As CCP Games further expands from its space MMO property and looks for new talents, we catch up with senior talent acquisition specialist Marina Dogg Pledel Jonsdottir to learn more about the perks available at the Icelandic firm
Read More »CCP will use EVE Online to help in search for new planets
With the hunt for a new Earth very much the fashion right now, Icelandic developer CCP has announced that EVE Online players will soon be able to do their bit. Yesterday NASA announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting dwarf star Trappist-1, around 40 light years from Earth. The …
Read More »CCP Games outlaw EVE Online gambling and real money trading sites
Changes to EULA prohibit buying and selling in-game items
Read More »CCP cracks down on Eve Online gambling sites
The company behind Eve Online is latest firm to go on the attack against video game gambling sites. In a post on its development blog, CCP said it was making changes to Eve Online’s End User License Agreement (EULA), specifically the section about buying items and object. The firm has …
Read More »CCP’s Hilmar Veigar Pétursson explains the company’s London move
The UK games industry can be contrary at the best of times and right now, in the face of Brexit uncertainty, it’s contradicting even the most optimistic of analysts. The vote to leave the EU saw some countries threaten to pull support from Britain. It saw the pound plunge, share …
Read More »Eve Online makers CCP and Six developer Gram Games open new UK offices
Yet another major games company is opening a development studio in London. CCP has joined Endemol and Gram Games by launching a new outfit in the English capital. The Eve Online maker is also moving its senior management team to the city. However, CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Ptursson says its …
Read More »CCP takes EVE Online free-to-play after 13 years
Subscription tier will be maintained, with paying users granted uninhibited skill progression and faster levelling-up
Read More »EVE Online makes free-to-play switch
CCP’s popular MMO space sim EVE Online is dropping its compulsory subscription fees. The developer describes the move as one of the biggest changes to the EVE universe ever, exponentially and aggressively fuelling the boundless potential of EVE’s greatest game content – its players”. From November players will be split …
Read More »The Eve of a new CCP: CEO Hilmar Pétursson on how the studio turned itself around
Three years on from a major shake-up spurred by falling financials, cancelled projects and layoffs, Eve Online developer CCP has posted record profit numbers and is helping to lead the VR revolution. CEO Hilmar Pétursson reveals how the studio reversed its fortunes – and what comes next
Read More »PS3 shooter Dust 514 going offline
Developer CCP has said that it is calling time on online PS3’s EVE-themed shooter Dust 514. In its place will arrive an in-development and untitled PC project that will build on what the defunct shooter tried to offer. Dust 514 will be shut down on May 30th. We are very …
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