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Roll a Mystic in Black Desert for fun and profit starting today
Fancy yourself a new Mystic toon in Black Desert? You can't play her just yet, but you can roll one starting today. The MMORPG...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017
As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
Black Desert lays out roadmap with new toon, region, class swapping, and weapon buffs
Over the weekend during South Korea's FESTA event, Pearl Abyss slipped out the news that Black Desert is due to get another character: Ran....
Black Desert welcomes new toon Ran to the roster
Is there room for another character class at the Black Desert table? Scooch over and make room no matter what you think on this,...
Black Desert: Epheria Frigate and cookies today; Mystic precustomization next week
Black Desert's Mystic class is finally porting westward in December - on the 13th, to be exact, although Kakao will let you "pre-customize" a...
Black Desert Mobile makes compromises to fit in your hand
When you take such a rich and full-featured MMO sandbox like Black Desert and try to fit it on mobile, it only stands to...
The Stream Team: Sightseeing the second half of Black Desert’s Kamasylvia
The second half of Black Desert Online's Kamasylvia expansion launched last week, and you know that means Massively OP's MJ has to explore it!...
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...