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First contact with native tribes and species in MMOs hardly ever goes the diplomatic route; usually there's a lot of stabbing, fire-setting, plundering, and...

Community Q&A sessions are pretty popular these days, but usually they involve developers selecting questions and parceling the answers out accordingly. This Black Desert...

There aren't a large number of MMOs that celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, probably because it's easier to come up with vague lore-appropriate reasons to...

Hello, friends, and welcome back to Desert Nomad. This week, I'd like to take the opportunity to talk about a subject that has been...

There's some controversy in the Black Desert community about an item that you can buy offering a serious advantage, and yes, it's the Ghillie...

How would you celebrate Pi Day? And not just any regular Pi Day, but a once-in-a-century Rounded Pi Day? MassivelyOP's MJ is going to...

There is a grand conspiracy among MMO developers and it is this: Every last one of them has entered into a blood pact to...

One of the aspects of Black Desert that MassivelyOP's MJ has been looking forward to the most is  trade; she's always preferred waging economic warfare...

"Due to the increased 'goldseller' population, we are beginning to put systems in place to suppress their market." These words come from the Black Desert...

Welcome back, fellow Desert Nomads. I don't know about y'all, but since last week's column (and the official launch of Black Desert), I've spent...

When a new game comes out, you can play it cautious by waiting for reviews or you can roll the dice and take your...

In answer to player requests for more challenging content, devs added a new boss system to Black Desert in Korea. The bosses actually stayed...

Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert, Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, No Man's Sky, World of Fishing, and AdventureQuest 3D, with a mailbag question on broken dev promises.

If you're having a hard time logging into or playing Black Desert Online, then take heart: The team is working on increasing server capacity...

The wait is over for everyone, Black Desert is out and playable, and if you've been looking forward to the game but still aren't...

Can that creepy little Black Desert black smoke buddy actually get creepier? Yes, yes it can, as MassivelyOP's MJ recently learned. She was just questing...

Welcome to Black Desert's official North American and European launch day! The servers are down right now for maintenance before the big rush, but we've...

Black Desert has elaborated on the compensation and support it will offer players in the wake of its headstart issues: "We all know that every game...

Justin, Bree, and Matt discuss Blade & Soul, The Division, Black Desert, WildStar, Final Fantasy XIV, and a mailbag question on Destiny 2.

Massively OP reader Leiloni pointed out to us something unusual about Black Desert: Its much-talked-about cash shop wasn't originally going to open until March 10th,...