When EVE Onlineās Chinese version relaunches in Q4 of 2018, rulebreakers may find themselves facing a type of punitive action that goes way beyond banningāthey might end up in a virtual prison labor camp.
The latest all-out EVE Online war has come to an end, and thereās a clear winner and loser. The Guardians of the Galaxy coalition has agreed to surrender a vast amount of in-game assets to its foes The Imperium in exchange for a cessation of hostilities.
Pearl Abyss, the Korea-based developer behind Black Desert Online, will purchase EVE Online publisher CCP Games, the companies announced today. CCP Games will ācontinue to operate independently,ā according to a press release, as well as contributing its publishing and development experience to Pearl Abyssā projects.
In EVE Online, size matters. Players covet its massive capital ships, which can cost the equivalent of hundreds or thousands of dollars. The MMO is known for massive battles, with fleets of hundreds of individual players all duking it out in space. But thereās one tiny ship that really punches above its weight class,ā¦
EVE Online always does things a bit differently than most games, and it would seem that this trend extends to iās Game Masters, the CCP employees who run the gameās day-to-day support, administration, and rules enforcement. Over the last week, EVE Online has been celebrating that GM Team, including letting them notā¦
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 to work to make sure they are in the rightā¦
On the opening day of EVE Onlineās annual Alliance Tournament, one team used a clever bluff to secure its first win.
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. ā¦ Doomchinchilla?
Over the past week, the overwhelming majority of EVE Onlineās player run coalitions have begun to band together and field some of the most powerful fleets that the game has ever seen. The gameās galaxy map is split along its North-South axis, with each side attempting to drive a vanguard strike deep into the heart ofā¦
EVE Online factions have been at each othersā 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 āVile Ratā Smith, who lost his life in the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi.
Players suspect that the election results for EVE Onlineās 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.
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 excitedāand many EVE Online players a bit perturbed.
EVE Online players have been officially invited to dive Into the Abyss. The gameās 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.
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 yearās candidates has a background that might uniquely prepare him to serve.
āI love reading stories about EVE, but I just canāt get into the game.ā Thatās 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 bookā¦
Last week, two EVE Online players chose to share their lifeās happiest moments with the community at EVE Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland, where they were joined in holy matrimony by the Space Pope.
EVE Onlineās annual FanFest event is in full swing in Reykjavik, Iceland, hometown of publisher CCP Games. This yearās event marks the 15th anniversary of EVE Online, and CCP took the opportunity to detail the gameās 37th free expansion, Into the Abyss, during a keynote presentation today. It also delivered updates onā¦
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 gameāperhaps a little bit before the gameās publisher wanted them to.
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 hundredāeven to the general population of EVE, they are seen as dishonorable scammers andā¦
If you play EVE Online with anyone from China, you may have noticed them becoming scarce recently. Thatās because their ability to connect to the gameās 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 Chineseā¦
