EVE Online is a community-driven massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, set in a world of galactic proportions. This online universe is governed by a hyper-capitalistic economy where space flight is the path to all commerce, communication, and conflict. Your mission is to establish yourself as a major competitor, trusted by your friends, feared by your enemies. To accomplish this, your principle tools -- apart from an impressive array of sophisticated equipment, customizable space ships and in-game corporations -- will be your natural business acumen, social skills, Machiavellian thinking and cunning combat strategies.

Set tens of thousands of years in the future, EVE Online is a breathtaking journey to the stars, to an immersive experience filled with adventure, riches, danger and glory. With nearly a quarter of a million subscribers worldwide inhabiting the same virtual universe, EVE features a vast player-run economy where your greatest asset is the starship, designed to accommodate your specific needs, skills and ambitions. EVE offers professions ranging from commodities trader to mercenary, industrial entrepreneur to pirate, mining engineer to battle fleet commander or any combination of these and much more. From brokering business deals to waging war, you will have access to a diverse array of sophisticated tools and interfaces to forge your own destiny in EVE.

CCP Games has announced the dates for its ‘First Strike’ live event for EVE Vanguard, the upcoming sandbox FPS module for EVE Online.

From midday UTC on December 7 to midday UTC on December 11, 2023, EVE Online players with an active Omega account will have the chance to join the pre-alpha playtest. Eager Omega subscribers will have the opportunity to access EVE Vanguard by selecting the Vanguard character profile in the EVE launcher once the event is live.

To learn more about the First Strike event for EVE Vanguard and to keep up to speed with the latest news and developments, visit and register here. Players interested in learning more about the benefits of an EVE Online Omega subscription can visit the official website.

Also today, CCP Games released a free patch for EVE Online following the launch of the Havoc expansion last week.

Highlights include:

• Lifted restrictions on EverMark trading, reinstating players’ in-game transaction freedoms.
• Dynamic, in-game music that adapts to the unfolding narratives of corruption and suppression.
• Quality of Life improvements for Corporation Projects.
• …and more!

In EVE Online: Havoc, the ruthless Angel Cartel and Guristas pirate factions will be recruiting Capsuleers to spread corruption on the frontlines by carrying out insurgencies aimed at disrupting the power struggle of the major empires locked in conflict across New Eden. These pirate factions have established a foothold in a new system, Zarzakh, which is operated and controlled by the Deathless, a new mysterious harbinger of chaos.

Players will need to make a choice: where do their allegiances lie? Will they defend tradition or wreak havoc in the warzone? By enlisting with pirate factions and corrupting star systems in insurgency zones, players will be rewarded and unlock access to special faction-aligned storefronts. Alternatively, those who seek to protect the empires will be able to engage in anti-pirate activity, stemming the flow of corruption and suppressing pirate efforts.

As part of Havoc, Corporation Projects are being substantially reworked and improved. Corporation Leaders will have more ways to streamline management and reward members for their efforts via new functionality, a new Corporation Project Manager role, and new project types covering a wider range of activities.

With formidable new ships - including the Angel Titan and new factional Battlecruisers and Destroyers - new customization options, enhancements that improve the experience for new players, and a series of quality-of-life updates, EVE Online: Havoc gives you more tools to play with in the ultimate sci-fi sandbox MMO experience.

EVE Online players also benefit from CCP Games’ newly announced Carbon Engine, which promises a number of robust technical and graphical improvements coming to EVE Online in the near future.

EVE Vanguard is an upcoming multiplayer FPS module for EVE Online being developed using Unreal Engine 5. In this dynamic and evolving shooter, players will take on the role of the Vanguard, a new generation of war clones fighting for their survival and to free their consciousness as they undertake hazardous contracts on the planets of New Eden.

In squads or solo, players will deploy onto the surface of planets wracked with turmoil and littered with opportunity. To advance their clone, suit and equipment, players will need to complete missions, acquire resources and engage in tactical combat with rival Vanguard squads as well as hostile forces, each with their own agenda. EVE Vanguard will be connected to EVE Online from day one, starting with Vanguard players being able to impact EVE Online through Frontline Corruption. Over time, new gameplay, content and interoperability with EVE Online will be added, deepening the immersion for players and the living universe of New Eden.

EVE Online is available for PC.