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Here’s the latest teaser trailer for Eve’s upcoming expansion Quantum Rise - which goes live tomorrow!

Here’s the latest upto date Expansion Patch Notes.

Players have great things to look forward to in EVE Online: Quantum Rise. Corporations will be able to set their products apart from the rest by building trust in their goods through customizable storefronts. The backbone of EVE’s vibrant economy, industrial ships are being rebalanced and optimized to better suit the needs of haulers and industrialists, including the latest edition to the fleet, a massive capital industrial ship dubbed the Orca. A new certificate system will give a quick and verifiable means to discern a pilot’s skill level in trading, gunnery or countless other professions, providing plenty of bragging rights. Meanwhile, the introduction of a medal system allows corporations to distinguish their most valued pilots and honor them for their achievements.

The staged delivery of EVE Online: Quantum Rise began with the recent implementation of technological breakthroughs such as StacklessIO and EVE64 which upgraded the server hardware and streamlined communication between server and client to severely reduce lag. The reality of thousands of ships simultaneously engaged in adrenaline-charged combat is at hand and several fleet battles have already been fought using this new technology. Emboldened by the significant effects these improvements bring to high-level gameplay, CCP will push forward with a myriad of hardware and server improvements to bring the most massive player vs player experience available, expanding a boundless universe into a limitless one.

“We are very proud to be delivering this expansion, both in terms of features and the sheer performance increases made possible by deep refactoring of selected portions of our network and server code, complimented with the finest hardware we could find,” says Torfi Frans Ólafsson, Senior Producer of EVE Online. “I can’t imagine a better game where you can engage hundreds of people simultaneously in highly immersive tactical combat or simply sit back and make millions off of the conflict via research, manufacturing or logistics. You choose your destiny; that’s the beauty of it.”

Further features also include:

Published quarterly, E-ON is EVE Online’s official magazine: now 84 pages of glossy, high-colour news, interviews, previews, exclusive fiction and player guides, all of it professionally written and produced by a dedicated team of writers and designers from within the EVE community and beyond.

Click here to order the Magazine.

SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE

The theme for this issue of E-ON is the economy. Yes, we know it’s all doom and gloom in the real world, but in EVE things are actually doing OK. Thing is, not everyone understands how it all works, yet perhaps we all should, beyond the buy low/sell high mantra that some like to wheel out to prove they’ve got it all figured out. 

Like some great unseen power, the economy of EVE surrounds and penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together. Luckily we’ve found someone who can teach us all about its mysterious ways without continually putting nouns before adjectives and spouting lots of voodoo nonsense… and he isn’t all that diminutive either. And, no, we’re not referring to CCP Chronotis, who kindly lets us in on CCP’s thinking behind what will be the focus of the coming winter expansion, and why even those who might have already dismissed it as one for carebears should sit up and take notice.

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WAAAAGH!!!

We apologize for the short notice but our team has been working long into the night to make sure 1.0.2 came to you as soon as possible…and come it has!

Starting at 7AM EDT all North American servers will be brought down to begin the update, Oceanic servers will follow at 9AM EDT. We anticipate North American servers to be online by 12PM (Noon) EDT with Oceanic servers being back online by 1PM EDT.

You can find all of the exciting changes 1.0.2 has to offer right here. As always check the Herald for important information and updates.

Have fun!

Update - 7AM EDT: All NA Servers are now down for the update. Oceanic servers are still scheduled to come down to begin the update at 9AM EDT.

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Halo Wars is a real-time action strategy game for the Xbox 360 that allows the player to control large armies and to shrewdly direct them in realistic warfare. Set early in the iconic war between the Covenant and UNSC - made famous by the Halo FPS games - Halo Wars provides a new angle on the war while bringing new heroes to the battle.

In Halo Wars fans will be able to control armies of units that are familiar to them from the FPS games, such as UNSC Marines, Scorpion Tanks, and the iconic Warthog.  

For those who havn’t seen it yet, here’s the latest Halo Wars trailer.

Having been a little aprehensive at first, and a little jaded myself after participation in the Warhammer Online - Age of Reckoning beta, I decided to wait for some of the hype to settle down before taking a closer look at the latest MMO on the block.

When I realised that EA we’re offering the game as a direct download from their website, I couldn’t resist downloading it last weekend and giving it a good look through.

I am pretty impressed so far to be honest - it’s not perfect but then what game is right? It did meet my expectations, and exceeded in some cases. 

After reading a lot of reviews, I came across this one posted on the Eurogamer website. I think it sums up nicely the entire gameplay pretty well and so wanted to share. Here’s the original link, or pasted below for the lazy.

So what do YOU think - is everyone having as much fun as I am? Oh, and one last thing - if you watch the entire intro video on the game it is absolutely amazing. Fantastico!

 

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