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Fan-Run EVE Online Tournament Canceled After Community Team Layoffs
Layoffs at EVE Online publisher CCP Games weren’t supposed to affect players, but they have led to the cancellation of a popular fan tournament. The Anger Games, a player-organized tournament with a massive pile of in-game credits at stake for the winners, was supposed to have its third annual run last weekend. Set up in…
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This Month’s EVE Expansion Makes Big Changes To ‘Moon Goo’
“He who controls the Spice controls the universe.” Okay, Spice doesn’t exist in EVE Online, but just the same, rare minerals do play a big part in the ebb and flow of the game’s universe. EVE’s new Lifeblood expansion promises to make some major changes to that flow, in the hopes of giving players more…
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EVE Online Free Players Are About To Get A Lot More Stuff
Soon, EVE Online’s free-to-play players will be allowed to expand their spaceship repertoires. CCP Games is more than quadrupling the amount of ships that F2P players are able to fly, still for the low, low price of free. Added last year, the free-to-play mode lets players be active in the EVE universe gratis, albeit with…
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Player-Created Cemetery Honors Fallen EVE Online Friends
Not everything in EVE Online is dedicated to death, destruction and betrayal. A few landmarks are dedicated to calm, quiet reflection. There’s the boneyard of B-R5BR, where permanent wrecks of destroyed Titans drift through space, placed there by CCP Games to commemorate the largest video game battle in history. And the EVE Gate, an enormous…
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How EVE Players Pulled Off The Biggest Betrayal In Its History
EVE Online is infamous for its scammers, pirates, and ne’er-do-wells, but this week all their scams were put to shame. A member of the game’s Council of Stellar Management and head diplomat of the Circle of Two alliance named The Judge stole all of the holdings of the 4,000-person alliance for himself. He took their…
By Lee Yancy