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Black Desert Mobile hands-on preview — one of the prettiest fantasy MMOs on mobile

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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South Korean game publisher Pearl Abyss is soft launching its highly anticipated Black Desert Mobile on the Google Play Store. I’ve had a look via a preview, and it is one of the prettiest games on smartphones. The game soft launches on October 24 on Android on Canada, Chile, Sweden, Malaysia, Turkey, Ireland and Australia.

The mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game is free-to-play. This fantasy game that matches most of the features of the heavy-duty 3D graphics title on the PC, which has has generated more than $1 billion in revenues since 2015.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.