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Winners of the UK Best Places To Work Awards 2026 revealed
The UK Best Places to Work Awards 2026 recognized 25 companies for excellence in staff support, with special awards given to Dink, Hangar 13, Jagex, NaturalMotion Games, Rare, and Snap Finger Click. The awards ceremony followed the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit, highlighting studios that excel in creating positive work environments.
EVE Online is updating NPC ‘agents’ as part of wider tech upgrades, so make sure to contact your digital fellas
EVE Online is undergoing a significant technical upgrade that involves future-proofing its mission-granting NPC agents and improving its underlying database infrastructure by moving from Python 2 to Python 3. While player standings will remain unaffected, players who have interacted with an agent but not updated their progress before the upgrade will see their jobs cleared out.
EVE Online’s GM Week promises spaceship loot pinatas and more starting September 28
EVE Online is bringing back its annual GM Week event from September 28th to October 2nd. During this week, Game Masters will actively participate in the game, hosting events, engaging in spaceship roams, and interacting with players. More details will be provided closer to the event's start.
EVE Online: Cradle of War update launches, reworking wormhole combat sites & jump bridge use
The Cradle of War update for EVE Online has launched, introducing significant changes to wormhole combat sites, pirate insurgencies, and jump bridge mechanics. Pirate Insurgencies are now more aggressive with increased rewards, while wormhole combat sites feature modernized NPCs and improved visuals. The update also includes ship rebalancing for several classes, with marauders and black ops battleships receiving lower mass for easier wormhole travel.
EVE Vanguard enters 24/7 paid alpha November 10, pushes early access back into next year
EVE Vanguard will enter a 24/7 paid alpha on November 10th, pushing its Steam early access launch back to Q3 2027. The alpha will include new maps, an upgraded weapon progression system, alliance affiliation, and improved movement mechanics like vaulting. Information on access costs will be revealed closer to November.
EVE Online preps for its next player council, EVE Frontier shows tweaks to scanning and movement
CCP Games is preparing for the next Council of Stellar Management player feedback group for EVE Online, with candidate submissions, campaigning, and voting dates announced. Separately, EVE Frontier showcased updates including improved scanning and zero-g flight mechanics, and a video detailed the development of its FPS module, highlighting planetary design influenced by Iceland and a tool for creating points of interest.
Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier adds a new spaceship refueler module and applies changes to various items
The blockchain MMO EVE Frontier has received several updates, including the addition of a new spaceship refueler module called the Blackstart Cell, which allows players to refuel spacecraft in sunlight. The game also introduced a leaderboard feature and made various balance adjustments to items and game mechanics.
You Can Watch A Cow Play Eve Online Right Now
Fenris Creations, formerly CCP Games, is livestreaming a cow named Valva playing Eve Online from Iceland. The cow, controlled via "cow-proof" buttons, is participating in a mining operation within the Cradle of War expansion. The event has garnered thousands of viewers and aims to unlock community goals.
EVE Online has a cow playing the game today. Yes, seriously. Stop laughing.
Developer Fenris Creations is livestreaming a cow playing EVE Online using custom buttons as part of a promotional stunt for the Cradle of War expansion. The event aims to showcase the game's accessibility, with players invited to join the cow's in-game mining fleet.
EVE Frontier’s inaugural Conclave of Luminaries fills its eight seats
Fenris Creations has appointed eight players to the inaugural Conclave of Luminaries for its game EVE Frontier. This community body aims to provide a permanent channel for player feedback to the studio. The appointments were revealed during the game's weekly Frontier Friday stream.
Synths, impossible physics, and an "erotic experience with a PS5 controller" - the side projects of game devs are a reminder creativity is undimmable
This article highlights the undimmable nature of human creativity through the lens of game developers' personal side projects. Despite industry pressures, developers are pursuing diverse creative outlets, from interactive fiction and VR experiences to physical art and hardware experiments, demonstrating a persistent drive to create for its own sake.
EVE Frontier adds a new ship, new space hazard, and new items in its latest patch
EVE Frontier has released a new patch introducing the Reiver spacecraft, a new sentry turret, character raiments, and the temporal desync status effect. The update also includes significant quality-of-life improvements, particularly to the UI, such as updates for the fitting window and inventory, and moving some right-click context menu options to the 'F' key.
EVE Frontier’s 0.6.8.0 Update Brings a Modular Reiver, Deployable Sentry Turret and Temporal Desync
Fenris Creations released EVE Frontier update 0.6.8.0, introducing a reworked modular Reiver ship, a deployable sentry turret, and a new Temporal Desync status effect. This mid-cycle update also adds support for managing multiple ships via boarding at a refuge. Future updates will focus on full ship and structure modularity, temporary player teams, and shared storage.
EVE Online shares overall design principles for giving its HUD ‘accessible complexity’
Fenris Creations is sharing its design principles for improving the user interface complexity in EVE Online, aiming for 'accessible complexity'. The studio's dev blogs will focus on making ship speed, overheating, and danger more legible without altering the HUD's core identity. Testing will be conducted through an opt-in beta.
EVE Online studio hires former Icelandic minister to lead autonomous AI efforts
Fenris Creations, the developer behind EVE Online, has appointed former Icelandic minister Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir as its senior director of AI partnerships. She will lead the studio's initiative to test advanced AI systems within the persistent virtual world of EVE Frontier, aiming to create a live proving ground for autonomous agents in complex economic and social environments.
Comings and Goings
Developer That's No Moon, known for the Crossfire franchise, has experienced layoffs. Separately, former Icelandic minister Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir has joined Fenris Creations to lead new AI partnerships.
Fenris Creations hires former Icelandic minister to lead AI partnerships, deepens Google DeepMind research through EVE Frontier
Fenris Creations, formerly CCP Games, has appointed former Icelandic Minister Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir as Senior Director of AI Partnerships to foster collaborations with AI labs and universities. The company is leveraging its persistent world MMO, EVE Frontier, as a live testing environment for autonomous AI agents, building on its existing research partnership with Google DeepMind.
Fenris Creations recaps EVE Online and EVE Vanguard’s Operation Avalon, hires Icelandic politician for ‘AI alignment’
Fenris Creations, formerly CCP Games, has released a recap of the recent Operation Avalon event, which integrated EVE Online and EVE Vanguard players. The company also announced the hiring of former Icelandic Minister Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir as Senior Director, AI Partnerships, to lead initiatives for EVE Frontier, focusing on AI research and collaboration.
EVE Online breaks down how September’s update will tweak player-built jump bridges
EVE Online's September update will introduce changes to player-built Ansiblex jump bridges, altering their functionality from fuel and tolls to capacitor energy usage. These adjustments aim to create more logistical pressure on player organizations and are intended to help smaller groups compete with larger ones, though feedback is still being gathered.
Open-source ambitions arrive: EVE Frontier, MapleStory Universe and Pixels test decentralized play
EVE Frontier, MapleStory Universe, and Pixels are exploring decentralized engagement models in gaming, focusing on user-generated content and economic structures. EVE Frontier allows player modification of persistent structures, MapleStory Universe uses verified Action Modules for community marketplaces, and Pixels plans to open-source its frontend. The article questions whether these approaches represent true economic primitives or simply new packaging for decentralization, highlighting the challenge of autonomous systems and player trust in building lasting value.
