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Just Like Real Life, EVE Online Wars Are Won With Propaganda
EVE Online wars can go on for months or years, often requiring players to go above and beyond what would normally be expected of people playing a video game as a hobby. They might have to set their alarm clocks to wake up in the middle of the night for a battle, call in sick…
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Annual EVE Online Tournament Kicks Off With A Daring Bluff
On the opening day of EVE Online’s annual Alliance Tournament, one team used a clever bluff to secure its first win. The official once-a-year tournament is unlike all other EVE Online combat, since all competitors start with the same set of equipment. The fights take place on the main EVE server, but in unreachable star…
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In EVE Online War, Spawn Camping Goes On For A Week
It takes a special sort of character to lead a fictional armada into battle. Those few that have what it takes are household names. James T. Kirk. Admiral Ackbar. Doomchinchilla. … Doomchinchilla? Okay, he may not be famous outside of EVE Online, but inside it, Doomchinchilla is reknowned for commanding one of the longest-standing and…
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EVE Online Alliances Are Positioning For A Massive War
Over the past week, the overwhelming majority of EVE Online’s player run coalitions have begun to band together and field some of the most powerful fleets that the game has ever seen. The game’s galaxy map is split along its North-South axis, with each side attempting to drive a vanguard strike deep into the heart…
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Warring EVE Factions Take A Break To Remember A Fallen Friend
EVE Online factions have been at each others’ throats for ages, but they do occasionally do nice things for each other. Recently, one of these rare awwwww moments happened: the donation of a memorial to player Sean “Vile Rat” Smith, who lost his life in the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi. The player-controlled…
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EVE Online Elections Probably Involved Vote-Buying, But That’s OK
Players suspect that the election results for EVE Online’s thirteenth Council of Stellar Management may have been tainted by dirty tricks, including out-and-out vote buying. Of course, this being EVE, dirty tricks are perfectly legal. Players from all over the world recently cast their votes to elect representatives from amongst their ranks to sit on…
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EVE Online and Star Citizen Fans Trade Barbs Over Spaceship Design
Fans of the still-in-development space game Star Citizen have been able to piece together scattered images of a brand new ship design from social media clues. This first look at the newly designed salvaging and utility ship, the Vulture, has many of them very excited—and many EVE Online players a bit perturbed. The Vulture’s design…
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New EVE Online Expansion Offers Serious Risks With Big Rewards
EVE Online players have been officially invited to dive Into the Abyss. The game’s latest expansion revolves around newly-discovered Abyssal Deadspace, which claims to be beautiful and deadly new space to explore. Players can expect to find rich rewards and deadly new foes in this largely PvE-centric new expansion. Abyssal Deadspace offers a brand new…
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The Real-Life Politician Running For EVE Online‘s In-Game Council
Every year, EVE Online players are asked to do something that is not often done in a virtual world: Vote to elect an officially recognized representative pseudo-government. One of this year’s candidates has a background that might uniquely prepare him to serve. The Council of Stellar Management consists of ten players who are chosen from…
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New Book Chronicles The Continuing History Of EVE Online
“I love reading stories about EVE, but I just can’t get into the game.” That’s the quintessential response any time EVE Online is mentioned. The spacefaring MMO has a legendary barrier to entry, but those who manage to break through find a world of stellar empires, pirate warlords, intrigue and betrayal. A new book will…
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At EVE Fanfest, A Wedding Officiated By The ‘Space Pope’
Last week, two EVE Online players chose to share their life’s happiest moments with the community at EVE Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland, where they were joined in holy matrimony by the Space Pope. Tairon Usaro and Irma Amatin, dressed in formal Amaarian cosplay, tied the knot on stage during the Fanfest livestream. The couple met…
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EVE Publisher Details New Expansion And FPS Spinoff
EVE Online’s annual FanFest event is in full swing in Reykjavik, Iceland, hometown of publisher CCP Games. This year’s event marks the 15th anniversary of EVE Online, and CCP took the opportunity to detail the game’s 37th free expansion, Into the Abyss, during a keynote presentation today. It also delivered updates on the mysterious “Project…
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As EVE Fanfest Approaches, Players Dig Up Intriguing Storyline Clues
Over the past few weeks, some EVE Online players with a penchant for research and discovery have stumbled onto what appears to be a new story thread hidden in the game—perhaps a little bit before the game’s publisher wanted them to. Unlike many other contemporary MMORPGs whose stories are presented through obvious quests highlighted in…
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EVE Online Trolls Raided An Accordion Player’s Twitch Stream And It Was Awesome
EVE Online players have a bit of a reputation in the broader online gaming community: Whether deserved or not, they are often seen as villains, bullies, and backstabbers. The rep of the Goonswarm Federation is like that times a hundred—even to the general population of EVE, they are seen as dishonorable scammers and griefers. It’s…
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EVE Online Patch Blocks An Exploit That Let Users Play In Chinese
If you play EVE Online with anyone from China, you may have noticed them becoming scarce recently. That’s because their ability to connect to the game’s main server in their native language has been removed. Now, granted, they were never supposed to be doing this at all; playing EVE on the worldwide server in Chinese…
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Hate Being Assassinated In EVE Online? Try The Newest Ship
Every fleet in EVE Online is only as good as the players leading it. But unlike real-life generals, the Fleet Commanders in EVE can’t sit safely on the sidelines giving orders; they’ve got to sit right in the middle of battle like everyone else. As you might imagine, this makes them primary targets. But a…
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EVE Exploiters Will Soon Face Harsher Punishments
EVE Online is under siege. The invasion isn’t masterminded by one of EVE’s infamous misanthropes or some grand armada worth hundreds of thousands of dollars— it’s an invasion of exploiters, botters and hackers. This time, instead of the players battling in space, CCP Games’ Security Team is on the front line. Since the Ascension expansion…
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EVE Players Are Poised For A Million-Dollar Battle
EVE Online has once again been plunged into a major battle—possibly its biggest one ever, depending on how it all goes. At around 3 PM Eastern today, Keepstar-class Citadel (the single largest object that can be owned by a player in EVE) held by the Pandemic Horde alliance has come under attack, and is poised…
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In A Universe of Backstabbers, These EVE Players Offer Support
Most stories told of EVE Online and its players are about deceit, subterfuge or betrayal; players who forsake everyday politeness to further their own in-game goals. But this is a story about the friendlier side of the EVE community, and a group called Broadcast 4 Reps, or B4R. It is not an in-game organization with…
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This Week’s EVE Expansion Adds Major Free-to-Play Features
When the Arms Race expansion for EVE Online drops tomorrow, players using the free-to-play option will be able to do a lot more in the game. The first time I ever logged into EVE, I found myself browsing the game’s ship tree, a massive visual layout of the nearly 200 ships that you could fly…
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