Author Archives: Mandrill
Dev Blog Breakdown – Bumper Fun Edition
So after a week of awesome, with a Dev Blog every day, I would seem to have my work cut out for me breaking them all down. Some very interesting topics in the blogs, after a eerie silence in the wake of That Zulu Blog. Technical and complicated stuff ahead, I take no responsibility for [...]
DUST has March 2011 release date?
It would seem that Tony Gonzales, author of The Empyrian Age, has been hard at work on a Dust tie in. According to Amazon.com the book is due out in March next year. This neatly dovetails with fanfest, does it also mean that Dust itself will be making an appearnace around this time? If you [...]
After All That…
After the rage inducing forum post requesting our votes It would seem that EVE Online: Tyrannis has won the Best European Online Game. Just goes to show that pretty much no-one reads the forums.
The EVE Blogs OPML Archive
You may remember that I put the active OPML update on hold some time ago while I looked for a way to automate sorting through all the blogs for the and producing lists of the active, semi-active, and archived blogs. Until that point I was slogging through it manually every month and it was taking [...]
Lots of Pale BLue Dots – Epilogue
This is just a short addendum to my series about PI, detailing my Production planet and the finalised logistics chain. Read on for the details…
Why Long Term Players Are Important to EVE
EVE is an MMO like no other. A single shard and deep economic simulation are two of the most commonly cited reasons, but there is another.
Hilmar Speaks at CGDC
Hilmar Petursson, CEO of CCP, will be giving the keynote at the Chinese Game Developers Conference which runs from July 30th to August 1st. The Talk will be titled ‘Dare to be Different’ and will cover CCP’s history as well as (according to the EVE Online Newsletter) “… the never-revealed grand picture for CCP’s future.” [...]
Crowdsourcing Low-Sec Solutions
Do you want to make low-sec matter? Fed up with your idea dropping off the front page of the Features and Ideas Forum like shit off a shovel? Maybe you should take a look at this.
Lots of Pale Blue Dots – Part 4
So we come to the final part in my series of posts about Planetary Interaction, the new feature that was added to EVE in the Tyrannis expansion.
