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March 15, 2018

EVE Online – Players Take to the Heavens in Tribute to Stephen Hawking

After the passing yesterday of renowned and much-beloved Professor Stephen Hawking, EVE Online players took to the heavens to light beacons in his honor. Pilots lit capital ship cynosural beacons out in null space in honor of Hawking at 3:00 pm Pacific yesterday. “Take out a noob frigate or sth. and spend a little ozone for one of the brightest minds humanity has ever had.” the post said to encourage participation. Those words worked.

March 1, 2018

EVE Online – Team Security to Provide Information About the Ongoing Fight Against Botting

Team Security is one of the many divisions of EVE Online developers. In a new blog post on the official site, the Team lets the community know what it has been up to most recently and how it is continuing its ongoing fight against “botting and other general nastiness that occurs in New Eden”.

February 21, 2018

EVE Online – Huge Reduction in Fatigue Accumulation Coming in March

The EVE Online site has another extensive blog post detailing some big changes coming to the game in the March update. Most notably, players will see a small, but meaningful, change to the jump fatigue mechanic. The mechanic, according to the blog, has been one of the “least satisfying” ones since its introduction in 2014. As a result of volumes of player feedback and developer discussion, a big change is coming to reduce fatigue accumulation.

February 20, 2018

EVE Online – EVE Voice to Retire with the March Release

The EVE Online site has been updated with a brief post to let pilots know that EVE Voice, the embedded chat system, is retiring with the March update. This is one of the systems that is holding back the development of a 64-bit client and one that is used by less than 1% of the pilots in EVE Online. The removal of EVE Voice from the client is part of the “clean up of our in-game communications system”.

February 13, 2018

EVE Online – Cruise Into Guardian’s Gala to Take on ‘Fearsome Pirates of New Eden’

The Guardian’s Gala has arrived in EVE Online, the annual Serpentis Corporation gathering. Players will be able to fight alongside law enforcement to try to stop underworld gangs crashing this party. In addition, the New Eden Store has some new additions for Valentine’s Day including SKINs, fireworks and more.

January 24, 2018

EVE Online – Bringing Down a Keepstar-Class Citadel Could Cost Pandemic Horde $1M

EVE Online players are massing for what appears to be the most costly, if not the largest, space battle in the game’s history. Over the course of the past two weeks, The Imperium has been assaulting Pandemic Horde’s Keepstar-class Citadel, the largest single structure that players can own. As of today, the Keepstar is in serious trouble and, if destroyed, it could cost players over a million dollars in in-game items.

January 19, 2018

EVE Online – Player Generosity Nets Nearly $120K for Fallen CCP Dev’s Family

In December, CCP Games lost one of its own when CCP Blaze passed away suddenly. To honor his memory and to assist his fiancee and young daughter, CCP asked players to help out by purchasing a special Blaze Squadron Skin for 495 PLEX. The results of the memorial effort are in. Thanks to the generosity of EVE Online players, CCP will be sending $119,828.50 to Blaze’s family on behalf of the community.

January 18, 2018

EVE Online – Upwell 2.0 to be Released on February 13th

The EVE Online site has been updated with a detailed post to reveal big changes in store when the Upwell 2.0 update hits live servers on February 13th. Players can look forward to a number of significant updates to Upwell structures with four distinct features in mind: Full / Low power modes; new vulnerability & reinforcement system; major structure combat overhaul; and moon mining in Wormhole space and some Highsec systems. Each pillar of the design philosophy is detailed in the blog.

January 9, 2018

EVE Online – First 2018 Patch Deployed, Brings Changes & Improvements to The Agency

The first major update to EVE Online in 2018 has been deployed and it brings with it a number of improvements to The Agency, most notably in that players will be able to check out all sorts of in-game content right from within the UI. Faction Warfare, Incursion and Expeditions have all been moved inside The Agency interface. As a result, the Agent Finder is “being retired”.

December 19, 2017

EVE Online – Rogue Swarm Nest Infesting the Game During Yoiul Festival

EVE Online players can head into the game to help stem the infestation of Rogue Swarm Nests that have spread throughout the cluster. Players have a chance to earn some Glacial Drift Skins and to find “useful training accelerators, valuable loot and salvage and more. Players are also able to score some rewards via The Agency that include fireworks and festival launchers.