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Massively Overthinking: What keeps you from playing mobile MMOs?
Earlier this week, we wrote about Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss' IPO and its grand plans for the future - among them, four additional...
Pearl Abyss is building four more MMOs as Black Desert swells to 7.65M registered users
We've been tracking Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss' path to IPO since last spring, when multiple Korean outlets began reporting that the company sought...
Black Desert is getting a Spanish localization
Remember when Black Desert wasn't localized in English and every attempt to play it involved jumping through a lot of hoops in a language...
Massively Overthinking: Female characters and gender-locked classes in MMOs
One of the reasons I gravitated to and stick by the MMORPG genre in spite of its many ups and downs (oh, so many...
Black Desert launches Savage Rift patch, back-to-school cash-shop promo
Savage Rift is live in Black Desert today as promised; it's the co-op tower defense minigame in which teams of players will protect the...
Black Desert launches a tower defense mode dubbed Sealed Tower tomorrow
Tomorrow's Black Desert update will make the new biweekly cadence all worthwhile. Its headline feature? Savage Rift, a de facto co-op tower defense minigame...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tops Steam concurrency, drawing from CS:GO’s playerbase
Remember a few weeks back when PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds took League of Legends to town on Twitch, beating Riot's giant for eyeball share on the...
Black Desert censures Pearl Abyss Taiwan employees found cheating
Let this Black Desert story be a lesson. Actually, no, let it be two lessons: Don't cheat, and definitely don't cheat if your job...
Black Desert shows off 4K console version at Gamescom
It might have gotten buried in this massive list, but Black Desert is one of the MMOs that's slated to receive enhanced treatment by...
Xbox One X announces ‘select enhanced titles’ that include many online games
At its pre-Gamescom press conference this Sunday, Microsoft revealed more about its upcoming Xbox One X and its glorious 4K gaming capabilities. As part...
The MOP Up: Black Desert shows pet love (August 20, 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 parent corporation is merging all its game businesses
MMORPG players know Kakao chiefly as the publishing and localization giant behind Pearl Abyss-developed Black Desert, but over in its native South Korea, the...
Black Desert Korea introduces a skill fusion system
Have more than enough skills on your hotbar these days? Might as well mash them together and see what happens! Yes, it's like your...
Today’s Black Desert patch buffs new characters with extra skills
It's an every-other-Wednesday, so you know what that means: It's patch day in Black Desert. Kakao says it's launched another round of the Rulupee's...
Check out a trailer for Black Desert’s mobile version
The idea of having a mobile version of Black Desert is no doubt appealing to you if you love the game but occasionally have...
Black Desert offers NA players a compensation package for emergency maintenance
Good news for Black Desert players in North America, you got some free compensation! The bad news is that it's to make up for...
Massively Overthinking: Is the popularity of small-scale co-op games hurting MMORPGs?
Gamasutra has an unusual piece from an Ubisoft developer this week arguing that co-op gameplay is the industry's rising midcore trend, one that he...
Black Desert team reveals perma-AFK leveling, tent camping, and a wicked sea monster
(We've updated this article since it went live with additional notes from Kakao - it's all at the end!)
When it comes to divining the future...
Black Desert Korea teases massive ocean boss Bell
There's no Black Desert patch today as expected, given that Kakao has switched from weekly to biweekly updates. But there's a bit of interesting...
