PlayStation

Sign Up For Dust 514′s Beta… If You Play EVE

We’ve shown you armor, weapons and vehicles from Dust 514, the persistent online shooter from the makers of EVE Online. Now, a select few will finally be able to get their hands on the game and how all those elements feel.


December 20, 2011
News

Say Hello To Your Dust 514 Wardrobe

Dust 514′s the latest video game in a long line to try to re-envision armed conflict in a sci-fi future. So far, the developers at CCP have given us peeks at the game’s vehicles and their maybe-too-powerful-to-even-shoot weapons. Today brings a look at the dropsuit armour that warriors in the online shooter will be sporting. CCP describes the dropsuits’ variations like so:


December 9, 2011
PlayStation

Dust 514′s Weapons Are So Lethal You Could Die Firing Them

There are so many things I love about Eve Online, but almost all of it can be traced back to the game’s mystique. I guess that’s what I love most about Eve Online; I haven’t played it.


December 8, 2011
News

How Fan Revolt In EVE Online Gave Birth To Its Latest Expansion

2011′s been a year of unexpected protests. We’ve had the Arab Spring reconfiguring the political map of various Muslim governments and the Occupy movements calling for financial reform. This summer, a video-game equivalent happened on the servers of CCP’s cult sci-fi MMO EVE Online.


November 17, 2011
PC

Ship Spinning Triumphantly Returns To EVE Online November 29

Your long struggle is now over, EVE Online players, as CCP gears up for the November 29 release of its 15th free expansion, Crucible, returning your beloved spaceships to spinning in stations status following a brief period of madness.


October 29, 2011
PC

How DUST 514 And EVE Online Bridge The Gap Between PC And PlayStation 3

In CCP’s DUST 514 for the PlayStation 3, battles are initiated by corporations in the PC-based space MMO EVE Online. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, CCP server architect Lin Luo talks about how much fun making that work is.


October 20, 2011
News

Eve Online Developers CCP Laying Off 120 People

Best known for the massive online game Eve Online, Icelandic company CCP has been steadily ascending its profile over the last few years, as they moved from that ambitious sci-fi virtual world to other projects like Dust 514, the in-development, PS3-exclusive shooter that ties into their MMO and new franchise World of Darkness.


October 14, 2011
PC

EVE Apostates Receive A Deep Fiasco-Inspired Discount

Last week, the game’s CEO prostrated himself before the mercy of the community last week; this week, EVE Online declared it is offering deep discounts to those whose subscriptions to the sci-fi MMO lapsed before or during the unpleasantness of the summer.


October 6, 2011
PC

EVE Online Boss Grovels For Forgiveness After A Summer Of Fiascoes

Wracked by boneheaded decisions involving game expansions and the sale of virtual goods, EVE Online’s community has been in an uproar for several months. The outrage was so loud that the game’s publisher has prostrated himself begging forgiveness, with a 1,500-word self-flagellating unconditional apology.


September 21, 2011
PC

The World Of Darkness MMO Flirts With Permanent Death

In the World of Darkness series of pen-and-paper role-playing games, when your character dies there’s no coming back. According to a panel run by the developers at last weekend’s Grand Masquerade, permadeath will carry over to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game as well.