Our latest coverage of Shadow Arena.
On July 8, 2022 Pearl Abyss announced that their fantasy themed Battle Royale title Shadow Arena was shutting down. The Black Desert Online spinoff was first revealed at G-Star in November 2019 and was released into Early Access in May 2020. Now, about two years since launch the game is scheduled to shut down. Game download and in-game currency purchases [...]
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Pearl Abyss brings back a pair of revamped heroes to Shadow Arena as part of the game’s new team-focused gameplay. Tantu and Wu-ju now return to the battlefield with enhanced abilities to fit the recently-introduced team roles in the Black Desert Online-inspired PvP game. Tantu returns as a powerful damage dealer with a wide-range of firing power. Two of his [...]
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Earlier this month, Shadow Arena shifted their focus from battle royale to team-based trio matches. In line with this, Pearl Abyss has decided to rework certain heroes to tie in with the new gameplay mechanics and hero roles. One of these heroes is Venslar the Holy Knight, a previously offensive hero who is now returning to the game as a [...]
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Pearl Abyss has changed the Shadow Arena main game mode from the original 40-player battle royale to the new team-based Trio Mode. According to the studio, the shift is the result of feedback from the community asking for more cooperative and strategic gameplay. Of course, it may also have something to do with the game’s dwindling playerbase. The new trio [...]
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A new hero has arrived in Pearl Abyss’ Black Desert-inspired battle royale game, Shadow Arena. Hexe Marie, the Immortal Witch, is the 19th hero in the game and uses sorcery to deal damage to enemies from afar and summon a skeleton army to fight for her. “By using the Wicked Sorcery skill, she can summon various enemies including Skeleton Soldiers [...]
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Don’t you just hate it when you engage enemies in Shadow Arena and your teammates are nowhere to be found or are too far away to matter? Well, Pearl Abyss has just rolled out a new update for the Black Desert Online inspired battle royale game that introduces a number of much-needed quality-of-life improvements such as an enhanced ping system [...]
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Today’s Shadow Arena update gives players a little more gameplay variety with the addition of a team deathmatch mode. In the new mode, two teams of five players fight it off in 20-minute matches. The first team to reach 30 kills or the team with the most kills when the timer runs down wins the match. Unlike regular battle royale [...]
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After a few months of being PC-exclusive, Shadow Arena is finally coming to consoles. Pear Abyss has just confirmed that the Black Desert Online-inspired battle royale game will be launching on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One later this year. An official release date has yet to be announced. Meanwhile, Pearl Abyss has just debuted a new hero on the PC [...]
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The latest Shadow Arena update features a new addition to the slowly-growing roster of heroes in the Black Desert Online-inspired battle royale game. Lahn is a semi-ranged hero that can stun enemies from decent range and can either dash in or pull them to initiate the fight. “The new Hero ‘Lahn’ can strategically reposition her enemies by pulling her opponents [...]
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Pearl Abyss’ Black Desert Online battle royale spin-off, Shadow Arena, initially started life as an additional game mode for the original game last year. It was later taken down before resurfacing as a standalone game, and after several rounds of open beta tests, is now officially live on Steam Early Access. According to the press release, the Early Access version [...]
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