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Filmed last year at Fanfest 2022, a new documentary chronicling the making of EVE Online by The Escapist, is now live. The documentary takes viewers through the early years of the MMO's development, with interviews from developers chronicling the history.

CCP Games has revealed that you can finally get what you’ve been asking for over the MMO’s 20-year history and align with pirates in the new Eve Online expansion, Havoc. The Angel Cartel and Guristas pirate factions will recruit Capsuleers in Eve Online Havoc to help them spread corruption.

In a surprise announcement at Eve Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland, CCP Games has announced its brand-new standalone FPS game, Eve Vanguard. Being developed using Unreal Engine 5, the shooter will see players take on the role of the Vanguard for the first time ever, and will be available separately to the main Eve Online experience.

The incredibly popular space MMO will be receiving a new expansion later this year, entitled , a followup to the Uprising and Viridian expansions. Over the course of two decades the game has released over 20 expansions for players to explore things like new areas, factions, and mechanics. The Havoc expansion announcement is one of many to come out of EVE Fanfest 2023, an annual (usually) event that returns to Reykjavík, Iceland this year, home of EVE developer CCP Games, where the title is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

CCP Games has unveiled their new FPS project,, at EVE Fanfest 2023.

CCP Games is taking another stab at making a first-person shooter set in New Eden, the universe of . They will not give up.

What does , the biggest space game ever, and have in common? Both are celebrating their 20th anniversaries this year and both are in Iceland right now for EVE Fanfest 2023!

Ahead of this weekend's EVE Fanfest 2023, CCP Games has brought its name finder tool back online, letting players find their character names on the revamped Worlds within a World monument in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The time to start planning your end-of-year travel is now—if you want to get the best prices, that is. After a few years of severe ups and downs in the travel industry, many problems are working themselves out and airfare is dropping, especially on travel between the US and Europe.

Starfield was comfortably No.1 across Europe during its launch week, GSD data shows.

Meta has started rolling out its Meta Quest v57 update for its Quest virtual reality headsets. The update brings a range of new features and upgrades for Quest users such as unsending image messages, horizon feed, and more. But one of the most important feature upgrades to come from the update is an improvement to the avatar creator, as the company adds better customization options for users to fine-tune their appearance. Users will now be able to do a bunch of customization previously not possible such as adding highlights to hair, using a slider to pick a specific base hair color, and even choosing the color of your eyebrows. This was a feature many had asked for in the past and Meta has finally delivered.

This holiday season, Hellboy is taking a trip to Iceland to meet one of the island nation's most eccentric and interesting mythical figures, the Yule Cat. The story will take place in 2023's aptly named Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat, which carries on Dark Horse Comics' tradition of releasing a new Hellboy special every holiday season.

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Have you ever heard of words like generative AI, GPT, or LLM? Well, now they're in the dictionary! Dictionary.com, which is a website that helps you understand the meanings of words, has decided to add these new words to its collection. The people at Dictionary.com have been working hard to keep up with our ever-changing language. So, they just added 566 new words and 348 new definitions for the fall of 2023. They say it's important to do this to make sure their dictionary is useful and up-to-date.

Auroras, commonly known as Northern Lights, are a rare sky phenomenon that result in stunning streaks of colourful light in the sky near the polar regions. However, there are instances where these flashing lights have also appeared across the world, especially if the solar storm that causes them is of strong intensity. Recently, people on a flight to Europe bore witness to a mesmerizing aurora that was snapped by a user, and the social media post has gone viral since then.

The latest update to EVE Online's universe, a narrative event titled 'Epiphany,' will see its players hunt for hidden stargates around New Eden, all leading up to the reveal of the next expansion.

11.6 million console and PC games were sold in July across Europe, up 34% over the same period in 2022.

EVE Online is getting a board game, bringing New Eden's internet spaceships to the tabletop.

Eve Online, the famously complex spacefaring MMO, is being adapted into a board game. Iceland-based CCP Games has partnered with Titan Forge, a publisher known for its catalog of extraordinary miniatures, to bring Eve The Board Game to Kickstarter this fall. Polygon has your first look at the project — and its potent fleet of pint-sized plastic starships.

In recent conversations with fellow MMO fanatics, we always seem to come around to lamenting how the genre has reached something of an evolutionary dead end in the mainstream. With World of Warcraft leading the way to nowhere, the style of the developer-curated world we often refer to as a "theme park"-style game has struggled to do anything truly new since Blizzard's powerhouse came to dominate the scene in 2004. It's an entrenched set of conventions that rely on heavy phasing and instancing, limiting how much a massively multiplayer online game can take advantage of being, well, massive, multiplayer, and online.

The European Commission has given Belgium the go-ahead to bolster its game industry by creating a tax shelter.

A Football Manager 2023 player has broken the world record for the longest ever campaign with a game lasting 500 virtual years.