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

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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs will make to to 20 years?

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Unless it mysteriously shutters between now and Monday, Ultima Online is turning 20 next week. Our Game Archaeologist will surely object to an assertion...
I mean, there are good reasons.

Black Desert is getting a remastered orchestral soundtrack with European orchestras

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The upcoming soundtrack remaster for Black Desert is nothing but an upside for fans of the game. If you already like the music in...

Jukebox Heroes: Music from Destiny 2, LOTRO, Absolver, Black Desert, and Champions Online

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Apologies for being extensively absent from this column over the last few months! Every day the Massively OP offices are deluged with fan mail...
And we shoot the varmint.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 136: Westward ho!

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Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, Star Citizen, EVE Online, Black Desert, Phantasy Star Online 2, FFXIV, DDO, Neverwinter, Ultima Online, and of course Guild Wars 2, with mailbag entries on Star Citizen's monetization and solid free-to-play side MMOs.

The first chunk of Black Desert’s free Kamasylvia expansion launches next week

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Remember last week when Kakao hinted that Black Desert's new servers were indication that Kamasylvia was on the way "real soon"? That soon is...

Whatever happened to Black Gold, Order and Chaos Online, and Eden Eternal?

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Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, "Whatever happened to that game?" With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...

Massively Overthinking: What keeps you from playing mobile MMOs?

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Earlier this week, we wrote about Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss' IPO and its grand plans for the future - among them, four additional...

Pearl Abyss is building four more MMOs as Black Desert swells to 7.65M registered users

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We've been tracking Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss' path to IPO since last spring, when multiple Korean outlets began reporting that the company sought...
El Black.

Black Desert is getting a Spanish localization

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Remember when Black Desert wasn't localized in English and every attempt to play it involved jumping through a lot of hoops in a language...

Massively Overthinking: Female characters and gender-locked classes in MMOs

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One of the reasons I gravitated to and stick by the MMORPG genre in spite of its many ups and downs (oh, so many...
I mean, there are good reasons.

Black Desert launches Savage Rift patch, back-to-school cash-shop promo

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Savage Rift is live in Black Desert today as promised; it's the co-op tower defense minigame in which teams of players will protect the...

Black Desert launches a tower defense mode dubbed Sealed Tower tomorrow

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Tomorrow's Black Desert update will make the new biweekly cadence all worthwhile. Its headline feature? Savage Rift, a de facto co-op tower defense minigame...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tops Steam concurrency, drawing from CS:GO’s playerbase

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Remember a few weeks back when PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds took League of Legends to town on Twitch, beating Riot's giant for eyeball share on the...

Black Desert censures Pearl Abyss Taiwan employees found cheating

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Let this Black Desert story be a lesson. Actually, no, let it be two lessons: Don't cheat, and definitely don't cheat if your job...

Black Desert shows off 4K console version at Gamescom

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It might have gotten buried in this massive list, but Black Desert is one of the MMOs that's slated to receive enhanced treatment by...

Xbox One X announces ‘select enhanced titles’ that include many online games

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At its pre-Gamescom press conference this Sunday, Microsoft revealed more about its upcoming Xbox One X and its glorious 4K gaming capabilities. As part...

The MOP Up: Black Desert shows pet love (August 20, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Black Desert parent corporation is merging all its game businesses

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MMORPG players know Kakao chiefly as the publishing and localization giant behind Pearl Abyss-developed Black Desert, but over in its native South Korea, the...
Well, it's something.

Black Desert Korea introduces a skill fusion system

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Have more than enough skills on your hotbar these days? Might as well mash them together and see what happens! Yes, it's like your...

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