CCP has announced it’s shutting down Dust 514, its FPS set in the EVE Online universe, on May 30. The company is currently developing a follow-up, but unlike Dust 514, it’ll be PC-only.
As compensation for its "longest downtime in quite a while," EVE Online is giving active accounts 50,000 unallocated skill points. Trial accounts got an extra week. "If you hear of someone doing or planning something bad, even if it’s your friend, we do have the PLEX for snitches program," publisher CCP said.
EVE Online publisher CCP said in a statement that "at no time was customer data compromised or accessible," during a DDoS attack that brought down EVE and Dust 514 this weekend. "We will be looking at ways to compensate players in both EVE and DUST for the outage," CCP added.
EVE Online says it has taken down its Tranquility server cluster—housing the MMO itself and companion game Dust 514—because of "a significant and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack." Tranquility has been down for 16 hours. At this time, not even EVE's web site is reachable. Follow EVE's Twitter for more.
"It's Like EVE Online, With Guns!"
Jeff Miller is a 3D artist who works for CCP, the developers behind EVE Online and its FPS spinoff, Dust 514.
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Get Pumped For Large-Scale Warfare With This Dust 514 Open Beta Launch Trailer
I've been looking forward to getting my hands on CCP Game's upcoming MMOFPS, Dust 514, for a long while. Why? Well, it connects to EVE: Online in exciting ways, creating a persistent universe. The actions of one game can influence the other game, for instance. The potential for space drama is huge!
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"You are not alone!"
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Galan Pang works as an artist at CCP's Shanghai studio, where he's done some amazing stuff for upcoming shooter Dust 514.
EVE Online and Dust 514 are now linked together via EVE's Singularity test server. Watch out for the ISK black hole!
PlayStation Plus Members Can Now Shoot Things Dramatically In The Dust 514 Closed Beta
For those who didn't purchase access earlier, or get their names drawn from CCP's hat after signing up on the web, there's one last way to guarantee access to the Dust 514 closed beta. But it, too, will cost you some cash.
The End of the World Can be a Beautiful Thing
Or, at least, it is in this great piece of concept art for upcoming shooter Dust514, done by artist William Chen.
DUST 514 Gives PlayStation 3 Owners an Exciting New Way to Pay for Beta Access
The first beta event for CCP's free-to-play EVE Online tie-in for the PlayStation 3 kicks off this weekend. Players can enter for a chance to play in the beta event at the game's official website, or they can just drop $20 in the PlayStation Store.
DUST 514 Gets a Vita App, Beta Date, and No One Cares About PlayStation Home
Fans eager to touch start fighting free battles for their EVE Online masters get their chance during the June 29 DUST 514 premiere weekend event. The beta details drop along with new info on the DUST 514: Neocom Vita application and some PlayStation Home crap.
You Can Sign Up For Dust 514’s Beta Right Now
If you're not one of the lucky EVE Online players who own a PS3 and is already waging war in CCP's upcoming massive online shooter, then you can go ahead and sign up for the Dust 514 beta by going right here.
In Dust 514 PlayStation 3 Armies Will Do Jobs For PC Players, Until It's Time For a Double-Cross
Dust 514 is an upcoming free-to-play first-person-shooter on the PlayStation 3 that will connect to the massively-multiplayer online game Eve Online. This much we've known for several months, but pardon me for still having trouble processing how it's going to work.
You Guys Like Giant Robots, Space Pigs and Fighting Octopus, Right?
Concept artist Trevor Claxton has, in addition to working on projects like Magic the Gathering, also lent his talents to games such as Dust 514, EVE Online and Warhawk. If anyone's going to draw awesome mechanical killing machines, it's this guy.
Watch An MMO PC Gamer Shoot His Way Into an FPS Player's Console Game
The clip here is short, but incredibly cool.
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