Tag Archives: MMO

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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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Well it was Bound To Happen Eventually

Someone got ganked carrying a large amount of PLEX. Amid the LOLs and accusations of idiocy, a question has arisen which needs to be clarified.

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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…

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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.

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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.” [...]

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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.

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What We’re Dealing With Here…

…Is a Failure to Communicate. You may have noticed that the Dev Blog Breakdown has been missing from these pages for the last couple of weeks, this is due to busyness with other things and the release of the CSM Summit minutes was foremost amongst these. Yesterday, however, we got a Dev Blog from the [...]

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What are CruchGear Doing interviewing CCP?

CruchGear, which describes itsefl as a blog covering gadgets, gear and computer hardware, has an interview with CCP’s Arnar Gylfason who is a senior producer on EVE Online. I find myself wondering why CrunchGear would be interested in an MMO, as it is neither a gadget, peice of gear or computer hardware. Read on for [...]

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