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Today the Citadel expansion has come to EVE Online, ushering in the biggest changes ever to player control over space. The inventive pilots of gaming’s most intriguing sci-fi sandbox game can now build staggeringly massive structures and then tear them down with imposing fleets of enormous starships. The delicate balances of power will break and new ones arise, unleashing havoc and spawning future conflicts across the universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bjTrPutt4k

Over 60 thousand players are currently facing off on two major, universe-spanning sides in the emergence of what is the next great war in EVE Online. It has already produced two major battles, causing amazing drama within the community and a virtual tsunami of player-created propaganda as well.

CCP Games today announced that EVE: Valkyrie™, the highly anticipated virtual reality (VR) multiplayer dogfighting shooter that Wired.com celebrated as “a soaring example of VR as the future of gaming,” and Gunjack™, the visually stunning VR arcade shooter, have launched on the Oculus Rift platform on PC. Both games were created specifically for VR and build upon CCP’s leadership position in the coming VR revolution, as well as demonstrate the company’s commitment to creating immersive virtual worlds for players around the globe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TmMIGOevis

CCP Games, in cooperation with the Human Protein Atlas, MMOS (Massively Multiplayer Online Science), and students from Reykjavik University, has brought the ability to contribute to real-world scientific research to the gaming sphere in a fitting and scalable way within the perfect setting for such an effort—the thousands of solar systems of the massive universe of New Eden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXHV2MMZmQw

Skill Trading is a new option for EVE Online players to use Skill Extractors to remove accrued skillpoints from one character in order to create an item called a Skill Injector. That Skill Injector can then be traded to another character--typically for in-game currency via the markets of EVE--and used to apply a pool of skillpoints to the second character, boosting whatever skill levels they want to apply the skill points to.

Today brought the largest release for EVE Online in 2015, which includes an evolution of EVE’s epic sci-fi storyline. Named after a new and engaging series of events happening throughout the New Eden universe, Operation Frostline sets the stage for the massive Spring 2016 EVE Online: Citadel expansion, which will reconstruct the very foundations of the famous sci-fi universe and transform the sandbox game design it is built on. The deadly mercenary faction known as Mordu’s Legion, having recently liberated Outer Ring Excavations (ORE) stations, now calls on pilots across the universe to raid the Serpentis Corporation’s vaults and pillage their valuable troves of implants, blueprints, PLEX, SKINs, and more before they can get their defenses back online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8SA1RMHcEc

CCP Games, a leading independent game developer, today announced it has hired Maria Sayans as its Chief Customer Officer (CCO), a newly created position. In her role of CCO, Sayans will focus on the company’s total relationship with its customers, overseeing CCP’s Marketing, Sales, Web Development, and Customer Services teams in Reykjavik, Shanghai, Atlanta, and Newcastle.

Today the Parallax release came to EVE Online, including several key changes to the sovereignty system that governs control and warfare, defense, and control in player-controlled lawless solar systems beyond the reach of EVE’s four major Empires.Some of gaming’s most compelling player stories have sprung out of the complex machinations of EVE Online’s nullsec sovereignty gameplay, including the devious Guiding Hand Social Club assassination, the staggering Bloodbath of B-R5RB, the near-instant fall of the implacable Band of Brothers Alliance at the hands of a traitor, and many more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG-5CQeelaI

Let’s begin with a poem shall we? How about an infamous nursery rhyme that sends chills down the spine of youngsters across the Amarr Empire? It seems appropriate given the Crimson Harvest started today throughout the 66 regions, 7,900 known solar systems, and thousands of wormholes of New Eden, the universe of EVE.

EVE Online players have had plenty to talk about this past weekend following a late Friday video message from Executive Producer Andie “CCP Seagull” Nordgren that announced a huge set of features planned between now and a nearly spring EVE expansion that will be focused on Capital Ships and Citadels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=oFc4jQghYDk

As EVE Online’s Galatea release went live today, New Eden is still reeling from one of the most dramatic events in its rich history. Just last week the leader of the Amarr Empire, the controversial Empress Jamyl Sarum I, was confirmed assassinated at the hands of the mysterious Drifters following several major standoffs between the Amarr Navy and the powerful wormhole-dwelling forces. Here is an early video news report from just after the attack by The Scope. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46aRYr0IZi0

CCP Games today announced the upcoming release of Gunjack™, a visually stunning virtual reality (VR) arcade shooter for the Samsung Gear VR platform that is set in the sprawling EVE science fiction universe. Built from the ground up for VR using the next-generation Unreal Engine 4 graphics engine, Gunjack delivers fast-paced and fully immersive action in a gorgeous panoramic sci-fi setting. Gunjackwill be available with the official launch of the Samsung Gear VR platform.

Some of gaming’s most compelling player stories have sprung out of the complex machinations of EVE Online’s nullsec sovereignty gameplay, including the devious Guiding Hand Social Club assassination, the staggering Bloodbath of B-R5RB, the near-instant fall of the implacable Band of Brothers Alliance at the hands of a traitor, and many more. These legends are born in the imaginations of the most complex, intricate opponents available—human beings—and are carried out by the strength of the real relationships of EVE pilots around the world as they build their own metaphorical sandcastles and work to knock down those of their enemies.

CCP Games has made available tickets and travel packages for the twelfth EVE Fanfest, including flight, hotel, and car rental deals for loyal fans of the games set in its sci-fi universe. Those who already have purchased event tickets should head straight to http://fanfest.eveonline.com/ to plan the rest of their trip.

Today Carnyx was deployed as the first half of EVE Online’s “Summer of Sov.” In June and July, EVE’s stars will alight with glorious spaceship explosions thanks to dramatic improvements in the way player alliances capture, hold, and defend space in EVE. Next month’s Aegis release will complete the overhaul of EVE’s Sovereignty design, the system with which alliances, ranging in size from hundreds to tens of thousands of players, battle over the riches of the vast, lawless nullsec regions surrounding the core of New Eden’s Empire space.