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Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2019
Earlier this week, we granted our formal award for the biggest MMO story of the year. But biggest doesn't necessarily mean best or most...
Pearl Abyss drops new Crimson Desert screenshots and design notes
So, other than MOP's Carlo (who's absolutely losing his mind over the game), who's hyped for Pearl Abyss' Crimson Desert? Because the Korean mega-studio...
The Stream Team: Playing in the Black Desert snow
Do you wanna build a snowman? That's what Black Desert Online is asking. And Massively OP's MJ yells yes! She definitely wants to get...
Black Desert PC adds Valkyrie, Tamer Succession skills plus huge December login perks as the Valkyrie class lands on Xbox One
There's a whole lot of Valkyrie goin' on in the most recent updates to Black Desert. On the PC version, the Valkyrie and Tamer...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2019
Everyone is healthy! Good news! Every game is super healthy and absolutely no one has a terminal playerbase disease that may result in the...
Black Desert Mobile has officially launched now around the globe
Pearl Abyss has officially done it: It's launched Black Desert on four total platforms now, three of them this year, now that Black Desert...
Black Desert’s Pearl Abyss addresses new succession skills, the Red Battlefield, and more
The devs of Black Desert have been busy collecting gobs of player questions, and now they have a number of them answered, which not...
The MOP Up: Mortal Online’s meaning of Christmas
What is Christmas like in a brutal and bloody sandbox MMORPG? To answer that, you'll need to head to Mortal Online for a first-hand...
Desert Oasis: A critique of Black Desert’s upcoming Tamer succession
Well, it looks like successions are finally here. This month's going to be a pretty big month for Black Desert's western audience with the...
Black Desert rolls out initial succession skills on PC, Shai and Mystic on PS4
It's succession day in Black Desert's PC version! No, not the succession of power; the introduction of succession skills to the first batch of...
One Shots: We are all bullies
Let us face the sad, sobering truth of our MMORPG experiences today. While we may like to think that we are noble heroes saving...
Crimson Desert’s lead producer talks about PvE, co-op campaigns, and trade
Our own Black Desert columnist and many of our readers have pondered aloud just what awaits players in Crimson Desert, one of several newly...
Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the MMO genre
Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.
Desert Oasis: A first look at Black Desert’s Dark Knight’s Succession skills
The Dark Knight holds a special place in my heart when it comes to Black Desert. She was the main reason I decided to give...
Black Desert previews succession skills, begins new Mysterious Knight event
Black Desert isn't letting a little thing like Thanksgiving and Black Friday get in the way of big updates across its multiple versions. Here's...
Choose My Adventure: Pushing boundaries and building a better house in Citadel Forged with Fire
As we come to the close of our Citadel: Forged with Fire adventure, we decided to push the absolute limits of how far we...
The Black Desert Online battle royale spinoff Shadow Arena places a premium on leveling your skills
If there was any MMO on the market that could break into the battle royale genre in a big way, it would seem to...
Black Desert PC teases its next class and Black Desert Mobile KR is adding the Mystic
It's all about classes in this bundle of Black Desert news, which might cause some to roll their eyes, but both additions should be...
Black Desert teams up with anime Berserk for themey ‘grim fantasy’ questing
Anime fans, today's Black Desert PC update is for you. As teased, Kakao and Pearl Abyss have dropped some transmedia synergy all up in...
Black Desert Online introduces PlayStation 4 players to the world of fairy companions
There are some players who think that Black Desert Online is an intensely hardcore game that rewards nothing so much as brutal combat efficiency. Then...