EVE Online fans will be pleased to note that the latest EVE novel, The Burning Life by Hjalti Danielsson is now on UK shelves and will hit the US market on March 30th. Grab a preview of the book below:

“You died not when you expired, but when your life was neatly packed away.”

 

That’s at the start of the novel. Actually, a lot of people die very soon after, and not very neatly, either.

The EVE Online team has announced an alpha stress test of EVE Gate, which will be introduced with Singularity. Grab the details of the event below:

On March 23, we will announce access to a public stress test version of EVE Gate which will be connected to Singularity for all of you to log into and look around. What is critical for everyone to understand is that the intent of this test is to stress the underlying hardware and key architectural components. This will allow us to identify and address bottlenecks and weaknesses well before launch and to make sure we have adequate hardware in place for all the pounding you folks will put on it once you are all browsing EVE Gate routinely from work (when your boss isn’t looking). We will be watching your comments closely for feedback as well as closely logging and monitoring the behavior of the software and hardware under load. You can help us out greatly just by logging in, browsing around and trying the application out.

The Star Trek Online team has released a new fact sheet for the upcoming content expansion, Season 1: Common Ground. Read on to find out about the big changes in store and the nifty perks for lifetime subscribers.

Season 1: Common Ground Fact Sheet

 

Our latest content update, Season 1: Common Ground, is releasing shortly. Here’s just a bit of the updates we have headed players’ way.

Lifetime Subscriber Perks

We’ve put together a special thank you package for our Lifetime subscribers:

• Classified Access Codes – A free C-store item.
• The Captain’s Table – A special social area exclusive to Lifetime subscribers, available to both Federation and Klingon captains.
• Special In-Game Title – “Career Officers” are those who’ve joined Starfleet or the KDF for the long haul.

PVP Updates

• Wargames – Federation players can now participate in PvP against one another to better prepare for the dangers of the battlefield.

The Atlantica Online team has launched a new browser application called “Conduit” that will allow players to log in and play the game at any time while online. Check it out!

Ndoors Creates Powerful Browser App with the Conduit Platform

Conduit Helps Global MMORPG Innovator Improve Engagement and Time Spent in Game

San Francisco – March 11, 2010 -Ndoors Interactive, a leading publisher of online games world-wide, has partnered with Conduit, the company enabling publishers to distribute their offering directly and through its global network of publishers, to create a custom browser app and community toolbar integrated with Ndoors’ popular, massively-multiplayer online combat game, Atlantica Online.

 The latest game master blog at the Star Trek Online site deals with a host of issues that confront both GMs and players. This time, Destra discusses, among other stuff, griefing and restoring items. Check it out!

Griefing

How do we deal with griefing?

 

Players who are found griefing accrue account penalties in the same form they would if they were found harassing another player. However, it’s not always black and white. We look at a few factors to determine if someone is truly at fault.

 The latest EVE Online developer blog is a great treatise about upcoming changes in the works for the Tyrannis expansion to allow players to have interaction with -all- planets in game. Keep reading!

 

 

But before we get into that I would be remiss if I didn’t give a modicum of back story. Interacting with planets is something we’ve always wanted to do. We have even shown a rough prototype of planetary flight at the first FanFest. Well, a lot has changed since that first FanFest but our desire to explore these thousands of worlds has remained unwavering. The EVE universe is such a rich and interesting place it’s been a shame we haven’t been able to immerse ourselves deeper into it. Until today where we are