Our latest coverage of Black Desert Online.
Last month, Kakao asked Black Desert Online players and fans to get creative and show-off their video production skills in a Fan-Made Trailer Contest. Over 50 awe-inspiring videos were submitted during the contest period which ran from from May 3rd to May 31st. The devs have narrowed down the list to the top 10 videos, all of which are guaranteed [...]
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Microsoft revealed in their E3 presentation today that Black Desert Online will be coming to Xbox One in early 2018. Given the action oriented gameplay, Black Desert is well suited for console and I suspect it'll be quite successful on there. A PS4 release of BDO will likely happen sometime after the Xbox One release. Black Desert on Xbox One [...]
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Black Desert Online Grindfest Friday - MMOs.comWatch this video on YouTube Black Desert Online Grindfest Friday Black Desert Online is a buy to play action MMORPG from Kakao Games / Pearl Abyss. Despite being out for over a year in the West it launched on Steam on May 24th, 2017 and hit 300,000 sales within the first week. We've played [...]
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The other day, we reported that Black Desert Online had nearly reached 19,000 concurrent users on Steam, a number which consists entirely of players who specifically bought the game via Steam and decided to start over with new accounts. Well, now we may very well have sales data. A Reddit user pointed out the game's SteamSpy data yesterday, which is [...]
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Korean media site Pulse is reporting that Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss is preparing for its initial public offering on Korea's Kosdaq, which is set to occur later this year. Prior to this announcement, South Korean company Daishin Private Equity made an equity investment worth approximately $6.3 million in the company. Korea Investment & Securities Co. acquired its own [...]
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A mere 5 days after launching on Steam, Black Desert Online hit ~19,000 (rounding up) concurrent users and that number seems to be increasing everyday. With ~19,000 concurrent users, Black Desert Online is currently the most popular MMORPG on Steam (Second if you count Warframe as an MMORPG). This is remarkable because Black Desert Online isn't a new game. It [...]
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Black Desert Online officially launched on Steam yesterday and hit ~4.5k concurrent players within 24 hours. Although it may not seem like much for such a huge game, keep in mind anyone playing on Steam is a New player, as players could not transfer their accounts on Steam and anyone who wanted to play on Steam had to buy the [...]
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Black Desert Online is making its Steam debut later today. Unfortunately, players who already have a Black Desert account and want to play through Steam will have to create a new one and roll a character from scratch. Check out the newly-released Steam trailer below. Watch this video on YouTube The new Striker class is also making its way into [...]
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Kakao Games Europe announced today that Black Desert Online's Striker is set to go live on May 24th, the same day that the game is launching on Steam. The Striker has been available in the Korean version of the game for some time now, NA/EU players will get their first chance to try out the martial arts-based class once the [...]
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Kakao Games Europe announced today that Black Desert Online will be launching on Steam in North America and Europe on May 24th. Those who would like to add it to their wishlists can do so via the Steam store page, which is already live. I imagine, however, that current owners of the game will not be receiving a Steam key. [...]
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