Category: EVE Online News

A group of EVE Online players in Australia have rallied together to raise $5,405 for BeyondBlue, an Australian charitable organization that battles depression and anxiety. The funds were raised during a special EVE Down Under event held at the end of November in Sydney.

Fans of EVE Online and CCP will be interested to hear that tickets for the annual fan convention, EVE Fanfest, are now on sale at a variety of prices. Fanfest will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland from April 21-23, 2016 with tickets on sale all the way through April 20th.

Fans of EVE Online and CCP will be interested to hear that tickets for the annual fan convention, EVE Fanfest, are now on sale at a variety of prices. Fanfest will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland from April 21-23, 2016 with tickets on sale all the way through April 20th.

EVE Online has been updated with Operation Frostline that will directly pave the way for the Spring 2016 expansion: Citadel. In addition to some new game play action thanks to the Mordu’s Legion, the update also includes thirteen new ships and graphical updates.

Earlier this week, a tragic shooting event took place at a hospital in San Bernardino, California. According to members of the EVE Online community, long-time player Robert "Photon Torpedo" Adams was among the victims. Many memorial posts have been made on both Reddit and Facebook and a special GoFundMe account has been set up to assist his widow and baby girl.

Grath Telkin has a bit of a reputation. In the null-sec space of EVE Online, he is easily one of the most recognizable names, known for yelling at people and leading some of the most cutthroat players in the game. Pandemic Legion is a wrecking ball swinging from one fragile null-sec empire to the next, and their reputation for crushing their foes is, at this point, pretty well solidified.

GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that CCP Games has raised $30M in support of continued development of its virtual reality enterprises placing further emphasis on the company’s support of VR.

The Mitani in conjunction with CCP Games and writer Jeff Edwards have announced the commencement of a special Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to bring a novelized version of the events surrounding the "infamous Fountain War" to readers around the world.

Meeting someone in person that you’ve only ever talked to online is a surreal experience. When we talk to people on the internet, they tend to exist in this space where we ascribe them certain features and characteristics that aren’t really based on anything. We hear a voice, maybe see a few photos, and our brains fill in a billion blanks so that the voice we hear isn’t just some detached sound filtered through thousands of miles of cables. We compensate for what we don’t know about them.

The Human Protein Atlas has a problem. In its database exists over 13 million images that need mapping, and there just simply aren’t enough scientists to do it. But in the coming months, EVE Online players will be able to channel their passion for science fiction into solving this problem.