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Black Desert introduces Thanksgiving boss event and halves its B2P fee
Kakao announced today both Thanksgiving celebrations and sales for Black Desert. In fact, it's a good time to be jumping into BDO as a...
Black Desert resolves disconnect issues, promises compensation
North American players have not had the best go of it in Black Desert over the last few weeks. Frequent disconnects have plagued the...
Player protests are kicking off in Black Desert right now
Black Desert players are taking the fight to... OK, to Black Desert, in Black Desert, to protest stuff in Black Desert. Right as this post...
Leaderboard: What do you expect out of live MMORPG events in 2017?
Earlier this month, Black Desert GMs ran a live in-game event. I was super excited to hear about something like that in a newer...
Black Desert devs responds to datamining dust-up with stat transparency and apologies
Remember a week ago when Black Desert dataminers dug up dirt on the game's so-called hidden stats, only to be booted off the subreddit...
Hyperspace Beacon: Assessing SWTOR one week after the big server merges
Many people believe that server merges are innately bad because in games like ArcheAge (or even all the way back to Star Wars Galaxies),...
Ride to Black Desert’s Kamasylvia part 2 on your ‘dream’ horse
Happy Kamasylvia day! Yep, the second half of the massive Kamasylvia expansion has dropped on Black Desert today, though it's not been without its...
Check out the combat coming for Black Desert Mobile
We don't mean to alarm you, dear readers, but even in the upcoming Black Desert Mobile you will be expected to fight things. You...
Black Desert’s Kamasylvia II expansion launches Wednesday and it’s so pretty
Don't tell Justin, but elf-land in Black Desert is about to get much bigger, as the second half of the Kamasylvia update is finally...
Black Desert Mobile’s character creation is no slouch
Concerned that there is no way for Black Desert Mobile to keep up with its big brother in the character creation department? You may...
Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate
Did you know about all the MMOs I hate? I sure as heck didn't! I mean, I knew there were a few games I...
Black Desert’s Reddit community erupts over Pearl Abyss’ datamining suppression
So how do you feel about dataminers? One player apparently datamined a significant chunk of info about Black Desert's so-called hidden stats, posting everything...
Kakao will launch Bluehole’s Ascent: Infinite Realm MMORPG in the west
Good morning! Who wants some genuinely good news for the MMORPG genre? Great. Black Desert publisher Kakao is bringing Ascent: Infinite Realm westward. That'd...
Black Desert kicks off world boss Saturdays, runs through all the seasons in a week
World bosses seem to be the thing to add to MMOs the last few years to encourage server cooperation, and Black Desert is now...
Black Desert revamps endgame PvP with new militia system
All right, my PvP dudes. If you love PvP in MMOs but aren't into cheapo ganking over prime farm spots, you reallllly need to...
Black Desert publisher Kakao declares 550M registered users across all its games
Black Desert publisher and South Korean gaming giant Kakao announced this morning that it's accumulated "over 550 million registered users across its games portfolio...
Black Desert adds militias and platoons, starts closed beta signups for Southeast Asia
Black Desert's November 1st update is sporting a couple of new ways for players to group up and pursue a common goal.
The militia system...
The MOP Up: Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet announced (October 29, 2017)
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 ramps up Halloween, brings back black stone event, and deals with downtime
Over in Black Desert, there's a red moon rising, and that's just how the players like it. Halloween is ramping up in intensity thanks...
One Shots: Street legal
"Looks like it’s that time of year again!" says Ryuen.
And so it is. The Halloween season has come upon us and it is inescapable. You...