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EVE Online turns ten today. VG247′s Dave Cook speaks with Hilmar Pétursson and David Reid about the next decade of CCP Games’ ambitious MMO.

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DUST 514 and EVE Online’s worlds are going to be combined slowly, so as not to throw a monkey wrench into their respective virtual economy’s, says CCP.

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Upstart eSports champion League of Legends is partly responsible for CCP taking DUST 514 free to play.

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CCP has given eye-popping hints that Dust 514 could support PlayStation Vita as a controller.

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CCP said during its EVE Fanfest event that it’s in talks with Gaikai and OnLive regarding cloud releases of EVE Online. The firm also reiterated, once again, it is still in the pre-production phase for its World of Darkness MMO, and there isn’t a release timeframe for it just yet.

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Despite staff layoffs and a slowdown of development, CCP is still fielding a full development team for World of Darkness.

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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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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.

Trion Worlds’ SVP of publishing David Reid has said that Rift’s sell-through to consumers hit almost 1 million units during the game’s first three months live.

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Loads of stuff happened this week with MMOs. Bethesda laughed off an Elder Scrolls MMO, APB started the Beta application process, Aion released pretty trailers, Star Wars will be playable at GamesCom and all other sorts of interesting things happened.

What we didn’t tell you about was that Lord of the Rings Online got some new jewelry and bounty quests in Esteldin, Funcom will announce Conan stuff at PAX, and there were some rumored leaks on the upcoming WoW expansion posted all over God’s green earth.

For all of this and more, read on past the break.

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After announcing job losses in Brighton and Austin last week, NCsoft exec David Reid says the Austin is “critically important” to the company’s future.

“We really do believe that Austin is going to grow at a fairly dramatic pace over the next few years,” said Reid, with a nod in the direction of upcoming MMO Aion: The Tower of Eternity.

Hopefully the news will go some way in placating the Austin team in light of the recent cutbacks.

More over at Joystiq.

By Mike Bowden

Kotaku’s spoken to David Reid, the new president of publishing of NC West, who’s put some confirmation on the state of Tabula Rasa and job cuts at NCsoft in the US and Europe.

Reid said that Tabula Rasa is not being dropped. He also said that 58 position at NCsoft in Brighton have been marked as potential redundancies, but no final decision’s been made yet.

Confirmed, though, are 12 job losses from the firm’s Austin branch.

There’s plenty more through there about NCsoft planning to focus on big scale MMOs instead of lighter online games. Good plan.