Pearl Abyss will present the development process of its new title "Crimson Desert" at Japan's largest game developer conference.
The company said Monday that the "Crimson Desert" development team has been invited as a speaker at CEDEC 2026. CEDEC, Japan's largest game developer conference, will be held from July 22 to 24 at the Pacifico Yokohama North convention center in Yokohama, Japan.
Doo Seung-bin and Kim Hyun-gyeom, heads of Pearl Abyss's new game design division, will take the stage as CEDEC speakers to deliver a lecture on the theme "Crimson Desert: Building a Large-Scale Open World Development Process." They will introduce the challenges faced in building the large-scale open world of "Crimson Desert" and the development process established to address them. They also plan to share practical know-how accumulated during the operation of large projects, including content production efficiency, iterative development, and the establishment of collaboration systems.
"Crimson Desert" recorded 2 million copies sold within a day of its release in March this year and 5 million copies in less than a month. On June 11, it achieved 6 million copies sold, 83 days after its release.
