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Black Desert’s weekly patch is a big boost to UI customization
This week's Black Desert patch looks small on paper: the game's been buffed with new crafted costumes, ship repair kits, and a modification tool...
Choose My Adventure: Grinding away in Black Desert
Let me talk to you, my friends, about grinding. Specifically, about how it gets a bad reputation that it doesn’t altogether deserve.
How does this...
Black Desert’s Striker kickpunches his way onto Korean servers
The newest Black Desert class is no slouch in bringing meaty beatdowns to foes, as some players are discovering this week. The kick-punching martial...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has seen the most improved graphics over the years?
In each of our articles about Black Desert's upcoming graphics upgrade, there have been a slew of comments about how the game doesn't really...
Pearl Abyss might be hiring for a Black Desert Southeast Asia localization
It's always tricky to suss out unannounced plans for a developer from nothing more than job postings, but that's never stopped anyone before. Pearl...
The Stream Team: Egg-citing times in Black Desert Online
It's almost Easter, and that means it's time for egg hunts! Black Desert is celebrating the season with a Golden Flondor Goose Egg Event....
Black Desert promotes free trial with new ‘Friends’ trailer
In case you've somehow forgotten that Black Desert (inarguably one of the prettiest MMORPGs on the market and the winner of our MMO of the 2016...
Choose My Adventure: Learning to appreciate Black Desert
First and foremost, I'd like to thank the many people who informed me about how to hide the UI in Black Desert. I shouldn't...
Black Desert’s Dark Knight awakens as spring blossoms with new goose egg event
As promised, the popular Dark Knight class has awakened in Black Desert with today's weekly update. "Her awakening weapon, named ‘Vediant’ is a set of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 112: Heroic measures
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, Secret World Legends, Black Desert, EVE Fanfest, LOTRO, WoW, and GW2, with reader mail on MMO dress-up and City of Heroes successors.
Black Desert’s 2017 plans include Striker class, climbing, and airships
If you happen to be a Black Desert player, then this weekend is bound to be a time of joy and celebration for you....
Choose My Adventure: Muddling through the start of Black Desert
After my first week of playing, I don't know if I actually like Black Desert very much. I also don't know entirely if it's...
Black Desert plans Dark Knight awakening, weekend content reveal
The Black Knight awakens in Black Desert next week. Kakao says she's become "one of the most popular classes" since her launch in March.
"Her...
Black Desert gooses its players in this week’s patch
MMO got your goose? Now you can get it back with this week's Flondor Goose Egg event in Black Desert.
Courtesy of the new 1.37...
Black Desert’s South American edition will launch buy-to-play
Black Desert's South American edition will launch as a buy-to-play MMORPG, Portuguese-language website MMO Vicio reported earlier this week. Redfox Games will host servers...
Choose My Adventure: Gearing up for Black Desert
I’m going to be honest with you, folks; the last Choose My Adventure installment left me feeling kind of depressed. It’s a shame to...
Today’s Black Desert patch adds new voices, fogs up Kamasylvia release window
Don't like your voice in Black Desert? Time to change it! Kakao's patch today is live now and adds character voice customization -- 6...
Pearl Abyss is still working on a Black Desert console port
Back in January, we learned from a Black Desert Taiwan release interview that Pearl Abyss had big plans to port the Korean-born MMORPG to...
Black Desert GM punishes a player with a writing assignment
The hard part about being a GM has to be when you're dealing with a certain brand of player. You know the sort; they're...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up WildStar
Writing about WildStar at this point feels weird.
Obviously, I just finished up playing the game for this feature for four weeks. It feels fresh...
