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  • Eve players stage giant online space battle

    07/29/2013 6:21:09 AM PDT · by 1rudeboy · 121 replies
    BBC ^ | 29. July 2013
    One of the largest video game space battles ever seen has taken place in the Eve Online game. For five hours on 28 July about 4,000 players took part in the epic battle between two of the game's biggest alliances.The two sides were fighting for control of resources within several of the game's solar systems. Time was slowed down in the virtual universe to help servers cope with the huge numbers of players and ships.The battle pitted spaceships belonging to CFC against those from the Test Alliance in a region of space known as 6VDT. It ended in victory for...
  • A Virtual Bank With Real-World Woes

    06/17/2009 6:02:29 AM PDT · by 1rudeboy · 3 replies · 252+ views
    The New York Times ^ | June 15, 2009 | Rob Cox
    Uh-oh! Another big bank is the subject of a depositor run amid charges its chairman has run off with customers’ money. Thankfully, this scandal is taking place in Eve Online, a space-age virtual reality created by CCP, a games developer and Iceland’s coolest company. But these troubles in the ether may offer some valuable lessons for earthly banking and regulation. Eve is one of the more successful multiplayer online games. Some 300,000 people — as it happens, nearly equal to the population of Iceland — pay $15 a month to navigate characters that pilot intergalactic spaceships, manufacture and trade goods,...