freaky
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13 APR
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PC Gamer·13 Apr
If you're struggling with Crimson Desert's double jump as much as I was, it's because of this mistranslation
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PC Gamer·13 Apr
Crimson Desert update has a few surprise improvements, like finally letting you teleport on your horse and a new ability
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PC Gamer·13 Apr
Crimson Desert players have a new way to slay its powerful bosses—slowly unleashing a swarm of individually-caged bees at them
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2 APR
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PC Gamer·2 Apr
It turns out Crimson Desert has even more mechanics under the hood—like this 'fully-designed food consequence system' that modders have unlocked
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31 MAR
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PC Gamer·31 Mar
Crimson Desert voice actor says he had to keep pushing to get a cohesive story for Kliff
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23 MAR
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PC Gamer·23 Mar
The new Crimson Desert patch adds private storage at base camp and nerfs a few bosses—also, Pearl Abyss knows the control scheme isn't great
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20 MAR
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PC Gamer·20 Mar
Crimson Desert launches to 239,000 players on Steam but 'Mixed' reviews, and it's mostly because of how dense and cryptic the whole thing is
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4 MAR
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PC Gamer·4 Mar
After 6 hours, Crimson Desert is one of the most overwhelming, chaotic, madcap videogames I've ever played—and I'm hungry for more
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16 FEB
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PC Gamer·16 Feb
Crimson Desert is made by the devs of MMO Black Desert, but it won't have any non-preorder microtransactions on launch: 'This is the premium experience, that is the transaction'
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25 SEPT 2025
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PC Gamer·25 Sept 2025
Crimson Desert's release date trailer bravely makes it through 1 minute of serious fantasy exposition before showing you its cool clockwork dragon and mech, and I love it for that
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10 APR 2025
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PC Gamer·10 Apr 2025
Crimson Desert is an unrestrained feast of violence, with a toolkit of moves that's like a fusion of every action RPG protagonist of the past decade rolled into one
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