Blogfest
October 30th, 2008, a team within CCP whose main focus is optimization of both hardware and code. This was followed by the Quarterly Economic Newsletter from our very own economist, DrEyjoG, examining the trends and changes within EVE’s dynamic market. But we’re not done yet! Last but not least we have a blog written by our CEO, [...]
Latest Eve Online patch does bad things to Windows – Guardian Unlimited
October 28th, 2008Dutch court imposes real-world punishment for virtual theft – Ars TechnicaWe know theft is against the law, and we know that when you download a song or a game without paying for it, there’s a good chance that it’s copyright infringement. But what about when you steal a virtual item? Dutch courts had an interesting [...]
Vale of the Silent Conflict Grows
October 26th, 2008Triumvirate. spokesman Sha’blach painted a grim picture (though one Triumvirate members seem to face with relish) of the forces arrayed against them. “[We face] pretty much the whole of the north as far alliances go. The only one we have not had here is IRON. They may be still licking their wounds [from their other [...]
EVE Online Hilmar Petursson Interview
October 25th, 2008MMORPG.com is featuring an interview with CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson. Focusing on business questions and the future of the company, here’s a snip: Beyond expansions we are told that in this coming summer, the dev team will be looking “aggressively” at the idea of story-based factional warfare that would see players be given PvE quests [...]
EVE Online: Black Mountain
October 22nd, 2008Black Mountain: Sounding the Horns of the Hunt has been posted at the official site. Here’s a portion of the story: Jonak and I were bringing our vessel back to home when we got the call. I had recently switched teams within the Sisters of EVE, joining the Sanctuary at long last, and the missions [...]
My node was equipped with the following…
October 16th, 2008, our database is able to keep up with the enormous I/O load that Tranquility generates. At peak hours, our database is processing over 2,000 transactions per second, which generates around 38,000 IOPS (input output operations per second) To keep up with this load, we currently have two RamSans. 1 x SOL Blade The EVE [...]
Why ghost training was disabled
October 14th, 2008EVE Online: “The War on the Impossible”, Part 2: Democracy Yesterday, we introduced the coming week of articles based on what we saw at EVE Online Fanfest and today we focus in on our first issue: The Council of Stellar Management. This is CCP’s attempt to bring “deliberative democracy” to EVE and in true CCP-fashion, [...]
The failure cascade – Guardian Unlimited
October 13th, 2008CCP’s Petursson: Economy, Council Bring Structure To EVE – GamasutraSpeaking as part of an in-depth Gamasutra report on EVE Online ‘s Fanfest held in Reykjavik, Iceland, CCP executive Hilmar P tursson has been discussing how the complex economy and new elected ‘Council of Stellar Management’ bring structure (and Source: www.gamasutra.com Bay Area lawmaker touted for [...]
Video: Yahtzee Zings EVE Online – Wired
October 12th, 2008The Social – CNET NewsLONDON– Britain’s normally gray capital was unusually sunny this week. So were the attitudes of Web developers gathered here for a conference while, across the pond, Wall Street was in full panic mode. A bright-eyed pack of several hundred aspiring Source: news.cnet.com
Review: Warhammer Online Lives Up to the Hype – Wired
October 10th, 2008EVE Online – Mac CentralMassively multiplayer online games sometimes called MMOGs or MMOs appear far too rarely on the Mac. Since 2004, World of Warcraft has pretty much dominated the MMOG scene. So it was exciting news early in 2007 when it was revealed that CCP Games Source: www.macworld.com