Black Desert Online News

Black Desert Online has kicked off Lunar New Year festivities on PC with the return of the annual Lucky Rice Sieve of Good Fortune event. During the event, players will be awarded one Lucky Rice Sieve a day per Family upon accumulating 60 minutes of playtime. The Lucky Rice Sieve can be exchanged for the Tender Braised Short Ribs event [...]

Pearl Abyss is paving the way for the major class reboot coming to Black Desert Online later this month with a small but still significant update. Headlining the latest update is an increase in the maximum of character slots that can be unlocked using Character Slot Expansion Coupons. Players can now unlock up to 26 character slots with plans to [...]

Last weekend’s Calpheon Ball online event saw several major announcements and reveals for Black Desert Online. One of the biggest highlights of the show was the unveiling of a new snow-covered mountain zone called the Mountain of Eternal Winter. The new zone will be coming to PC and consoles within the first half of 2022. Another highlight of the show [...]

Yar in for a treat in Black Desert Online with the recent addition of a new card-based mini-game for the PC version called “Yar!”. The mini-game is based on Poker and Yacht with special titles in store for players who rack up the required number of victories against other players or against NPCs. Here’s how it works: “The basics revolve [...]

Instead of introducing new costumes, Pearl Abyss is having Black Desert Online players take on a giant rampaging robot called Innocence Mk XII for Halloween. Don’t be fooled by the name though, there’s nothing innocent about Mad Scientist Marni’s newest creation. To take on the hulking heap of metal, you and anyone else who wants to participate in the battle [...]

Pearl Abyss announced today as a part of their developer roadmap that Black Desert Online will be coming to Nextgen consoles sometime in the future. Though players are being asked to be patient with this. Please note that this endeavor will take some time before we can roll out these versions. While we regret that you may have to wait [...]

Live service MMO developers know that launching a great game is just the first step in a very long journey of post-launch tweaks and creating new content. Unfortunately, some developers tend to focus the latter rather than fixing or improving existing features and content. A trap that Black Desert Online Executive Producer Jae-Hee Kim admits they fell into over the [...]

Black Desert Online is celebrating its 2nd anniversary on the PlayStation 4 with a free gift package for all console players, including those on the Xbox One. The gift pack contains a variety of in-game goodies with the most valuable being the Treasurable Memories Classic Box. “Adventurers can open it to get a classic costume for the character they are [...]

The Corsair, Black Desert Online’s new pirate mermaid class, has just received her Awakening Skills today, giving her access to a colorful new dress, a bejeweled gunblade, and a harpoon, as well as an “ott-illery” crew of otters to help her make quicker work of her enemies. “As the beloved captain of the Slippery Scallywags, she can give out orders [...]

As promised, Black Desert Online is getting its first co-op dungeon today as Atoraxxion officially rolls out on PC and consoles. “Atoraxxion, the last stronghold, requires five Adventurers to work together to defeat the enemies and conquer the dungeon - creating a new experience for Black Desert players. The highly-anticipated PvE dungeon is divided into four themed territories: desert, ocean, [...]