Hilmar Pétursson

Hilmar Pétursson headlines

• DUST 514: nothing preventing PC, Xbox ports

  There’s no reason why CCP couldn’t bring PlayStation 3 exclusive shooter DUST 514 to other platforms – except that it doesn’t want to.

  6 years ago

• EVE Online at 10: CCP on the next decade of Tranquility

  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.

  7 years ago

• CCP to "open up" beta testing for Dust 514 in April

  CCP has said it will “open up” the beta test for Dust 514 in April. The news was provided to GameTrailers during an interview at GDC.

  8 years ago

• Dust 514 may come to PC after all

  CCP has hinted that PlayStation 3 exclusive EVE Online tie-in DUST 514 may come to PC eventually.

  8 years ago

• World of Darkness' "kick ass core team" is AAA sized

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

  8 years ago

• CCP: Dust 514 fills a need for "intuitive, familiar, speedier" EVE Online

  CCP recognises that not everyone wants to sign their life over to EVE Online, and that’s where DUST 514 comes in.

  8 years ago

• CCP: "No shortage of commitment" to making World of Darkness "awesome"

  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.

  8 years ago

• DUST 514 will support PS3 cross-play with future Sony consoles

  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.

  8 years ago

• CCP felt initial backlash over EVE Online changes was "just some noise in the channel"

  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.”

  8 years ago

• CCP to continue work on World of Darkness at a "much slower pace"

  CCP’s spate of layoffs haven’t shelved new MMO World of Darkness, but the developer has acknowledged it was “spread too thin” with three major games on the go.

  8 years ago

• CCP trademarks Dust 514

  EVE developer and publisher CCP’s trademarked Dust 514, as reported by MMOsite. What is it? Probably the first-person game company boss Hilmar Petursson’s heavily tipped to announce at GDCE the week after next in Cologne. Hit the link for more. We’ll know soon enough. Thanks, Jim.

  10 years ago

• EVE Online's Hilmar Pètursson to keynote GDC Europe, show new title

  CCP’s Hilmar Pètursson will be one of the keynote speakers at GDC Europe in August. The CEO’s speech is titled “CCP: Winning the War”, which discusses the company’s success stemming from near obscurity to producing one of the largest MMOs out there, EVE Online. “GDC Europe is gearing up to be one of the industry’s […]

  11 years ago

• Silent Hill chap to speak at Nordic Game

  Siren and Silent Hill developer Keiichiro Toyama is to speak at Nordic Game 2008, the conference confirmed this morning, as will Tameem Antoniades, co-founder of Ninja Theory. The programme’s starting to look pretty good, in truth. Jet Set Radio Future guy Ryuuta Ueda, EVE Online boss Hilmar Pétursson and Age of Conan’s Jørgen Tharaldsen will […]

  12 years ago