GAMING NEWS ROUNDUP: CRIMSON DESERT UPDATES WEEKLY WHILE AI INVADES EVE ONLINE
Photo by garten-gg on Pixabay
FTC Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. Purchasing through these links helps support our content at no extra cost to you.
Crimson Desert Updates Like It's 2005
Pearl Abyss is making everyone else look lazy. Their single-player open world game Crimson Desert gets major updates almost weekly, sometimes overhauling entire systems. How? They're treating a single-player game like a live service but without the monetization garbage.
The take: This is what post-launch support should look like. While other studios push out battle passes and cosmetics, Pearl Abyss is actually fixing and improving their game. Revolutionary concept.
Star Fox Creator Throws Shade at His Own Game
Takaya Imamura, the guy who created Star Fox, just said he prefers how Fox looked in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie over the new Nintendo Switch 2 game reveal. That's your own character's dad basically saying "you looked better in the other guy's movie."
The take: When the creator of an iconic character publicly prefers a movie design over the official game version, that's not great PR for Nintendo. Maybe listen to the guy who invented your talking space fox.
Google's AI Wants to Learn Space Politics
Google DeepMind partnered with EVE Online to test AI models. They're essentially letting artificial intelligence loose in the most cutthroat MMO ever created. This is either brilliant research or the beginning of AI learning how to backstab humans on a galactic scale.
The take: EVE players are going to eat these AI models alive. No algorithm is ready for the level of scheming, betrayal, and spreadsheet warfare that game demands. Good luck, robots.
Linux Gets HDMI 2.1 Love
AMD finally added HDMI 2.1 support for Linux, which is huge news for anyone wanting to build a Steam Machine or run SteamOS on their TV setup. Microsoft's "RAMpocalypse" apparently bought them time against SteamOS, but AMD just closed another gap.
The take: Every barrier removed between Linux gaming and plug-and-play simplicity gets us closer to actually competing with Windows. Steam Deck proved Linux can game. Now AMD's making sure it can do 4K120 on your couch.
Reload complete. Feed your brain.