The Week In Games: Finally Going Hands-On With ‘Staggering’ Open-World Showpiece Crimson Desert
Kotaku | 17.03.2026 00:30Crimson Desert has had one of the more unusual marketing rollouts in recent years. It was announced back in 2019 and no one really paid attention to it until it made a splash at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023 when the open-world game showed off horse drifting. Ever since, there’s been hype around its big ambitions and visual spectacle, and skepticism around, like, what you actually spend most of your time doing in the game and whether it’s actually any fun. This week we’ll finally get to see if it can deliver.
