In December, an anonymous forumite confessed to an ingenious gaming crime. In the spacefaring MMO "EVE Online," they claimed, they had found a process by which they could make highly sought-after goods out of thin air -- and with fellow gamers, exploited that process to make the equivalent of $145,000 in real money over four [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 27, 2009
An official "Eve Online" developer blog has revealed more details about the planned free expansion "Apocrypha" which aims to bring back the wondrous feeling of exploring uncharted space. Wormholes is the name of the game, as a vast amount -- thousands in fact -- of new solar systems, which may contain extra characters to interact [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 20, 2009
"EVE Online" is fairly successful. That we know. What we also know, is that "EVE's" developer, CCP, is hard at work on their next MMO, "World of Darkness," based on White Wolf's RPG universe. According to a supposed leaked CCP financial document, "World of Darkness" -- a game which has remained shrouded in mystery just like [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
"EVE" may have passed the 45,000 concurrent user mark this month, but there's a good chance they're alienating many of their players with the upcoming change to premium-only graphics. "EVE" is partly known for being forgiving when it comes to system specs. But with the release of March's "Apocrypha" expansion, the game will stop supporting [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
Shortly after celebrating their game's continuing growth, CCP announce the upcoming March release for what they dub the most ambitious Eve Online expansion yet, Apocrypha. Offering all-new areas, skills, and the versatile customisable "Tech 3" ships, which are able to fill any role, combative or not, fans of the unique space MMORPG are in for [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Long-time Eve Online players still remember the times they used to try and mass log-on, with both primary and alternate characters, in order to break the 10 or 15 thousands simultaneous users record. CCP's space MMORPG has come a long way since then, as yesterday saw the announcement of 45,186 simultaneous players. The emphasis is on [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
Massively has one hell of a massive story today. According to the confession of an anonymous forumite (via Winterblink), an exploit in persistent spacefaring MMO EVE Online has allowed an undisclosed number of players to harvest the real-world equivalent of approximately $150,000 over a four-year period -- and official statements by developer CCP today indicate [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The gaming web as a whole (but Dream Not Of Today in particular) is reporting that that the Python-based source code for the spacefaring persistent-world MMO EVE Online has been leaked via BitTorrent. CCP has released statements attesting to continued security, but parts of the MMO community beg to differ.
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 1, 2008
It's not just panels, strips, books and bindings at this year's New York Comic Con; video games are more than welcome, and those able to make a trek over to the Jacob K. Javits Center late this April will find them in spades.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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