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EVE Online Theaters of War Exclusive Preview: 3 Expansions, 1 Universe of Conflict

The picture of EVE Online's next three expansions that is taking shape is exciting. From integrating Vanguard ground combat to completely overhauling the new player experience to fully realizing the big idea of military campaigns, it's tough to boil it down to a common theme. But when the hull hits the hyperlane, the outline speaks of a heavily mythologized, 23-year-old space MMO that isn't afraid to rethink the basics, push more ambitious systems, and extend a steady hand to everyone who's alwa

IGN / Ryan McCaffrey
Preview

EVE Online's Cradle of War expansion wants to make the space MMO more welcoming to new players, before killing them in galaxy-wide omniconflict

The effective onboarding of curious yet noncommitted first-time EVE Online players is a conundrum that developers Fenris Creations, formerly CCP Games, have been trying to solve for decades. Many are enticed by the MMORPG’s purely player-spun tales of espionage and military adventure, only to bounce off its dense hull of complex economic spacemaths and a sandbox occupied by oft-unpunished pirates and con artists. Perhaps the game’s next big expansion, Cradle of War, will have more luck when it l

Rock Paper Shotgun / James Archer
Announcement

EVE Online will be used to help train Google DeepMind's AI tech, as company take a minority stake in the former CCP Games

Spreadsheety and space piratey MMO Eve Online will help train Google DeepMind's AI models, after the tech giant took a minority stake in its creator. This partnership's come as developer CCP Games have gone independent after former owners Pearl Abyss sold the studio back to the original management, with the transition also having seen CCP rename themselves Fenris Creations.

Rock Paper Shotgun / Mark Warren
Business

After 23 years, CCP is about to do the unthinkable: add a non-PvP zone to EVE Online

"Getting more new players benefits New Eden as a whole."

PC Gamer / Rick Lane
Update

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Extraction shooter spinoff EVE Vanguard will let you salvage ships destroyed in EVE Online, then flog the parts back to their owners

EVE Vanguard, the latest attempt by Fenris 'I Can’t Believe It’s Not CCP Games' Creations at crafting a first-person shooter counterpart to EVE Online, continues to gestate within Iceland’s best-funded spinoff vats. Nearly three years after being revealed as a Shoot, Loot 'n' Scoot extraction game, it’s running its first alpha playtest – titled Operation Avalon – from July 7th-20th, with Fenris staff promising attendees of last week’s EVE FanFest event that it will dutifully tighten up the gunpl

Rock Paper Shotgun / James Archer
Announcement

EVE Online studio CCP Games turns independent and rebrands as Fenris Creations

Google DeepMind has also taken a minority stake in the Icelandic studio and will produce an offline version of EVE Online.

Game Developer / Chris Kerr
Business