The Blue Casket

It’s been said many times that you can’t take a bad screenshot in EVE Online, and this Flickr group certainly supports the idea. As we end our week of gaming photography/screenshotting, we dive into space and take a spin around the beautiful space epic MMO. Next week, normal service returns!

EVE Online @ Flickr

I promise, this is the last EVE: Online link for a week or two, but The Five Year Spree is going up all week on Rock, Paper, Shotgun and it’s a touching look back on Jim Rossignol’s five years running EVE Corporation StateCorp. It’s a Runner-like dedication to a game that Jim loves dearly, but the fact that it reflects on the actions of humans rather than the game itself makes it all the more special. Jim is passionate about EVE, and this makes The Five Year Spree essential reading.

The Five Year Spree

I’m still away today, but I’ve got a read for you nonetheless. Bookending the weekend with another EVE Online link, this is a short series of forum posts detailing an intricate assault on a system in the epic space MMO. It’s different to most EVE diary links, which are usually single people. Here you get more of a sense of how the corporation (EVE’s take on guilds) works together. It’s impressive, and more than a little exciting. Illustration courtesy of our Friday link.

The Invasion Of G-7WUF

There’s something magical about EVE, something frontier-like about it. Anything seems possible, and even though the reality of the game is a lot less romantic and requires a lot more hard work than most trial players would imagine, the game does embody the feeling of adventure and heroics-seeking that I think the best games are all about. Today we link through to Diary of a Pod Pilot, a charming blog of a single EVE character, detailing a whole load of in-game hijinks with some superb screenshots. EVE diaries are extremely readable for non-players; I recommend taking a look!

Diary of a Pod Pilot

Aside – I’m away over the weekend, but I’ve got the usual glut of weekend posts scheduled, including a new Short. Don’t forget to keep sending your links in! bluecasket <at> sekritforum <dot> com.

Bear with me on this one. EVE Online is a fascinating world, and there’s a huge number of subcultures within it, big events that never make news outside of even a small segment of the game’s community, let alone the wider gaming world. But it should be, because it’s bloody interesting, so today’s pick is a sort of fascinating yet horrifying account of how easy it is to dupe some people in this huge MMO. It’s part entertainment, and part warning, I guess.

Oh, and brace for textspeak. Worth it, though.

My Eve Online Scams

I love blogs like The Eve Online 0.0 Experiment. (continue reading…)

If there’s one thing we know about EVE, it’s that it’s really fricking big. If, say, there was some other thing we knew about EVE, it would be that its community are probably the most dedicated out there today. One member of that community is DireLauthris, and he’s been creating a few videos set in the universe that you should definitely go and watch. (continue reading…)