EVE Online is a sprawling sci-fi MMO where players build persistent economies and wage territorial wars across a player-driven sandbox. The game runs on Carbon, an open-source engine framework that the studio recently made fully available to developers.
Recent months have seen the game wrestling with longstanding balance issues and community friction. Fenris Creations - formerly CCP Games - banned nearly 5,000 accounts for fraud, botting, and real-money trading in a continuing enforcement push. More substantially, the developer is working to address competitive imbalance, planning to scale back force projection mechanics and adjust player-built jump bridges in a September update aimed at giving smaller corporations a fighting chance against entrenched mega-guilds that have accumulated power over the game's two-decade lifespan. Meanwhile, EVE Vanguard, an in-development extraction shooter spinoff, ran a concurrent Operation Avalon event with the main game, though that crossover experiment appears to have concluded. Moderation controversies and streamer drama have also occupied player discourse recently.
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It would seem that Fenris Creations wants to assault fans of its EVE Online franchise with all of the videos and dev blogs all at once. Luckily, we’re here to provide a drag net to capture the internet spaceship fishies and haul them aboard for you to process. Trust the MOP Fishe…
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Tomorrow, Fenris Creations is putting a real cow in charge of EVE Online and livestreaming the whole thing on Twitch.
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Today, FC CapitalCowPilot, took Capsuleers on an adventure of a lifetime.
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Fenris Creations fka CCP Games really made EVE Online look its age today with a new blog that discusses the company’s ongoing initiative to futureproof the game, as the studio says EVE is built on “a codebase older than some of you.” “Underneath every gate jump, market order, and…
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Our next guest for In the Hot Seat has spent more than two decades at the helm of one of Iceland’s best-known game studios - through changing markets, changing ambitions and now, a changing name. Hilmar Veigar Pétursson joined the Icelandic studio, then called CCP Games, as CTO i…
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EVE Online is going through something. From massive battles to community drama, the world of New Eden feels on fire - and it's not all good.
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If you’re on the outside looking in at EVE Online, you might be thrown off by the sandbox’s HUD. Sure, it’s appropriately sci-fi tech-y, but maybe all of those half-circles and pips at the center don’t immediately convey what’s going on. This will evidently be a main focus for Fe…
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Hey, who’s ready for some weekend online drama for dinner? Then belly on up to the EVE Online buffet because one of its developers and a livestreamer who has hitched his online personality to the sandbox have riled up the wider playerbase over some arguably goofed-up moderation b…
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A month ago, Fenris Creations fka CCP Games launched Operation Avalon, an event that bound EVE Online players up with EVE Vanguard testers in a massive galactic quest. The event is over now, but Fenris has resurfaced with a recap to tell us how it all went from the studio’s persp…
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Players of EVE Online already know that September is bringing some changes to the sandbox with an eye on making sure that smaller orgs can compete with the long-established megaguilds, and one of those efforts is tied to the Ansiblex jump bridge, a player-built structure that bas…
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It’s exceedingly tough to be a new kid — or a new corp — on the block in EVE Online these days, as nearly a quarter-century of live service has led to many established mega-corps squeezing out the competition. CCP penned a new dev blog talking about the problem with how these cor…
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EVE Online is for nerds, EVE Vanguard is for the jocks.
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Earlier this month, EVE Online banned almost 5000 people for fraud, botting, hacking, or RMT. You know, given how seriously CCP Games takes this stuff and how many people it’s actioned, you’d think these guys would stop. But they never do! And this is just the beginning of the re…
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When CCP Games/Fenris Creations launched EVE Vanguard’s Operation Avalon open alpha yesterday, we mostly considered it through the lens of the in-development MMOFPS rather than through EVE Online itself. However, the OG MMORPG is also running a concurrent event that ties into the…
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Carbon is the technology behind the sci-fi MMO's sprawling persistent universe.