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Black Desert releases the Sage class on PC, introduces Life Skill Mastery and Caphras Stones to console
PC players of Black Desert can now rock enemy faces with the power of cubes. Today's update has introduced the Sage class to the...
Global Chat: RIFT’s melancholy birthday
Any MMO's 10th anniversary is a significant milestone and a reason for celebration, but for RIFT's birthday, this year is more like a funeral...
Black Desert just revealed the new Sage class on its afternoon stream
On its splashy reveal stream this afternoon, Pearl Abyss took the wraps off the latest playable class in Black Desert: The Sage. "Armed with the...
Desert Oasis: A brief history of Kakao Games, Black Desert’s former PC publisher
It's been a busy couple of months for Pearl Abyss and Kakao games. While Black Desert players knew about Pearl Abyss taking up self publishing...
Kakao Games’ upcoming survival sandbox Dysterra begins alpha March 18
Eager for another survival game in your library? Kakao Games is publishing the upcoming title Dysterra, an Unreal Engine 4-powered survival game in which players...
Black Desert players vote on next GM events as latest PC update brings new quests and plump pufferfish
What sort of GM-led events will PC players of Black Desert be seeing next? Well, if the results of a player poll are any...
Massively Overthinking: ‘Dead games’ in the MMO space
I had a laugh a while back when I spied this tweet in my feeds from a Bungie CM who was suggesting people mute...
The Stream Team: Black Desert’s 5th birthday bash
Today Black Desert Online turns five, but this time the party's at Pearl Abyss! Massively OP's MJ is ready to celebrate this milestone while...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 311: The day the MMOs died
Justin and Bree discuss Anthem Next's demise, Defiance and Gamigo's MMO purge, DDO's big news, Black Desert's free-play, Riot's MMO, and mobile Warcraft, with adventures in LOTRO, City of Heroes, WoW Classic, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus mailbag topics on post subs, Valheim, and MMOs as they used to be.
Black Desert Mobile announces the arrival of the Shai and a new PvP mode in March
The little character with a big boomerang is headed to Black Desert Mobile. Yes, the Shai class has been officially confirmed for the mobile...
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...
Black Desert has officially transitioned back to Pearl Abyss – and now it’s free-to-grab for two weeks
Black Desert was supposed to be back up last night, but if you stayed up for the Pearl Abyss relaunch, you know that it...
Kakao Games bids a fond farewell to fans as Black Desert publishing officially changes hands to Pearl Abyss
Today is the official end of the Kakao Games era of Black Desert. We all knew this was coming, of course: The move was...
Pearl Abyss promises less lag, support systems for vets, and a revamped Loyalties Shop in Black Desert
Pearl Abyss would like players of Black Desert to know that they want to support you. More specifically, the company is going to better...
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...
Kakao Games hosted its last GM-led live event for Black Desert on PC this past weekend
With Black Desert changing hands from Kakao Games over to Pearl Abyss, yesterday signaled the possible end of an era as GMs and CMs...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG offers the best tutorial?
MMORPG developer Raph Koster recently put this neat article by experimental game developer Nicky Case on my radar. Case notes that common wisdom is...
Black Desert is deleting accounts not transferred to Pearl Abyss by May 31
If you haven't transferred your Black Desert account from Kakao to Pearl Abyss - perhaps because of the chaos last week - then you...
Why I Play: Final Fantasy XIV’s memorable Shadowbringer relic weapon grind
I have a love-hate relationship with Final Fantasy XIV. I actively fought against giving the game MMO of the year for 2020, and I hold the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 309: You can take my loot over my dead body
Justin and Bree discuss Valheim, Elite Dangerous' slave cult, BlizzConline, Hearthstone, WoW's valor, Neverwinter Nights Arelith, Phantasy Star Online 2, Black Desert, and Shadowbane, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, SWG Legends, and Farm Together, with mailbag topics on full-loot open world PvP and brute-forcing unpopular gameplay design.
