Category Archives: CCP

If you still haven’t succumbed to the temptation of dribbling away 50 trillion hours learning how to be a pretend spaceman in EVE Online, maybe the CCP MMO’s sparkly new website will push you over the edge. No? What about a nice new video aimed at helping you navigate the notoriously mental first few hours of starship pilotdom? Possibly? Watch it below. Then get your ass to Mars, or whatever.

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CCP will include support for keyboard and mouse controls for Dust 514, according to a report on Dust514Base. Official confirmation came in a tweet from CCP executive producer Brandon Laurino. The PS3 EVE MMOFPS spin-off launches this year on PSN, although no exact timeline has been given.

Thanks, Joystiq.

CCP CEO Hilmar Pétursson and David Reid, incumbent chief of marketing operations, have reassuringly said that despite recent shake-ups within the firm, it is still committed to making the MMO World of Darkness, and the duo promised it will be “much more accessible than the EVE universe” for those who are not into science fiction.

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CCP isn’t worried about the possibility of a new hardware cycle – it’ll just adapt its PlayStation 3 exclusive DUST 514 to new tech.

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The next EVE Online update drops next week, and addresses a number of small annoyances.

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Yes, it’s true – we’re so desperate for a look at EVE Online tie-in shooter Dust 514 that we’re willing to get excited over half a minute of future.

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EVE Online’s player advocate group, the Council of Stellar Management, has released the minutes of its December meeting with CCP, revealing a number of interesting snippets about the MMOs ongoing development and management.

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Trion Worlds SVP of publishing, David Reid, has left the firm to take a position with EVE Online developer CCP as the firm’s chief marketing officer. According to Reid, the opportunity to join the firm was “one of those opportunities that only comes your way once in a lifetime.” Before joining Trion, Reid was president of publishing at NCsoft West. At CCP, Reid will be in charge of marketing for EVE Online, DUST 514 and the upcoming MMO, World Of Darkness. Thanks, GI.biz.

World of Darkness producer Chris McDonough has said Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is a major influence on CCP’s upcoming MMO.

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CCP has announced that closed beta sign-ups for DUST 514 have gone live and for the moment, registration is exclusive to EVE Online players. While access to the beta, called Mordu’s Private Trials, isn’t guaranteed for every EVE player who registers, those who sign-up will be put into a “pool of participants” and if chosen, will be allowed entry into early testing and special events for DUST 514. The PS3 MMOFPS is slated for release in the spring.

EVE Online senior producer Arnar “CCP Zulu” Gylfason has announced he is stepping down in order to implement a “better and more efficient organization”.

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CCP has opened ticket sales for EVE Online Fanfest 2012, which takes place on March 22-24 at the Harpa Conference Center in Reykjavík, Iceland. A special early bird pricing deal will run until January 31 to secure your entry for $100, after which you’ll be asked to cough up $125. This year’s event boasts the usual announcements and presentations from developers; competitions; tournaments; parties; pub crawls; Iceland tourist tours you can purchase with PLEX; and exclusive access to DUST 514, including new info, playable demos and a beta key. Visit the event’s website for more information.

Thanks, Massively.

CCP has released another update on the PS Blog pertaining to DUST 514, and it focuses on the game’s infantry weapons where as previous entries provided information on the shooter’s Rapid Deployment Vehicles.

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EVE Online’s disastrously unpopular expansion Incarna failed because it didn’t address the needs of current players, the company believes.

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CCP has released a launch video for EVE Online’s Crucible update. The video, as mentioned in the title of this post, contains actual in-game footage of real-life EVE Online players going about their business in the MMO. It also provides a look at the new captain’s quarters and battlecruisers. Crucible is a free expansion, and launched yesterday.

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The latest EVE Online dev diary has a look at CCP’s engineering group, which is currently working on the space MMO’s Crucible update. CCP Atlus is there promising the team is killing off problems people have been “griping about for years.” Details are also given on alterations to font sizes and bookmark functionality. We bring the news.

It’s after the break. Crucible’s out tomorrow at zero cost to you.

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A new developer diary looking into EVE Online’s customer support team claims CCP has got responding to support requests down to a fine art.

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EVE’s server architect, Lin Luo has said the team is working hard to make sure the servers being “hosted around the globe” for DUST 514 are fully optimized and ready for anything players can throw at them.

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CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson has said the firm lost a connection with its community when earlier this year it “forced [changes] upon” EVE Online players and removed features the fanbase “cared a lot about.”

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Speaking to Develop, CCP’s VP of business development Thor Gunnarsson has claimed Dust 514 will expand the horizons of the PS3 and that this can only be a good thing, “It would be a risk not to make Dust. It would be a risk to think that everything will work if we sit still,” he said.

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