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CCP Committed to Making World of Darkness an Impressive MMO Experience

The developers at CCP, the company best known for creating the unusual EVE Online MMO, have said that they plan to make their upcoming World of Darkness both a better and a more accessible game than their current big project. Speaking to MMO-oriented site Ten Ton Hammer, Hilmar Pétursson, who is the chief exe...

6 February 2012
21:21 GMT

Dust 514 Might Bring Micro-Transactions on the PS3 and the Vita

Sony and CCP are working together on the possibility of offering micro-transactions for the upcoming Dust 514 online shooter on both the PlayStation 3 home console and the Vita handheld.Hilmar Pétursson, the leader of CCP, told Develop, “We're having many meetings with Sony to ensure they have solid...

25 January 2012
10:32 GMT

Dust 514 Ready to Run on the PlayStation 4

Dust 514, the ambitious new shooter from EVE Online developers CCP, might be ready to launch in early 2012, but the development team working on it believes that the basic structure of the game allows it to work just as easily on a possible PlayStation 3 as it does on current hardware. Speaking to Develop, Hilmar P&e...

24 January 2012
22:21 GMT

EVE Online Plans Loyalty Program, Introduces Anti-Cheater Measures

The Council of Stellar Management, the player led advocacy group that advises developers CCP on the potential progress of their MMO EVE Online, has released information from the December discussions, showing how the game might change in the near future.The developers have stated that they are aiming to create new con...

19 January 2012
15:11 GMT

World of Darkness MMO Looks to Vampire: The Masquerade for Inspiration

World of Darkness is one of the MMO projects that CCP, the Nordic developer best known for EVE Online, have long thought about and have not pushed in development and one of the leading developers working on the game has said that one of the biggest inspirations for their project is the old cult classic Vampire: The M...

18 January 2012
15:11 GMT

EVE Online Players Can Sign Up For Dust 514 Closed Beta

CCP, the studio behind the massively successful EVE Online game, has confirmed that it’s now accepting entries into the upcoming closed beta stage for the new Dust 514 shooter, with potential participants needing to have an active EVE Online account if they want to try out the new PlayStation 3 exclusive.EVE On...

27 December 2011
17:11 GMT

EVE Online Senior Producer Steps Down

Arnar Gylfason, also known as CCP Zulu, has announced that he is stepping down as a senior producer of the MMO EVE Online and that he will focus in the future on creating a better organization inside the development team working on the game.His role will now be filled by Jon Lander, known as CCP Unifex, who has lead ...

23 December 2011
04:15 GMT

CCP Admits Failure of Incarna Expansion, Will Focus on Core Gamers

The tight knitted player community of EVE Online received the recent Incarna expansion badly and the developers acknowledge that in their quest to develop the MMO they forgot to listen closely to the needs of the base. Arnar Hrafn Gylfason, who is a senior producer working on EVE Online at CCP, told PC Gamers that,...

6 December 2011
02:32 GMT

Dust 514 Will Be the Deepest Shooter on Consoles

EVE Online has been having some issues lately, with the developers at CCP issuing an apology to players and detailing long term plans, but the company seems to be now focusing on launching its shooter Dust 514.Speaking to the United States official PlayStation Blog Brandon Laurino, who is the executive producer worki...

12 October 2011
13:31 GMT

CCP Announces Big Changes for EVE Online Come Winter

The developers at CCP working on the MMO EVE Online have talked about their future plans for the game while also apologizing for the issues that have affected the title and its long term fans during the recent months.Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, who is the Chief Executive Officer at CCP Games, has issued a letter ...

6 October 2011
10:24 GMT

Dust 514 Will Capture the Market for Persistent Shooters

EVE Online is one of the most interesting MMOs on the market at the moment, a game which deals in betrayal and real life plots just as much as it focuses on ship piloting and the acquisition of more ISK and the developers at CCP believes that the market is ready for a shooter that is built around the same principles....

26 September 2011
10:09 GMT

EVE Online MMO Comes to Japan with Full Localization

Video game developer CCP and Japanese company Nexon Co. have announced that they are working together to create a fully localized client for the space-based science fiction MMO EVE Online and to launch a Japanese version of it during the fall of this year. Full localization will mean that the entire game will be acc...

8 July 2011
03:20 GMT

EVE Online MMO Destiny Shaped by Player Input

EVE Online has always been one of the more complex and weird video games in the MMO space and the fact that players have a say in how the game is developed, via the elected CSM, has significantly changed how the title moves forward. John Turbefield, who works for the Research and Statistics division at CCP, talked...

29 June 2011
03:41 GMT

E3 2011: Dust 514 Announced by CCP for PS3, Ties into EVE Online on PC

Sony E3 2011 press conference was home to some really interesting announcements, chief among which being the new Dust 514 "persistent shooter" exclusive to the PlayStation 3 from CCP, the studio behind the massively successful EVE online PC MMORPG. Sony is trying to make its PlayStation 3 more accessible to multip...

8 June 2011
12:01 GMT

EVE Online Is Forever, CCP Is Aiming for More Immersion

EVE Online is one of the most complex MMOs on the market at the moment, but the development team at CCP, the Finish company which handles development, says that the new Incarna expansion will be specifically designed to allow new players to engage with the game in more familiar ways, at least at first. Arnar Gylfa...

21 April 2011
13:31 GMT

EVE Gets New Comer Friendly Commissioned Officer Edition

CCP, the independent developer behind the MMO EVE Online, has announced that it plans to launch a new retail package for the video games, called the EVE Online: Commissioned Officer Edition, designed specifically to allow new comers to get into the game, which is seen as newbie unfriendly because its complex mechanic...

18 October 2010
03:27 GMT

Alcohol Consumption Eases Rheumatoid Arthritis

Who would've thought that consuming alcohol would be beneficiary for health problems? A study carried out by a team at the University of Sheffield, UK, published online today in the journal Rheumatology confirmed that alcohol consumption reduces the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis.This is the first time ...

28 July 2010
04:39 GMT

EVE Online Publisher CCP Opens Up UK Studio for Dust 514

CCP has announced the creation of a new UK studio from the ashes of Midway Newcastle. The team will be known as CCP Newcastle and is led by developers that were formerly employed by Midway until its bankruptcy. Most Midway properties were bought by Warner Brothers, but the Northern UK team was left out of the deal. C...

30 June 2010
08:01 GMT

EVE Online: Tyrannis Has Been Launched

EVE Online: Tyrannis was launched this week on Steam for both the PC and Mac, marking the first release for both platforms at the same time for Valve's digital distribution platform. This new expansion for the CCP space massively multiplayer online role-playing game lets the players descend on planets, construct...

27 May 2010
03:40 GMT

Electronic Arts Considering an Atlanta Studio

It seems that Electronic Arts is in the process of looking for a place for a new development studio and a location in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the front runners, with initial estimates saying that up to 300 people could be working in the city in 2010. California is no longer attractive as a location for core develo...

4 January 2010
03:24 GMT

EVE Online Is Six Years Old

Yesterday was cause for celebration for CCP, the developer of EVE Online, hence the cake pictured in the image attached to this article. On May 6, the MMO celebrated its sixth birthday.EVE is the most interesting MMO that a gamer can jump in at the moment. World of Warcraft might be extremely popular but arguably onl...

7 May 2009
05:18 GMT

Full Features List Revealed for EVE Online: Apocrypha

CCP, the developer and publisher of EVE Online, has just revealed all the features that would be introduced in the upcoming expansion of the game, called Apocrypha. This is the tenth free expansion for EVE Online and it will introduce sweeping changes to the space in which the game is played.The biggest additions are...

27 February 2009
05:13 GMT

EVE Online Prepares to Become Apocrypha

CCP, the Icelandic company that develops and maintains the space based MMO EVE Online, has announced that it plans to launch the tenth free expansion for the videogame on March 10, just as a partnership between the studio and publisher Atari would result in the official release of the first boxed copy of EVE availabl...

9 January 2009
03:48 GMT

EVE Online Registers Record Number of Concurrent Players

CCP, the developers and operators of EVE Online, the space based MMO, are saying that the game has set a new record, registering 45,186 concurrent users on its single shard server, which is set to contain the entire game world in only one instance. When CCP offered the most recent data, the game had more than 240,000...

6 January 2009
12:11 GMT

EVE Developer Might Be Forced to Leave Iceland

We live in some very troubled times, and with the economy suffering from a grave recession we're bound to see some companies go out of business. Even though quite a lot of people, either analysts or representatives from companies like Blizzard or Microsoft, have said that the gaming industry is virtually recessi...

29 December 2008
03:04 GMT

CCP Reacts to EVE Online Exploit

We've talked about the exploits related to mining and refining in EVE Online, the MMO created and maintained by Icelandic developers CCP. It seems that a bug, which can be traced back to 2004, was used by a select group of players to basically manufacture resources out of thin air. The resources were in turn eit...

22 December 2008
17:11 GMT

EVE Online Mining and Refining Exploit Uncovered

How long can an exploit in a videogame, especially a MMO, be hidden from sight? No one thought the answer could be a resounding “four years” but it appears that in EVE Online, the space based MMO created by CCP, some of the largest alliances in the game have been creating in game currency out of thin air ...

17 December 2008
17:51 GMT

CCP Unveils New EVE Expansion

CCP, the people who created and support EVE Online, have announced some features regarding the biggest yet expansion for the MMO, which is supposed to be launched on March 10, 2009. Some of them will be very appealing to those interested in the vast space based MMO.The highlights are the introduction of new modular s...

11 November 2008
04:39 GMT

Quantum Rise Coming for EVE Online

CCP is announcing that it plans to release a new expansion for its EVE Online MMO. It will be called Quantum Rise, it will be free and will add a lot of features related to the way the game should handle its complicated economical aspect.Quantum Rise is very much concerned with the economy, just as much as the previo...

16 October 2008
04:49 GMT

EVE Online Focuses on Economics

EVE Online creators are not content with coming up with maybe the most cerebral MMO on the market; they plan on making it even more taxing on our poor little gaming brains. The developers working for CCP, which created and is now publishing the game, are interested in adding new players to the economi...

1 September 2008
08:21 GMT

Real Life Politicians Could Learn from EVE Online

The Council of Stellar Management is in session. The elections in EVE Online's democratic experiment have taken place and nine representatives of the various factions of the MMO have been elected to serve the Council. As CCP - the creators of EVE - promised, they flew to Reykjavik to meet the developers and make...

8 July 2008
18:16 GMT

EVE Online Enters the Empyrean Age

CCP is announcing that EVE Online, its long running space faring MMO, is getting a new expansion, the eighth for anyone who's still counting. It's called the Empyrean Age and it sets the stage for a conflict like EVE has never seen before. All the tensions that exist between the four major political players...

12 June 2008
10:25 GMT

CCP Talks Eve Online Source Code Leak

Yesterday we reported that the source code of the popular MMO game Eve Online was leaked to a torrent website, following one user's attempt to prove to the developers at CCP that the security of the game itself is not good enough. Today, a CCP rep talked about the problem and explained why this leak can not affe...

16 April 2008
13:06 GMT

EVE Slams Real Money Trading

Almost all MMOs that gain sufficient popularity with the gamer base have to deal, at one point, with the appearance of Real Money Trading or RTM. The idea is that someone makes money in-game, mainly through activities that are borderline or even outright banned by the creators, and then he resells the in-game money h...

10 April 2008
16:06 GMT

The EVE of Democracy

CCP, the Icelandic publisher of MMOG EVE Online, has recently decided that players all over the world, active in the game, will be able to elect a nine-man Council of Stellar Management, with a mandate from the player population to talk directly with the producers of the game on matters relating to game changes, play...

6 March 2008
02:40 GMT

CCP Rolls Out Fix for 'EVE Online Trinity' Issues

Just days ago, CCP was confirming the launch date for EVE Online's free, next-gen graphical expansion in light of reaching a 200,000 subscriber milestone. Everyone playing CCP's popular MMORPG has surely downloaded the free expansion, but not all have had a very satisfying EVE Online experience afterwards. ...

7 December 2007
05:23 GMT

CCP Dates EVE Online: Trinity. Reaches 200,000 Players Landmark

It's official MMORPG fans, CCP has just dated the long awaited EVE Online: Trinity expansion for a December 5th release, this year. The expansion doesn't include new quests, or classes (not that the popular MMO needed any), but actually features a next-generation graphics engine. The best part about this ex...

30 November 2007
04:20 GMT

EVE Online Gets Next-Gen-Looking Expansion - Trinity

CCP developers of EVE Online have just confirmed an upcoming expansion of their MMO game entitled Trinity and featuring a next-generation graphics engine. But even though the expansion clearly enhances the visual experience of the game the great array of content additions is actually what every EVE Online gamer is wa...

17 October 2007
05:03 GMT

PC - EVE TV Has Launched!

CCP, creators of EVE Online have recently agreed with MMM Publishing (the producers of the game's official magazine, E-ON) to launch EVE TV, a weekly on-demand Internet TV broadcast dedicated to the virtual universe of EVE Online. Basically, it'll provide fans with everything they need to know about their f...

26 June 2007
03:43 GMT

EVE Online - Players Favoured by CCP Employees

Stuff like this just makes you want to throw your computer out the window. If you're an EVE fan, then you've surely had your ups and downs with the game, but mostly downs. Just as one scandal is put to rest, another emerges. This time: favoured players by CCP employees.This open letter, posted by ex EVE Pla...

26 May 2007
08:23 GMT


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