Category: EVE Online News

There’s a war happening in EVE Online. Much of it is being played out within the game itself, with players logging in night after night, hopping in ships, and heading to the frontlines to blow each other up. But there’s another less tangible war happening amid the explosions of virtual spaceships, and it’s not really happening within the game at all. It’s the propaganda war–and no one is winning.

CCP has revealed its next title being developed exclusively for virtual reality, this time for Google’s newly-announced Daydream platform. EVE: Gunjack Next devs are working with Google to ensure that it takes advantage of all of Daydream’s systems and features.

CCP Games is celebrating 13 years of EVE Online with a special blog post and a developer video from CCP Seagull sharing the game’s rich history. CCP Falcon has also penned a brief timeline of major events in EVE’s past.

Our own Gareth Harmer recently took part in a round table discussion on BBC Radio 5 in which he discusses EVE Online’s Citadels and the repercussions of the player-controlled structures. It’s a fun listen and interesting to hear from one of our own!

Beginning today, potential players can check out EVE Online for free and experience the game through Sunday, May 9th. In addition, EVE is 75% off its normal price, 50% off for the Premium Edition and there is a 10% discount on all Content Packs / PLEX / subscriptions.

Even though I admitted the same thing months earlier, meeting EVE players in real life remains one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever done. There’s this wonderful surrealism about sitting in a bar in Iceland with a person I’ve only just met, discussing a virtual war with the same intensity that we would later display talking about the American politics.

Launching today, the Citadels expansion is a significant step for EVE Online. It’s the result of a journey that started with Rubicon, gradually handing more of the nuts and bolts of New Eden into the hands of players. What started as Ghost Sites and simple structures has grown into an artificial intelligence and full-blown Citadels. But this expansion is just a milestone on that journey, with much more to come in the years ahead.

According to Wired, CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson is on record saying that the studio is “actively working on a serial adaptation of the popular game” alongside best-selling author Ridley Scott.

Fresh out of this week’s EVE Fanfest, CCP has released a brand new trailer for the next big update called Citadel. Citadel is expected to be released for EVE Online players on April 27th.

If you haven’t heard, EVE Online is on fire. Okay, well, not the entirety of New Eden is going up in flames. It’s just the large swathe of northern territory owned by The Imperium. If you’re not up to speed, I highly suggest reading the last Chronicles of New Eden to catch up to what’s been going on.