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“It’s Like EVE Online, With Guns!”

Luke Plunkett 21 May 2013 7:30 PM

Jeff Miller is a 3D artist who works for CCP, the developers behind EVE Online and its FPS spinoff, Dust 514.

9 May 2013

3000 Players Celebrate 10 Years Of EVE Online In One Epic Battle

Gergo Vas 9 May 2013 11:30 AM

In a testament to the player-driven nature of EVE Online, special events developer CCP introduced to celebrate the space MMO’s 10th anniversary paled before the spectacle of 3000 players forming an impromptu shipswarm to take down one of the biggest ships in the game.

4 May 2013

10 Years On, It’s Still Very Possible To Ravage EVE Online’s Economy

Logan Booker 4 May 2013 12:30 PM

EVE Online is one of the granddads of the massively-multiplayer genre. Yet, even with a decade’s worth of love and attention under its belt, all it takes is one intelligent player to take a feature under its wing and heartlessly break it.

28 April 2013

EVE Online’s Second Decade Collector’s Box Might Get Me To Play Again

Mike Fahey 28 April 2013 7:00 PM

It’s hard to believe that EVE Online has been running for a decade. Even more impressively, the game’s been growing steadily over the past 10 years, picking up refugees from stale fantasy worlds and showing them what the universe has to offer. I’ve been struggling to find a hopping on point for years. Perhaps September’s EVE: The Second Decade Collector’s Edition will do the trick.

Coming Soon To The Small Screen: EVE: The TV Show

Owen Good 28 April 2013 1:00 PM

EVE Online is getting a television series, thanks to a partnership between the MMO’s publisher and an Icelandic filmmaker, and it will take its inspiration from the stories EVE players left on a website honouring the game’s first decade.

26 April 2013

In Real Life

The Amazing Life Of Sean Smith, The Masterful Eve Gamer Slain In Libya

Stephen Totilo 26 April 2013 1:00 PM

The headlines around the world about Sean Smith last year were mostly about how he left this Earth. But this is a story about what he did while he was here. This is a story about Sean Smith’s life — about what he did in the so-called “real” world and what he did in a virtual galaxy where he was a Machiavellian legend.

28 January 2013

This Video Shows You What A 2800-Player Battle Looks Like In EVE Online

Owen Good 28 January 2013 9:00 AM

This morning, Reddit user Itsatrapski posted several images of a major battle — like 2,800 players — raging in the space MMO EVE Online today. YouTube user deusxverra followed with this video capture of the battle, described as terribly one-sided, so you can get an idea of what this conflict looks like in real time.

17 January 2013

What EVE Online’s Players Look Like Away From The Computer

Luke Plunkett 17 January 2013 11:30 AM

You might think, given the game’s abundance of politics and griefing on an intergalactic scale, that the kind of people who play EVE Online are complete psychos. Well, you’re only half right.

2 October 2012

It’s Not Just EVE Online’s Screenshots That Are Gorgeous

Luke Plunkett 2 October 2012 9:30 PM

Icelandic artist Borkur Eiriksson works at CCP, the custodians of the EVE franchise. Featured in today’s gallery, then, will be images from both EVE and its shooter spin-off, Dust514, along with the World of Darkness RPG, with the usual mix of personal work thrown in as well.

16 September 2012

Here Is EVE’s In-World Memorial To Its Slain Diplomat

Owen Good 16 September 2012 8:00 AM

As has been written before, Sean Smith of the U.S. State Department also was a deeply committed presence inside the world of EVE Online, as well as outside it, serving on the unique Council of Stellar Management, a governing body elected by its peers and convened in the real world. Smith was killed Tuesday in an attack on the American mission in Libya.

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