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

Massively Overthinking: The impact of jump start servers in MMOs

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With Chris' Choose My Adventure run on Lost Ark - specifically, on its jump-start servers - coming to a close, I thought it would...

Black Desert PC makes PvE-focused class tweaks, applies conquest war QoL, and fights sweets-stealing bears

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It's quite a week in the PC version of Black Desert, as the game's latest update has made another wide assortment of changes to...

The Land of the Morning Light expansion arrives to Black Desert Mobile today

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Let the sunshine in. Or perhaps it's better to say let the land of sunshine that's still full of mythical monsters and other dark...

Black Desert Mobile hypes Land of the Morning Light launch with previews of bosses, zones, and its next class

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Black Desert Mobile players likely already know that the Land of the Morning Light is coming to the MMO tomorrow, September 26th, but that...

Black Desert shares details of its upcoming War of the Roses PvP mode in new video

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War is coming to Black Desert, or perhaps more accurately, more war is coming to the MMORPG in the form of the 300v300 War...

Massively Overthinking: Massively Overwhelming content in MMORPGs

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This past weekend, I picked up my first premium house in Lord of the Rings Online after much hemming and hawing. I didn't expect...

Black Desert makes season servers permanent, launches Land of the Morning Light on mobile next week

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It's Wednesday, so you know what that means: a deluge of news from Pearl Abyss' Black Desert. First, the mobile version of the game announced...

Black Desert PC’s season server will become a permanent fixture on September 20

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If you're the sort of person who always misses the boat when the PC version of Black Desert opens a seasonal server (i.e., you're...
It's a real laugh.

Betawatch: Kingdoms of Elyria is no longer launching this year, quelle surprise

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In what will surely shock anyone with the memory of a mayfly that has suffered severe head trauma and has gotten blackout drunk, Kingdoms...

Black Desert PC ends one-sided guild wardecs, tinkers with Great Ocean content

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Black Desert PC's latest update clocks in at over 1GB, so you know it's worth your while - especially if you're a guild PvPer....

Black Desert PC raises item costs to counter inflation, dates guild war adjustments, and adds spooky ships

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A whole lot of stuff is once again happening in the PC version of Black Desert, and I'm not feeling clever enough to try...
boat stuff

PSA: PlayStation Plus subscribers can nab a free copy of Black Desert’s traveler edition starting today

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Looking for a new MMORPG to play on your PlayStation console? Are you a subscriber to the PlayStation Plus service? Then you're being directly...

Black Desert PC changes Sea Palace activities, adjusts classes, and bids summer farewell with new events

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While we're only entering the month of September and the weather mostly disagrees with the notion on our portion of the globe, the summer...

Black Desert Mobile gets Land of the Morning Light in September, opens season characters today

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The Heidel Ball presentation for Black Desert Mobile had some big reveals for fans of the mobile MMO over the weekend, as Tuesday, September...
It's in the right spirit.

The Daily Grind: Is it ever too late to save a gankbox MMO?

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Back in July, Pearl Abyss raised eyebrows by announcing plans to curb Black Desert guilds abusing wardecs to murder rival players with impunity. "It...

Black Desert opens a new hunting ground on PC, begins summer graduation on console, adds a new Great Desert area on mobile

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As if this week weren't already packed with MMORPG things, allow Black Desert to throw on a whole bunch more, with every edition of...

Black Desert Console delays Maegu awakening and more to focus on game optimization

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If you're a player of Black Desert Console hoping to park your character's keister on a mythical horse sometime soon, we've got some unfortunate...

Black Desert tweaks Marni’s Realm on PC, plans early end to an event on console, opens new area on mobile

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We're back with yet another bundle of Black Desert for everybody because all three versions of the sandbox MMORPG have a little something different...

Pearl Abyss’ Crimson Desert gears up for a fresh unveiling at Gamescom 2023

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When covering Pearl Abyss's recent investor call, we expressed worry about the hedging the studio engaged in with analysts when it came to the...
Ominous!

Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs whose worlds were built from scratch

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Maybe I'm the only one to have stopped to think about it, but a great deal of the MMOs that we enjoy are based...

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