Earlier this month, a hentai game blew up. It wasn't the sex, though: people were talking about the game because of the incredibly detailed character creator. It's not the first time a game has exploded largely due to a character creator.

Black Desert Online is famous for its character creation tool. There is an upcoming mobile version of the Korean massively multiplayer game, and it also has an impressive-looking character creation tool.

Black Desert Online, the striking massively multiplayer online role-playing game with a strong focus on martial arts, is finally scoring some ninja on July 20. Don't they look amazing?

And now the moment I've all been waiting for, Korean blade warriors Musa and Maehwa arrive in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Black Desert Online later this month, demonstrating two slightly different ways to mix short bows and swords.

And I thought Blade & Soul was fast with the updates. Massively multiplayer role-playing game Black Desert Online officially launched in the West on March 3. Its first expansion arrives tomorrow.

Climbing, jumping long distances, clambering up ledges? Is this a fantasy MMORPG or an action adventure game? Why not both?

Black Desert Online launched in North America and Europe this week, giving many players their first taste of that character creator everyone's been raving about. This is what happens in the 30 minutes following character creations' end.

Still in head start access until tomorrow, Black Desert Online's North American launch has already encountered enough serious issues to fill a chart. The devs are calling it the "Shitstorm Matrix."

The official Western launch for the Korean PC MMORPG with the magical character creator of magic and creation is two days away, but we've got a little head start in Black Desert Online.

Enough reading about Black Desert Online's amazing character creation tool -- it's time to play with it. Ahead of next month's second closed beta test, Daum Games has released a standalone version of its character creation tools you can download for free.

After an hour straight of exploration in pure, uninterrupted solitude, I put down the controller and asked myself, "What on earth am I doing with my time?" I'd started a new save of Elite: Dangerous with the Horizons expansion that recently shipped. It predominately added the ability to "journey seamlessly from space to explore the surfaces of accurately simulated 1:1 scale planets and moons" throughout Frontier's virtual recreation of the Milky Way.

I was exploring Baker's Prospect, the moon base that functions as the default spawning location in Horizons. A mission on the station claimed that a pilot had crashed on the rocky wastes, and had only a few hours left to live. But I'd been driving around in my SRV, zooming my scanner in and out, searching for an asphyxiating NPC. After a full hour, I discovered nothing. No pilot, no rocks to mine, no extra bases, nothing. Just the cold, soulless solitude that Elite: Dangerous has to offer.

This is the problem.

The first closed beta test for the Western version of fantasy MMO Black Desert Online is live, giving select players their first taste of what we once called "the world's coolest character creation system." I might wind up having more fun making heroes than playing them.

We've seen Black Desert Online before. Its character creation is incredibly beautiful. But what its gameplay like? From the looks of it, quick. Now, we get a very good look at just how quick it is in glorious hi-def and 60 frames per second.