by Rainier on Oct. 3, 2007 @ 6:11 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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CCP Games, known for their MMORPG Eve Online, announced the expansion of its US operations by opening a North American headquarters in Stone Mountain, GA., with the grand opening party at its new office on Friday, October 12, 2007.
by Rainier on Sept. 11, 2007 @ 3:37 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Research by
Strategy Analytics reveals that the rapidly expanding MMO market is blazing the way for electronic sell-through and digital distribution of both PC and console games, and will by 2011 account for 30% of the games industry's revenue, which is expected to triple in the next 5 years.
by Rainier on Aug. 31, 2007 @ 12:53 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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EVE Online is an MMO game set in a world of galactic proportions, 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. Later this year CCP is planning a graphical overhaul, see how it'll look like ...
by Rainier on June 14, 2007 @ 3:05 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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CCP today announced that its seventh, and free, expansion, EVE Online: Revelations II, will launch on Tuesday, June 19th. Revelations II adds many new fixes, tweaks and features, such as a protected zone for newcommers to the game, improved management and plenty more...
by Rainier on March 7, 2007 @ 1:01 a.m. PST | Filed under
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CCP Games announced the integration of voice communication into leading Sci-Fi MMOG EVE Online. Players will now be able to speak to each other for better coordination, negotiation, socializing and planning, adding a new dimension to the game.
by Rainier on Feb. 13, 2007 @ 2:48 a.m. PST | Filed under
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SOE celebrates the fourth anniversary of EQOA with treasured gifts and special in game quests for all adventurers! Rejoice in the fourth year of the EQOA adventure by claiming your anniversary present today. Characters, level 15 and over, can claim an Anniversary Certificate, which will allow a second reset of their path abilities.
by Rainier on Nov. 30, 2006 @ 3:05 p.m. PST | Filed under
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CCP announced that its free EVE Online: Revelations expansion was successfully released on the massive Tranquility super-computer cluster, adding new regions, ship rigs, additional locations, encounters, and the usual optimizations and improvements.
by Rainier on Nov. 11, 2006 @ 11:36 a.m. PST | Filed under
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CCP, known for Eve Online, and White Wolf Publishing, known for various tabletop RPG franchises, announced that the companies have signed an agreement to merge. The new company will publish strategy guides, enhanced collectable card games, role-playing systems, and novels based on EVE Online, while development on a new MMORPG, World of Darkness, is already underway.
by Rainier on Sept. 21, 2006 @ 3:01 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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SparkForge Entertainment announced its formation, stating that it will create games and platform technologies for a new category it called “Massively Scalable Online Games.”
by Rainier on Sept. 11, 2006 @ 3:40 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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CCP Games announced today the largest supercomputer cluster in the history of the gaming industry for its MMO EVE Online. The upgraded server cluster features dual-processor 64-bit AMD Opteron-based IBM BladeCenter LS20 blade servers, as well additional enhancements to the clusters internet backbone.
by Rainier on June 13, 2006 @ 11:52 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The first day of EVE Online's open Beta in China resulted in a new world record for the number of simultaneous users playing in the same game world, as more than 30,000 users logged into the game server just hours after opening, and over 200,000 players from China registered for the game during the first day of the open Beta.
by Judy on May 11, 2006 @ 1:09 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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The upcoming expansion to EVE Online—codenamed Kali—will introduce an innovative Advanced Reactive Content System (ARCS), in which the political landscape and physical borders of nation-states within the game can be altered dynamically through the collective outcome of player actions, thus directly controlling the game universe destiny and resulting storyline.
by Rainier on Feb. 7, 2006 @ 9:05 a.m. PST | Filed under
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CCP Games today announced that EVE Online has reached 100,000 active game subscribers and is maintaining the robust subscription growth trend of the past year.
by Rainier on Dec. 14, 2005 @ 1:59 a.m. PST | Filed under
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CCP's free Red Moon Rising expansion will be deployed on Wednesday, 14 December. At 2000 GMT, Tranquility will be taken down. Due to the size of this deployment, we are estimating the update will take approximately 24 hours. In Red Moon Rising players will see new ships and features in Red Moon Rising created explicitly to augment warfare, boosting the adrenaline rush of action-packed PVP.
by Rainier on Nov. 18, 2005 @ 9:09 a.m. PST | Filed under
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CCP Games today announced the public release of EVE Online: Red Moon Rising", a new expansion to its highly successful and fast-growing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) "EVE OnlineĀ®: Exodus". Red Moon Rising is scheduled for release this December, and will be provided to subscribers free of charge.
by Rainier on Sept. 22, 2005 @ 6:05 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Independent developer and publisher CCP Games announced today that since the launch of 'EVE Online: Cold War Edition' the game has surpassed the 15,000 peak concurrent user record and smashed through the 70,000 active subscriber mark. This is a remarkable milestone for EVE Online considering the industry-wide decrease in MMOG subscriber numbers due to the impact of big-name entries into the genre.
by Rainier on Aug. 10, 2005 @ 2:30 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Buena Vista Games Senior Producer Robert Coshland has left the Disney games division to start up studio Republik Games, Inc. as CEO. The new company is already at work on a soon-to-be-announced online dating game and a related web community.
by Rainier on July 14, 2005 @ 9:06 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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CCP today announced the highly successful and smooth launch of EVE Online: Cold War Edition, a massive content upgrade to its popular massively multiplayer title EVE Online. The launch of EVE Online: Cold War Edition signifies yet another huge milestone for the ambitious developer, being met with critical acclaim.
by Rainier on June 29, 2005 @ 8:16 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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CCP Games today announced "EVE Online: Cold War Edition," a new massive content upgrade to its Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game "EVE Online: Exodus." The "Cold War Edition" is scheduled to be released the first week of July, and in the tradition of CCP Games, will be provided to subscribers free of charge.
by Judy on May 19, 2005 @ 1:00 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Mythic Entertainment today announced that they have secured the exclusive worldwide rights to create massively multiplayer online games for PC and console set in the fantasy world of Warhammer, created by Nottingham, UK-based Games Workshop Group PLC. The first game based upon the dark, medieval world of Warhammer will be released on PC in 2007.
by Rainier on March 22, 2005 @ 12:15 a.m. PST | Filed under
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The Bloodline Chronicles takes you deep into the mysterious caverns beneath Nektulos Forest to investigate the source of strange happenings in the land of Norrath. Battle the denizens of the underworld to discover the dark secrets of the Tombs of Night - and enter, if you dare, the Crypt of T'Haen to confront the legendary lost lord of the undead. Content in The Bloodline Chronicles is geared towards level 30-45 players, however all players will be given access to one zone, The Tombs of Night, whether or not they choose to purchase the Adventure Pack.
by Judy on Nov. 23, 2004 @ 12:05 p.m. PST | Filed under
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CCP announced today that its free EVE Online expansion pack 'Exodus' is
now available for download. 'EVE Online: Exodus' contains new tools that allow powerful players to manage very large political structures like alliances, which can contain thousands of players each. By formalizing the gathering of player corporations into player alliances, along with tools sets to allow these massive entities to control territory, the current underlying power structures will be more visible to players.
by Judy on Nov. 23, 2004 @ 11:43 a.m. PST | Filed under
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The town of Stormhaven and the Chiktar and Slith Tar hives are the next areas that adventurers will be needed to assist in fighting the famine. Evil eye dominators have been spotted around these areas every few hours when their regenerative powers are the strongest, commanding the now enslaved chiktar and slith tar races to begin an all out assault on Tunaria. Read more for details ...
by Judy on Nov. 3, 2004 @ 9:11 a.m. PST | Filed under
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CCP, the developer and publisher of the massively multiplayer online game EVE Online, today announced that its highly anticipated EVE Online: Exodus expansion will be released worldwide on November the 17 th, 2004. Read more for details and ingame footage trailer...
by Judy on Sept. 15, 2004 @ 1:28 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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CCP announced today that EVE Online has broken through the 50,000 active subscriber barrier, which translates into a 45% growth since the beginning of the year. EVE Online is a open-ended MMOG set in a world of galactic magnitude, governed by a hyper-capitalistic economy.