Crimson Desert (PS5) News Articles
YesterdayTue, 2nd Jun 2026
News Crimson Desert DLC in Development, Second Content Roadmap Revealed
New additions between July and September
Pearl Abyss has today shared another roadmap detailing the free content updates it has planned for Crimson Desert in the coming months. Having delivered on everything it promised to now, a second timeline reveals what it's got in store from now until September. In addition to the free updates, an official...
Friday29th May 2026
News Crimson Desert's PS5 Feature Set Has Been Expanded in Latest Patch
Full controller remapping option added
The latest weekly Crimson Desert update from Pearl Abyss has taken a slightly different direction compared to previous patches, but it's still just as important. Instead of a content addition, it's a new feature: controller button remapping. At launch, the game's control scheme was heavily criticised for being...
Friday22nd May 2026
News Nobody Is Doing PS5 Updates Like Crimson Desert Dev Pearl Abyss
Update 1.08 available to download now on PS5
Pearl Abyss has updated Crimson Desert so much since its PS5 launch earlier this year that its latest set of patch notes read like the developer is already at a point where it's just adding stuff for the fun of it. How about a pond to put your fish in? Sure, there's now one at Howling Hill and another at...
Friday15th May 2026
News Crimson Desert Gets Second PS5 Patch in a Week, Update 1.07 Out Now
More boss fight replays, new combat skills added
Pearl Abyss has been delivering its weekly Crimson Desert content updates with such consistency that they feel normal at this point, but to put out a second PS5 patch in the space of five days really is going above and beyond. Only five days after patch 1.06 was published on PS5 at the start of this...
Tuesday12th May 2026
News Crimson Desert's Massive Success Is Down to the US, Europe, and Strong Console Sales
Journey to the west
It's no secret that Crimson Desert has been a bit of a mega hit for Korean developer Pearl Abyss, selling over 5 million copies since its launch back in March of this year. But how are those sales actually broken down? That's what makes the company's latest financial report so intriguing, because there are some rather unexpected...
Monday11th May 2026
News Crimson Desert PS5 Update Streak Continues in Patch 1.06, Out Now on PS5
New mounts! Extraction feature!
While it just missed the usual weekend slot the developer has been working to, Pearl Abyss has this morning rolled out one more Crimson Desert patch on PS5. It's available to download now, updates the game to version number 1.06, and adds more mounts and a new Extraction feature. Having installed the patch, you will...
Saturday2nd May 2026
News Crimson Desert Patch 1.05 Live on PS5, Adds Boss Fight Replays and More
Try out Rematches and Re-Blockades
Another weekend, another Crimson Desert patch continues to be the mantra inside Pearl Abyss, as this morning, it's put out another update this morning to bring the PS5 game up to version number 1.05. Today's patch adds two previously confirmed features: Rematches (boss fight replays) and Re-Blockades. Now, when...
Thursday23rd Apr 2026
The game's biggest update yet
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has this morning deployed the PS5 open world title's most significant update yet and players are already loving its additions, changes, and tweaks. Update 1.04 is available to download now on PS5, and it's around 29GB in size. The headline additions are difficulty options, boss...
Saturday18th Apr 2026
News Crimson Desert's Next PS5 Patch Could Be Its Biggest Yet
Dev skips weekly update cycle for polish
Uber-industrious Korean outfit Pearl Abyss is taking a week off from its unprecedented update cycle this weekend while it takes extra time to test Crimson Desert’s next PS5 patch, which could be its biggest yet. Fans have gotten used to a game-changing update every Saturday since the open world adventure...
Wednesday15th Apr 2026
News Crimson Desert Sells 5 Million Copies in Less Than a Month
Another milestone reached for Pearl Abyss
Pearl Abyss has issued another sales update for its PS5 open world title Crimson Desert, confirming it's now sold more than five million copies. It achieved the milestone in less than a month, having launched on 19th March 2026. The game's social media profiles celebrated the new sales update with a post,...
Saturday11th Apr 2026
News Crimson Desert Update 1.03 Out Now on PS5, Get the Patch Notes Here
More new features and improvements
Crimson Desert studio Pearl Abyss has deployed yet another comprehensive PS5 patch for its recent open worlder, now bringing the title up to version number 1.03. Available to download now, the patch improves the viability of your Greymane camp, adds a weapon display option, and includes some additional graphical...
Friday10th Apr 2026
News Huge Crimson Desert Updates Teased as Dev Plans Boss Fight Replays and Difficulty Settings
New features coming between now and June
The rate and scale at which Pearl Abyss has updated Crimson Desert since launch has been impressive, and it is clearly nowhere near done yet. In a new blog post, the team shared some of the new features and content plans it's got for the game between now and the end of June. At a quick glance, here's what it...
Thursday9th Apr 2026
Kliff's edge
As you can probably imagine, there's an awful lot of potential for Crimson Desert mods on PC, and there are already several hundred up for grabs on sites like Nexus Mods. But one recent mod in particular is making headlines because plenty of players believe that it should probably have been part of the game to begin with. The mod in...
Wednesday8th Apr 2026
News 'We Had Everything from Crimson Desert': Just Cause Dev Recalls Cancelled Fantasy Game
Dragon it out
Crimson Desert has obviously made a colossal splash recently, and that's prompted Avalanche co-founder Christofer Sundberg speak up on his former studio's old project. Said project was called AionGuard, which you may have heard of back in the day. This thing was in development during the PS3 generation, and Sundberg reckons it had a...
Saturday4th Apr 2026
Private storage gets a huge buff, too
Another meaningful update for Crimson Desert has just dropped, and it features some very welcome improvements. While there's nothing here that we'd deem major, patch 1.02 — which weighs in at around 900MB on PS5 — should still make your life in Pywel more enjoyable. Highlights include a toggle for headgear...
Wednesday1st Apr 2026
News 'No Mode Is Properly Optimised on Base PS5': Crimson Desert's Console Performance a 'Mixed Bag'
Crimson Desertification
Crimson Desert is an incredibly ambitious video game, and one that deserves praise for its attempts to push open world design to impressive limits. However, as we stressed in our Crimson Desert PS5 review, the title suffers from a range of performance woes on PS5 and PS5 Pro. For many players, these problems won't threaten...
Can't argue with that
Pearl Abyss really has a huge hit on its hands. Despite somewhat mixed reviews and many aspects that have divided opinion, Crimson Desert has now sold 4 million copies. It reaches that impressive milestone in a little under two weeks following its launch on 19th March 2026. As mentioned, Crimson Desert hasn't won over...
Monday30th Mar 2026
News Crimson Desert Dev Keeps Its Promise, Replaces AI Art in Latest Patch
Art attack
Sick of seeing those seriously ugly AI-generated paintings in Crimson Desert? If so, we've got good news: they've been officially replaced. As part of the game's latest major update — which dropped over the weekend — developer Pearl Abyss has stripped the title of AI assets. While the change was mentioned in the full patch notes,...
News Crimson Desert Improves Image Quality on Base PS5 with Simple Upscaling
FSR 3 added to Performance Mode
Crimson Desert was not recommended on the PS5 at launch, largely due to its sub-par Performance Mode which launched without any upscaling at all. But in the game’s latest patch, Pearl Abyss has iterated upon the launch day product, adding in FSR 3 upscaling when the game is running in its 60fps format. While this...
Sunday29th Mar 2026
News Major Crimson Desert Patch Out Now on PS5, Makes Countless Gameplay Improvements
Full patch notes released
Crimson Desert patch 1.01.00 is available to download now on PS5, and to say it's packed with improvements would be an understatement. It's honestly hard to pick out highlights from the patch notes because there's just so much stuff. The update includes better load times, better performance, a new 4K graphical toggle on...
Tuesday24th Mar 2026
Red hot
No matter how you feel about the game, it seems Crimson Desert has been a massive hit. The single-player, open world action adventure, from MMO studio Pearl Abyss, launched last week to a fairly mixed critical reception, but in less than a week, it's achieved more than three million copies sold. That figure comes from a recent update...
Monday23rd Mar 2026
Studio said it'd respond quickly
Two major Crimson Desert patches have released in quick succession on the PS5 today, solving critical errors in the open world game. Over the weekend, Korean dev Pearl Abyss promised that it would respond to feedback regarding the release’s “uncomfortable” controls. It also
Sunday22nd Mar 2026
Full internal audit underway
Crimson Desert dev Pearl Abyss has released a groveling apology after generative AI assets were discovered in the enormous PS5 open world game. In a statement posted to X (or Twitter) moments ago, it explained that it used the technology to help “explore tone and atmosphere” but always intended to replace them with...
Saturday21st Mar 2026
News Crimson Desert Dev to Patch PS5 RPG's 'Uncomfortable' Controls
Apologises for launch day issues
There’s a lot to love about PS5 RPG Crimson Desert, but its control scheme is not one of them. It takes cues from the worst of Rockstar’s releases, and is somehow even more cumbersome and complicated than even those. In a message on X (or Twitter), dev Pearl Abyss says it’s been listening to feedback and is...
Friday20th Mar 2026
"We will listen closely to the wide range of feedback"
It only launched a few hours ago, but Crimson Desert has already sold through two million copies worldwide, making it a massive success for dev Pearl Abyss. In a message on social media, the dev acknowledged the support of its fans, and said it’s already paying close attention to feedback and...
Make up your own mind
We’ve finally been able to test Crimson Desert on base PS5. For those who haven’t been keeping tabs on this title, Pearl Abyss didn’t provide us with console review code prior to release. (We have since received codes for Sony’s system.) While we’re working on a full hands on report based on the PS5 Pro version,...
Thursday19th Mar 2026
News Crimson Desert's Mixed Reviews See Dev's Share Price Drop Almost 30%
Abyss
The first batch of reviews have been rolling in for Crimson Desert, and while they're pretty good, they aren't quite as hot as many expected. The open world action game is much anticipated, and is seemingly on track to be a big hit this year. That's likely to still come true, but it seems that there's been a very mixed reception from critics...
Wednesday18th Mar 2026
Site News Where's Our Crimson Desert PS5 Review?
Only the PC version made available
With the release of Crimson Desert now just 24 hours away, you'll soon see the Internet flooded with critic reviews. But, on this occasion, Push Square unfortunately can't join the party. All the verdicts you find online today are based on PC review code. Pearl Abyss, the game's developer and publisher, has not...
Tuesday17th Mar 2026
News Here Is Crimson Desert Gameplay on Base PS5
Courtesy of PlayStation Japan
You demanded it, and here it finally is: Crimson Desert running on a base PS5. Footage comes from PlayStation Japan in its Play! Play! Play! format, so you will have to put up with a lot of talking and on-screen graphics of Japanese text. However, there is still close to 20 minutes of base PS5 gameplay footage to view...
Monday16th Mar 2026
News Crimson Desert PS5 Trophies Leak, and They're Basically Nonsensical
35 Trophies with a Platinum to unlock
Crimson Desert is shrouded in such mystery that even its Trophy list on PS5 will draw attention. However, this particular Trophy list isn't one you can glean many details from. In fact, it's the polar opposite. A leaker with access to the PS5 version of the game has shared the Trophy list with Polish website...
