Black Desert’s western launch arrives with new trailer

    
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I expected blacker.

Welcome to Black Desert’s official North American and European launch day!

The servers are down right now for maintenance before the big rush, but we’ve got the launch trailer and our launch-day roundup of all the big news surrounding the game from the last year right here. [Servers are up now!]

Don’t forget to read up on our beta hands-on (the combat part and the economy part), tell us which server you’re on, argue about the cash shop, and check out our brand-new Black Desert column, Desert Nomad, which just yesterday released its guide to the game. Happy launch day, everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS75XlHmA2o

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