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Black Desert celebrates the Halloween season on PC and console with new and continuing events
The creepies and crawlies are wriggling their way across Black Desert this week, as the sandbox MMORPG is offering up some Halloween fun for the PC and console edition fans to enjoy. We hope there’s lots of enjoyment happening, anyway. We’ll begin with the PC version, which is continuing the spooky...
Black Desert introduces a new level cap and smooths its XP curve on PC, removes Frost Highlands on mobile
Have you found the climb to max level in Black Desert’s PC version just a bit too spiky after a certain point? Are you hungry for those sweet, sweet monster zone farms and more sandboxy activities, but that funny little number just isn’t big enough? Well Pearl Abyss has good news for you because...
Black Desert Mobile celebrates a Moonlight Festival to ring in the autumn season
Most of us here in the northern hemisphere associated autumn with colder days, falling leaves, and all of the spooky scary skeletons imaginable. Black Desert Mobile is here to give players in this part of the globe a taste of a different autumn tradition with the Moonlight Festival that’s going on...
Black Desert Mobile introduces Moonlight Festival packed with rewards for you to earn
One benefit of so many games being built for audiences around the globe is that you get extra goodies from seasonal events! And with the Moon Festival underway in countries such as China, Black Desert Mobile is getting in on the festivities. Black Desert Mobile has kicked off its own Moonlight...
Black Desert Mobile Kicks off Moonlight Festival With Exciting Seasonal Rewards
The Moonlight Festival is now live in Black Desert Mobile, bringing new missions, rewards, Moonlight Fragments, and EXP boosts. The post Black Desert Mobile Kicks off Moonlight Festival With Exciting Seasonal Rewards appeared first on COGconnected.
Black Desert Online Launches Edinia Part II With Final Boss
Black Desert Online has launched Edinia Part II, bringing a decade worth of storytelling to a climax with a major boss battle.
Black Desert PC brings the final chapter of its main quest line to the realm of Inner Edania
Evidently, the main story line for Black Desert on PC is just wrapping up Act I. It may come as a surprise to us, but if you’re a fan of the MMORPG who has been all about the story to this point, then know that the latest patch on PC is bringing Act I to a close. […]
Black Desert makes Inner Edania changes on PC and a big swath of class and item updates on mobile
Welcome once again to another weekly roundup of Black Desert news, friends. And just as the headline of this story suggests, most of what’s happening in the versions of the sandbox are pretty small in the grand scheme of things, but there’s also enough to report on in this usual digest as well. So...
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[September 10] Enjoy Relaxing Fall with Cooking/Alchemy Hot Time!
Check out this week's new events! Black Desert Weekend with Cool Breeze Sept 11, 2026 (Fri) 00:00 - Sept 13, 2026 (Sun) 23:59 (UTC) A surprise black desert weekend is here for fall! Shout the keywords below together in World Chat. A surprise black desert weekend is here for fall! * As long as your...
Black Desert opens Inner Edania on console, integrates life skill gear on PC, and adds a shared chest on mobile
It’s not every time that the console version of Black Desert gets top billing in our weekly look at recent additions, but this week it indeed does, as the sandbox MMORPG has added all of the goodies of Edania Part 2 for players on their console platform of choice. Just like their PC brethren, this...
Black Desert PC adds more things to do in the Great Ocean and starts its next guild season
Just in case that headline didn’t clue you in, this week’s Black Desert news is almost entirely full of goodies for the PC version of the sandbox. Sure, there’s a little bit out of the mobile version as well, but the most recent patch on PC has quite a bit more going on comparatively speaking. Some...
Black Desert bonks the Agent with a buff bat on PC and brings guild fame updates to console
As is often the case for the weekly patches applied to Black Desert, there are another round of balance changes for several classes on PC. Also, a variety of them are touching the recently added Agent class. Both of these should probably come as little surprise to players at this point, but they...
Black Desert Mobile celebrates one year of its united global server with five weeks of events
Back in August 19th, 2025, Black Desert Mobile merged several regions into one “united server” as a way to draw players from these areas together for activities (and likely for population reasons). Now, it looks as if Pearl Abyss is looking to celebrate that server merging with five weeks of events...
Black Desert Launches Edania: Part 2 To Challenge Veteran Players
Black Desert has officially launched Edania: Part 2, bringing new challenges in a new region to test even the strongest players.
Pearl Abyss Q2 2026: Crimson Desert tapers off, Black Desert flattens, DokeV eyes 2028
As we noted last quarter, Pearl Abyss has shifted over to doing just earnings letters, not investor calls, and that pattern has continued into Q2 2026. And readers will recall that in Q1, Pearl Abyss was riding high on the launch of Crimson Desert, a game that was once an MMO but was downgraded...
Black Desert PC adds more monster zones, new bosses, and new accessories with Edania Part 2
You better believe that a zone in Black Desert can get a sequel: This week marks the release of Edania Part 2, the name for the update that adds more Edania goodness including monster zones, big bads, and shiny goodies for endgame players to gather. All of the new stuff can now be found within […]
Black Desert launches the guild fame system on PC, brings the Agent and Hyperboost to console
Fame! I wanna guild forever! I wanna grind to the sky! Hiiiigh! Ahem, sorry for the song interlude, but it kind of fits because Black Desert has brought guild fame to the PC version of the sandbox. It’s a progression system and not an in-game recreation of the ’80s film, though we have to admit...
Black Desert Mobile continues content streamlining by removing instances and rescheduling PvP activities
Black Desert Mobile started efforts to streamline content with last week’s patch, and this week that work continues by removing a selection of various instances from the game. It doesn’t get a whole lot more streamlined than having less activities, but that’s primarily because rewards that were...
Black Desert Mobile Receives a Streamlined Update
Pearl Abyss dropped a new update this week for Black Desert Mobile, as they have made the game a little more streamlined for players.
Black Desert Online Launches New Agent Class Today
The latest update for Black Desert Online has been released, adding the highly anticipated Agent class to the roster and more.
Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s latest content has huge implications for the future of the MMO
I had a blast at the Heidel ball, but boy was I busy. There were so many reveals and it was all in a single two-and-a-half hour block that my head spun from the sheer volume of things that’s coming to the game. I barely had any time to even think of how these changes […]
Black Desert PC launches the Agent class and hands out the Hyperboost to players in latest patch
Say, friends, would you like to feel as though your Black Desert character has been boosted in their progression at levels normally reserved for late ’90s energy soda advertisements? Or perhaps you’d like to play as Legally Distinct Leon Kennedy Because Glasses? Your chance to do both of these...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 574: Is it getting Evercold in here or is it just me?
Justin and Bree discuss EQ Legends, Seed, FFXIV Evercold, Guild Wars 3, The Guild's Kickstarter, and Black Desert's Heidel Ball, with adventures in LOTRO and Site Security Online, heh.
Black Desert Mobile adds a new PvPvE battlefield and revamps its pet system
Generally nightmares are things that one would try to avoid, but if you happen to be a PvP’ing fan in Black Desert Mobile, then nightmare zones are precisely the kind of thing you chase. And it just so happens that the latest patch for the mobile sandbox has added a fresh nightmare area to rumble...
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