crimson desert
Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss on DokeV’s ambitions and market diversification
On this week's MOP Podcast, we happened to mention that Crimson Desert is several years delayed at this point, so it's rather convenient that...
Pearl Abyss Q4 2022: Revenues decline as Black Desert and EVE hold steady and Crimson Desert malingers
Pearl Abyss posted its Q4 2022 financials this week, and unlike some of its regional counterparts whose chief interest is China or South Korea,...
Pearl Abyss Q3 2022: DokeV and Crimson Desert delays, CCP’s new blockchain game, and EVE Online’s uptick
Pearl Abyss, primarily known around these parts as the company that owns EVE Online and Black Desert, has released its third quarter earnings report...
Pearl Abyss Q1 2022: Black Desert revenues take a hit, EVE Online hangs in there
If you were curious about how Pearl Abyss is performing since its Q4 announcement - during which we learned that both of its core...
EVE Online and Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss believes it can ‘create a stable blockchain ecosystem’
Pearl Abyss' Q4 2021 financials are a rollercoaster, my friends. The company is fine, so no panic there; in fact, it's operating revenue is...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2022
OK folks, it's that time of the year again: the time when we cast our eyes ahead and try to pinpoint what's going to...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2022
If 2021 had a problem, it was that we got simply too many MMO releases between new launches, early access, and expansions. This breathtaking...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2021 predictions
Last year's MMORPG predictions didn't exactly go to plan, since in 2019, we weren't really expecting 2020 to play out the way it did....
Pearl Abyss discusses the advantages of creating its own graphics engine for DokeV and Crimson Desert
If you want something done right - or at least done to a degree of "right" that seems most appropriate for your game studio...
Pearl Abyss downgraded DokeV from an MMORPG to ‘open-world action adventure’
Back in 2019, Pearl Abyss announced a slew of new MMOs, including Crimson Desert, Plan 8, and DokeV, the last of which was being...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 333: Dragon us back to Guild Wars 2
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons, Pathfinder Online, Crimson Desert, and Week Two of the Blizzard Scandal, with adventures in LOTRO, FFXIV, Albion, Guild Wars 2, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on boycotts in the MMO space.
Betawatch: Starbase enters early access alpha
At long last, it's happened! Starbase has moved into early access, allowing everyone to... well, access the game. But early. Look, we've had kind...
Pearl Abyss has delayed Crimson Desert indefinitely
Earlier this month, when Pearl Abyss emerged from over six months of silence on Crimson Desert to post a mocap video, we speculated that...
Pearl Abyss is building an art center in order to ‘create more realistic and cinematic games’
It appears that publisher/developer Pearl Abyss is very serious about making its upcoming titles as realistic as possible. How serious, you ask? Try spending...
Crimson Desert, originally set to launch this year, posts mocap video
One of the biggest MMOs we were expecting to launch this year hasn't made many moves so far, and that would be Crimson Desert....
Pearl Abyss opens new studios in US and Europe as part of western expansion efforts
Pearl Abyss very clearly has eyes on expanding its reach further into the western market. The publisher/developer of Black Desert has opened up two...
Massively Overthinking: The 2021 MMORPG outlook is good, actually
Early this week, I saw a mainstream gaming headline in my feeds about how we should all just give up on 2021 since it's...
MMO Business Roundup: Apple’s Steam subpoena, CCP on the cheap, and Valheim’s 4M
Welcome back to yet another MMO and MMO-adjacent business news roundup - it's the season for these shenanigans, you know.
Valve and Apple: Remember earlier...
Pearl Abyss Q4 2020: An overall drop in profits and revenue but a revenue rise on PC
The quarterly earnings report from Pearl Abyss is now available to peruse for armchair fiscal analysis types to chew over, and in the fourth...
Betawatch: Fractured opens up a bonus playtest weekend
Here comes the weekend, and that means here comes Fractured. Any and all registered users can get in on the fun of a playtest...
