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How do you craft the Cloudcart? Getting around in Crimson Desert is half of the fun, really. The environments are beautiful, and it’s a genuine pleasure to take in the sights as you attempt to accomplish whatever mission you’re on at the time. There does come a point when traipsing around on the ground becomes tiresome – however, there is another way. Dragons are all well and good, but we all know technology is where it’s at, and there isn’t much more advanced than a hot air balloon in Crimson Desert. You, too, can have your very own hot air…

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A citizen of the town is having a bad day in Crimson Desert. First, a rock from the sky fell and crushed his home. Second, bandits showed up and stole his cows. To make matters worse, you’re here to help, and you have no idea what to do.Once you’ve spoken with the despairing man, Bremer, he’ll tell you his story and you’ll be prompted to speak with a witness. Head down the road and toss the witness a copper, and he will mount up and take you to where he saw the bandits.Follow along on horseback and kill the bandits…

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Ladies and gentlemen: the weekend. Why not celebrate the end of winter by watching a dang good movie? In order to help narrow down your choices, this list of the three best new movies on Netflix is designed to help you narrow down the latest and greatest the streamer has to offer.Netflix adds new movies every week, and for this list, I’ve picked out three top films that hit the streamer earlier in the week. We’ve got some brain-munching horror, some campy coming-of-age with a supernatural twist, and a franchise about a green ogre and his best friend who happens…

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Marathon game director Joe Ziegler has posted a defence of the decision to release the game’s new Cryo Archive map as a weekend-only event. The time restriction has understandably left the more casual Marathon players a bit miffed. It has driven our own Oisin into the arms of Peggle. But Ziegler argues that it’s important for three reasons: encouraging players to prepare adequately, avoiding the “flooding” (hey, is this another Halo reference?) of the game’s item economy with overpowered Cryo Archive rewards, and ensuring a consistent player pool for the purposes of speedy matchmaking. To this, I would add: Bungie…

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How do you unlock the Ancient Sealed Gate? The Skybridge throws interesting challenges at you and awards invaluable fast-travel points as you go – not to mention the fact that you get to skydive to your intended destination. There is one island that forces you back down to earth, however, to solve a fiendish puzzle. If you’re trying to unlock as many fast travel points as you can, there aren’t many better ways of doing it than traversing the Skybridge. These puzzles can be tough, but with a skill point on offer as well as a convenient way of getting…

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Crimson Desert is an intimidatingly large game, and if you don’t want to be dragging your poor horse everywhere, you’ll need to use fast travel.Fast travel is unlocked early in the game, but unlocking fast travel points isn’t as easy as simply turning up in a town for the first time. Instead, there are set fast travel points across the world of Pywel. You will be given a hint when one is nearby, and it’s up to you to go and unlock it. Some are easy to unlock, and others are far more difficult.In this guide, we’re breaking down how…

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The Marathon Cryo Archive release time is now, at least for the time being. The endgame activity, alongside ranked mode, only opens to players on the weekends, a move that’s garnered some criticism from those whose lives don’t fit Bungie’s schedule. Marathon game director Joe Ziegler is open to some changes, but says there are three key motivations behind keeping the mode time-gated.”We acknowledge that players will lose a lot of gear on Cryo and Ranked because it is intended to challenge you to your limits,” Ziegler says in a lengthy tweet (via Rock Paper Shotgun). “As a result of…

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Last week, the folks behind PEGI (Pan European Game Information) – the age rating system used for games in Europe outside of Germany – announced plans to update their age rating criteria with four new categories. Games which feature the likes of loot boxes, NFTs, or daily quests designed to push players into coming back because otherwise they’ll miss out will automatically be given higher ratings. The ratings board’s US equvivalent, the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board), have now revealed that they won’t be following suit at least for now, because they’re concerned parents could end up scratching their heads.

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Nvidia DLSS 5 really is as ‘simple’ as some feared, according to the company’s latest info. After being asked to confirm if the new AI image quality-enhancing technology takes into account 3D geometry and other underlying game engine data, the world’s most valuable company admitted that the only input data the new DLSS 5 receives is the final rendered frames from the game and motion vectors that inform the algorithm of the direction the player and objects in the scene are moving. The reason this matters is that a lot of the criticism of the technology so far has been…

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The Subnautica 2 legal saga has still not ended, with publisher Krafton now being accused of ignoring a judge’s order.Unknown Worlds studio CEO Ted Gill, co-founder and creative director Charlie Cleveland, and co-founder and technical director Max McGuire were fired by Krafton last year, with the publisher accusing the trio of an “absence of core leadership” and claiming it felt “a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them by our fans”.The three claimed, however, that Krafton had betrayed them by firing them right before delaying Subnautica 2, a move they allege was designed…

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