Fanfest
Analysis
Do CCP Care? They do if you’re new.
And yes, umm, we are announcing big content updates for fan fest. It’s the largest one probably we have ever done.” CCP Paragon – Q&A Session. Two weeks ago, we were treated to a Q&A session with CCP Paragon, who…
Editorial
Blockchain and EVE—Greed’s Still Good
On April 11, CCP released a ‘news’ article entitled ‘Blockchain and EVE Online’. In the article—with a ‘CCP Hellmar’ byline—CCP has finally attempted to address some of their customers’ concerns about many of the statements CEO Hilmar Pétursson has made…
Devblog
Battleships Are Back!
CCP announced the Road to Fanfest 2022 Update during a live twitch event with CCP Rattati, CCP Burger, CCP Swift and Carneros. The hour long stream covered a variety of topics gradually building up to announcements on battleships, compression, reversal…
Breaking News
Breaking: Fanfest 2022 announced
CCP have announced today that Fanfest 2022 will be held from May 6 to 7 in Laugardalshöll arena. The announcement comes after three years without the annual player gathering in Iceland. Fanfest was first split up into multiple smaller events…
Op-Ed
With Mutaplasmids, CCP is Playing a “Dangerous” Game
The biggest shake-up in the history of Frontier’s “Elite Dangerous” was the introduction of engineering with the Horizons update. This system allowed players to take materials, which were collected via various game activities but were unavailable from markets, and spend…
Eve Online
EVE Fanfest: Structures
Header art by Smultar On the third and final day of FanFest 2018, CCP Fozzie gave us information on upcoming changes and advancements to the structure systems in game, as well as details about the upcoming outpost and conquerable changeover…
Devblog
DevBlog: Fanfest 2018 MegaBlog Information Station
On April 5, CCP Falcon posted a comprehensive blog about Fanfest 2018, which is occurring on April 12 to 14. While this information comes to us later than usual this year, it is filled with both the expected goodies and…
Eve Online
Diplomacy: Agents of Change
This is part three of a five-part series examining diplomacy in EVE Online. The previous two releases were War of Words and Best of Enemies. You can also see the individual interviews with FCs, diplos, and alliance leaders here. This…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
77: On Accountability
At this year’s Fanfest Alliance Panel, I drank myself into a stupor and said something I deeply regret. After sobering up and discovering what I had said, I did my best to apologize to the player I insulted. I made…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
60: Deconstructing Fanfest
Reykjavik is a surreal binge, drowned in alcohol, broken glass, and – during Fanfest – thousands of socially awkward spaceship nerds, shouldering through the narrow streets and bumping into the ubiquitous sleek blonde eurotrash. It’s been a year and a…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
29: Partying the Right Way at Fanfest
As I write this, Serious Gaming Journalists are rushing to scoop each other about the Dust 514 announcements and various changes to EVE gameplay uncovered at Fanfest 2009. In about a week we’ll be able to link to interviews, EVE-TV…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
28: Irresponsible Speculation Edition
I bash this out on the verge of my red-eye flight to the land of ‘people who eat rotten shark and make spaceship games’ for the 2009 EVE Fanfest – my first time attending the event. One goon helpfully offered…
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