Eve Online

CCP Games have shared a few more details about Project Awakening, a new game or at least, "survival experience" set in the Eve Online universe, which is getting a closed playtest from 21st May 2024. Project Awakening is a single-shard affair - that is, one in which all players inhabit the same world, rather than being split up across servers or instances. It's "built upon the principles of freedom, consequence, and mastery within a living universe", and "represents the next step in CCP Games' journey to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life", which, you know, wind your neck in.

EVE Online celebrates its 21st birthday this year, as its Capsuleer Day XXI celebrations continue to rage on throughout New Eden.

The open-world space RPG genre has found itself in the spotlight thanks to 's massive popularity. The Bethesda title has been likened to a game in space, and being from such a big name developer and the marketing push that it has had makes it easy to overlook other amazing games of a similar style that came before it. While has many unique characteristics that make it stand out, there are also lots of other games set in space that offer hours of enjoyment, each with its own distinctive qualities that could set itself up as a new favorite.

You could jump into a different New Eden inEVE Vanguard, the upcoming sci-fi sandbox FPS on the way, as CCP has announced more on the nextFirst Strike playtest, which begins tomorrow.

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EVE Online developer CCP Games has revealed more details about its upcoming "survival experience," Project Awakening, which has a playtest on the way soon. It's on the whole still very mysterious, with no in-game screenshots to indicate what it's actually meant to look like, but we do at least know a little bit more about its setting and concept.

The Strong National Museum of Play has announced the 12 games nominated in 2024 for the World Video Game Hall of Fame: Asteroids, Elite, Guitar Hero, Metroid, Myst, Neopets, Resident Evil, Tokimeki Memorial, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Ultima, and You Don’t Know Jack.

Change is in the air for capsuleers, as the old EVE Online launcher has been replaced by a brand new one in order to deepen the immersion. 

Heading into 2024, we knew of a couple of heavy hitter MMOs coming out with their next expansions. From Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail this summer, to World of Warcraft launching two expansions, one for each Classic and Retail, the year was already looking pretty meaty for MMO fans.

Since theFirst Strike event wrapped earlier this month for EVE Online's FPS module, EVE Vanguard, CCP Games has been crunching the data. Ahead of the holiday break, theteam laid out its early 2024 roadmap and talked about what they have learned from the first of many tests.

The latest Pulse video from the EVE Online team recaps the year that was 2023, its 20th anniversary year, all from the heart of Jita 4-4.

I started the year wanting to play more of The Lord of the Rings Online. Yet by the end of the year, it's been EVE Online that has been dominant in my MMO life during 2023. 

EVE Vanguard's fist test, First Strike, has come and gone, and CCP Games has revealed some interesting tidbits from the test, including the fact that over 100 thousand Vanguard clones were killed by other Vanguards.

EVE Vanguard's First Strike Event ended this week, with the team at CCP Games thanking fans for taking part in the first of what will be many play tests on the road to a full FPS launch. We also have an idea as to when the next one should take place: January 2024.

While everyone else is sipping eggnog and watching old Christmas movies for the millionth time (and no, Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie!), gamers around the world will be logging into their favorite MMO to slay all sorts of beasts and collect fantastic rewards. While some developers remain on the naughty list for another year, some of our favorite MMOs made the nice list by adding tons of new quests, challenges, and presents. 

There is a joke thatEVE Online is simply spreadsheets in space, so the joke came full circle when EVE announced it was adding in an Excel add-on last year at Fanfest. The circle continued this past weekend as it was one of the partners, and case study for the final round of the Microsoft Excel World Championships in Las Vegas.

EVE Online is gearing up for its next seasonal event, the Winter Nexus, which hits New Eden on December 5th. The event brings winter snowstorms to space (because video games), giving players a chance to earn SKINs, loot and more.

It’s no secret that EVE Online developer CCP Games has been expanding its projects in the EVE Universe. One of their upcoming games, Project Awakening, is a blockchain-based project entering its Plase II playtest next week, and the team is looking for new testers.

After its first chaotic week,EVE Online's Havoc expansion is living up to its name. From pirate insurgencies to seeing more players since Uprising released, Havoc is proving to be a jolt of adrenaline for New Eden.

As EVE Online was headed towards downtime last week in anticipation of its next expansion, Havoc , a player named Jay Amazingness, decided to wreak a little havoc of his own. Ahead of downtime, the longtime Goonswarm player decided to strike at the very heart of the alliance he has spent his EVE career within, pulling the clone bay from two structures in 1DQ and stealing pretty much anything that wasn’t nailed down — from cold, hard ISK to ships, including multiple Titans.

Back at EVE Fanfest, CCP Games officially unveiled its upcoming FPS module set in the EVE Universe,EVE Online: Vanguard. Now we know when players will get their hands on the FPS this year.

Betrayals and EVE Online are almost synonymous with each other twenty years into the MMO's operation, but a heist pulled off at the expense of one of the MMO's most powerful alliances hit a bit differently yesterday as Havoc launched.

EVE Online's second expansion of the year, Havoc, has launched this morning, bringing new ways to engage with factional warfare, new ships and more to the New Eden star cluster.

The Deathless Circle in EVE Online's upcoming expansion, Havoc, is angling to sow some chaos in New Eden, and the events earlier today are glimpse into that future as Guristas Pirates attacked a player structure this morning.

The latest Pearl Abyss financial report shows some bright spots, particularly in the case of the company reversing a slide and becoming profitable again.

EVE Online's latest in-universe news report, The Scope, sets the stage for some of the pirate chaos that is poised to descend upon New Eden as the latest expansion, Havoc, inches closer to release.

EVE Online is the subject of a new documentary by prolific YouTube documentarian Fredrick Knudsen. Known for his series «Down the Rabbit Hole,» Knudsen did just that when detailing the twenty-year history of EVE Online in a six-hour video.

EVE Online is gearing up for its upcoming expansion, Havoc, which launches on November 14th. Since its announcement at FanFest 2023 in Iceland earlier this Fall, the CCP Games team has been showcasing the various changes coming with Havoc, this time how they are building stronger organizations.

One of the best features in Bethesda's latest open-world game, Starfield, is the incredibly robust shipbuilder. One dedicated player decided to blend universes, bringing EVE Online's iconic Rifter into their game.

EVE Online's next expansion, Havoc, launches next month, and the team at CCP Games is pulling the veil back on one of its major features, explaining how working with New Eden's pirate factions will work.

EVE Online developer CCP Games is ramping up the narrative heading into November's Havoc expansion, and the team breaks down the design process behind the new Zarzakh region and the Deathless Circle at the center of the expansion.

EVE Online is coming off a successful Fanfest late last month, and the team at CCP Games have released a new Pulse video highlighting the ongoing activities in EVE leading up till next month's Havoc expansion.

As someone who fancies themselves a pirate in EVE Online, I was pretty stoked when I first heard about the changes and gameplay features coming to Havoc, the next expansion for the space-faring MMO. Pirate factions such as the Angel Cartel and Guristas are prominent NPC groups in New Eden, with ships from Angel Cartel making up some of my favorites in the MMO — the Machariel especially.

Monetization in gaming is, at times, seemingly out of control. From feeling nickel and dimed at every turn in some free-to-play titles to companies charging for head-start access and beta testing, it feels like there is no limit to the ways a major game company will try to get us to crack open our wallets.

At EVE Fanfest last week, I sat down with EVE Online game director Snorri Árnason for a wide-ranging chat about where the one-of-a-kind sandbox space MMO has been in recent years and where it's going. We talked about big things like Dust 514 and EVE Vanguard, with Árnason lamenting that if the former had been on PC «it would literally still be alive», but a smaller comment that also struck me as interesting was one in which Árnason expresses ambition to have football-style analysis of EVE's great battles.

It's happening again. As sure as Square Enix overestimating their sales projections, as sure as John Riccitiello pissing off every available customer, EVE Online developers CCP will try to make a first-person shooter set in the same universe.

As I walked into the main hall at EVE Fanfest 2023, prepped for the keynote announcements, the giant screen in the Laugardalshöll Arena was tuned into the Twitch stream of the MMO. In front of me was the giant Jovian stargate, tiny blips representing capsuleers eager to see what was happening in orbit around the structure.

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.

The EVE Online community is known for being opinionated, dedicated, and also for their various charity and science efforts over the years. CCP Games, as part of Fanfest, announced phase four of Project Discovery, the program that works with researchers to conduct citizen science and collect data that has helped inform science on COVID-19 and more.

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of «Playing the Edge.» Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today!

EVE Online shocked attendees by pulling the veil back on its upcoming FPS made by the London dev team. EVE Vanguard is a new PvPvE extraction shooter made in UE5 that will be integrated with EVE Online from day one.

EVE Online's second expansion of 2023, Havoc, goes live in November, continuing the story from August's Epiphany update. The new expansion allows players to team up with Pirate factions, Angel Cartel and Guristas, to corrupt the fabric of New Eden.

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.

How many hours have you put into Starfield ? 50? 100? More than you’re willing to admit? Starfield has been out for less than two weeks, and space captains everywhere are still exploring the galaxy for the best ships, new crew members, secret locales, and credits. Lots and lots of credits. Sooner or later, though, your budding privateer will become bigger than the galaxy around them. And when the boredom finally sets in, you will want something else to play. When that time finally comes — or right now if you are a PS5 owner — we have compiled a list of sci-fi games that can fill the empty void left behind in Starfield’s wake.

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.

Why do all spaceships have to be horizontal? Nevermind the practicality or anything like that, I want to explore space in something a little more vertical. A silo, a tower, perhaps. Or maybe even a ship that is just one very, very long ladder a la Snake.

In the neverending pursuit to build wacky Starfield ships, one player has created an homage to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater’s famous long ladder scene. In simpler terms, this Starfield player has an excessively long set of ladders in their ship. Come look. 

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.

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

Monopoly isn't the only game to tear apart friendships.

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.

Ever fancy yourself a space politician? Want to represent the interests of your playstyle and friends in all areas of New Eden? Well, the Council of Stellar Management has just opened applications for CSM 18, running now through August 15th.