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Black Desert boosts rewards, adds new systems; Black Desert Mobile goes to a secret place
There's a bunch of new stuff in the latest patch to Black Desert. New reusable consumable items? Sure thing, you can assemble some concentrated...
One Shots: The ultimate waterbed
I had an aunt and uncle in Florida who had a waterbed. We always thought it was the most bizarrely awesome thing, although now...
Desert Oasis: How I’m progressing through Black Desert without spending a dime
I've been playing Black Desert for quite a while, and in that time I've made a bit of cash and built up a stable...
Black Desert issues a juice challenge, Black Desert Mobile adds tier 5 pets and celebrates strawberries
There are some fresh updates to Black Desert and Black Desert Mobile, and once again they're full of events for players to enjoy. This...
Shadow Arena drops hero video, plans big changes ahead of final beta
With its final beta coming up in just a week, Shadow Arena studio Pearl Abyss is ramping up the hype machine. Today's hook is...
Massively Overthinking: What generates trust in MMO crowdfunding for you?
Last week, an anonymous game developer posted on the MMORPG Reddit about the broader MMO playerbase's frustrations with crowdfunding. See, this dev says he's...
Black Desert brings a water festival and a golden goose event to PC, barbecue missions to mobile
Black Desert and Black Desert Mobile are once more just full of events for players to take part in, including a water festival, golden...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 266: Feline fine for April Fools
Justin, Bree, Carlo, and Ben discuss April Fools, Elyon, Elder Scrolls Online, Black Desert, RuneScape, City of Heroes, World of Warships, SWG Legends, LOTRO, WoW Classic, Legends of Aria, shortie races, and gaming disorder.
Massively Uplifting: Cake, coloring, and EVE Online’s PLEX4Good COVID-19 relief
The news this past month has been infected with the novel coronavirus. It's everywhere we turn, and we can't escape it even if we...
One Shots: A nose in a book
I love me a good library. When I was a kid, going to libraries and book stores were some of my favorite outings, so...
Desert Oasis: A guide to getting started with Black Desert’s lifeskill system
For pretty much all of my MMO-gaming career, I avoided anything involving crafting, gathering, and cooking. If the problem can't be solved with a...
Black Desert’s guild event gets exploited all up in its face
When there's a will, there's a way. And when the devs overlook something that can be abused, there's an exploit waiting to happen.
Black Desert's...
Black Desert gets an April Fools’ event on PC, Drieghan on console, and new events on mobile
Whew! The down side of having so many different versions of Black Desert is that when an update day rains, it pours. And it...
Grab a key for Shadow Arena’s final beta, courtesy of Pearl Abyss and MOP
As we've been covering, Pearl Abyss is gearing up for a 2020 release of Shadow Arena, the standalone battle royale based on Black Desert's...
Massively Overthinking: What do you hoard in MMORPGs?
Last week, online gamers made headlines for hoarding toilet paper. No, not in real life - in Fallout 76. Way to embrace the apocalypse,...
Perfect Ten: The stages of the MMO life cycle
To this day, no one has a quote as useful on the subject of life and death as E. B. White: "We're born, we...
Black Desert’s Find Your Oasis event brings boosts to drops and lots of goodies to chase on PC
"During dire times, a boost in morale helps greatly to endure and overcome," opens the announcement from Black Desert, and in the interest of...
The Dark Knight arrives to Black Desert Mobile with today’s update
No, you can't be Batman, but what you can be in today's Black Desert Mobile update is a lady who wears a pauldron shaped...
One Shots: Mining the safe, responsible way
When it comes to the careful and meticulous extraction of natural resources from the planet, it pays great dividends to hew to our 32-point...
Black Desert brings a spring event and more anniversary celebrations to PC, Maehwa class to console
If you like your Black Desert with a whole lot of little in-game events, then the most recent update to the MMORPG on PC...