Massive Gamer Magazine: Beginnings

A few blogs back I talked about Massive Gamer Magazine, a newcomer to the MMO media arena. Since then, they’ve been adding a ton of content daily, covering pretty much every bit of MMO news that’s come out.

Today marks the start of a new series of articles on MGM written by myself, the first of which is online now for folks to read.  It’s something that I’ll be doing on a regular basis, and won’t any of the things that I do for the EVE community right now (comic, and podcast) — both of which have fallen behind due to real life commitments, but that shall be rectified very soon.

So check out the site, give the article a read, and feel free to leave comments on the new forum thread started at the site, or here at this blog if you wish.  This is a pretty cool opportunity, and it’s one that I’m really excited about!

Source: Beginnings

Surprise Summer 2009 Expansion

Bimjo on the EO forums has nicely compiled the major points of a patch coming in summer 2009 that was revealed during Fanfest today.

New Exploration
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unstable wormholes
new scanner and map
new skills and modules
all used to explore and find stuff to make T3 components

UI modified

Epic missions,do storyline then go to next stage(involving the unstable wormholes

lots of new T3 ships
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very customisable
components to build your own version of ship

NPC AI

I think I can speak for everyone when I say that pretty much everything in this is a welcome thing.  I’m pretty curious how they’re planning out customization, and hopefully it’s more than just cosmetic.

More details are no doubt forthcoming by CCP, but this is some pretty big news.

Update 1: A recording of the Live Dev Blog can be found here.  Thanks to whoever uploaded it!

Update 2: Someone recorded a video of ship customization.  Check it out here.  Whoa…

Source: condensed version of summer 2009 expansion