black desert

Official Site: Black Desert (EN), Black Desert (KR)
Studio: Pearl Abyss/Daum Games
Launch Date: March 3, 2016
Genre: Fantasy Hybrid Sandbox
Business Model: B2P (Cash Shop) in the West (F2P elsewhere)
Platform: PC

Pearl Abyss Q3 2020: EVE Online’s revenues are up 45% YOY, Crimson Desert reveal coming in December

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It appears it's been hard for many gaming companies to top or match their revenue earlier this year when many customers were captive audiences,...
Sepia.

Black Desert Mobile announces the Grand Desert expansion and plans for a one-year anniversary

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There are a whole lot of future plans for Black Desert Mobile waiting in the wings, chief of which being some new content in...

Black Desert kicks off Thanksgiving events and announces a digital Calpheon Ball

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As you can tell from the header image, the Black Spirit -- and by extension Black Desert -- loves Thanksgiving. If you love Thanksgiving,...
Oh, right.

Wisdom of Nym: The roots of Final Fantasy XIV’s awful housing problem aren’t clear

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Let's start with a simple sentiment that I think absolutely everyone can get behind. However solid the underlying mechanics for decorating houses may be,...

The Daily Grind: Are there MMO quests you refuse to do?

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Today's Daily Grind comes to us courtesy of MOP's Carlo, who is really not about this one quest in Black Desert. "So I'm questing in...

Black Desert launches $29.99 ‘prestige’ editions for console today

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As promised, Pearl Abyss is today launching its Prestige edition for MMORPG Black Desert, making it one of the few modern MMORPGs to actually...

Kakao Games’ Q3 2020 investor report suggests late 2021 western launch for Elyon Ascent Infinite Realm

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Kakao is a hard company to cover, largely because the gaming segment we care about is only a tiny piece of the sprawling Korean...
Big price.

Black Desert on PC kicks off mount and enhancement boost events and adjusts enhanced skills

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The PC version of Black Desert is once more busy with events and adjustments in its latest update, which should be online by the...

Desert Oasis: Is Black Desert’s lore actually a time-travel narrative?

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In the last edition of Desert Oasis, I wrote about an absolutely dismal week in Black Desert that ultimately ended with my taking a...
Time is a flat circle.

Vague Patch Notes: The wax and wane of MMOs and genres

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I started writing for Massively-that-was in October of 2009. That was 11 years ago. Oh... oh my word, no, that was so long ago....

The Stream Team: Black Desert brings Halloween to Florin

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Black Desert Online's Halloween quests in Florin have started today, and Massively OP's MJ is eager to participate. It appears a curse has turned...

Black Desert Mobile kicks off Halloween, Black Desert PC adds more Halloween, naval fame, and a new horse

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It's double the seasonal fun in both Black Desert and Black Desert Mobile as the Halloween season comes to the mobile edition and the...
This round babby likes you

A Black Desert node war bug dumped quadrillions of silver into the North American servers

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Protip: If your Black Desert guild mysteriously manages to pull quadrillions of silver in tax from the guild incentive system, maybe just log out...

Black Desert begins Halloween on PC and Guardian pre-creation on console

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The middle of the week once more is offering up another gaggle of Black Desert updates, this time for both the PC version of...
So prestigious.

Black Desert releases its ‘Prestige Edition’ on November 6

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Ladies, gentlemen, and those who fall into neither category, we implore you to look to your physical video game collection. Does it mark you...

Black Desert Mobile adds the Tamer class, Black Desert PC kicks off Halloween

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The month of October brings with it another gaggle of treats for players of Black Desert and Black Desert Mobile, with both games introducing...
Oh no.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 292: Burning down the Amazon gameforest

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Justin and Bree discuss Crucible, Star Trek Online, Black Desert, FFXIV, Star Citizen, WoW, MMO Halloween, and new games from CCP and Zenimax, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, SWG Legends, and Torchlight III, plus an audio mailbag topic on ragequitting.
Ta-da!

Black Desert confirms that it will be compatible with the PlayStation 5

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Let's face it, no one likes having to deal with the fact that the communities for every version of Black Desert are locked to...

O’dyllita is live for Black Desert PC as console launches its first Succession classes

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The O'dyllita region is finally open for PC players of Black Desert today! Readers will recall that the high-level area was postponed back in...

The MOP Up: FFXIV blasts out its first remix album

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Final Fantasy XIV's soundtrack is downright legendary -- and now it's gotten even better, thanks to the game's first "remix" album that was just...

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