EVE Evolved is an EVE Online column by Brendan Drain. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]
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EVE Evolved: What’s the deal with EVE’s PLEX changes?
This week CCP Games announced that some big changes are on the way for PLEX in EVE Online. The PLEX or "30-day Pilot's License...
EVE Evolved: Hints of EVE Online’s summer update
The EVE Online community was a little surprised this week by what appeared to be the accidental early reveal of the feature list for this summer's...
EVE Evolved: What do we want from Drilling Platforms?
If you followed our EVE Fanfest coverage last year, you might remember CCP announcing plans to add a whole series of new deployable structures...
EVE Evolved: Would EVE Online make a good survival game?
EVE Online has practically dominated the sci-fi sandbox MMO niche for nearly 14 years, with its harsh PvP-oriented gameplay and massive single-server universe combining to provide something that's...
EVE Evolved: Making stories with friends in EVE Online
It's one of the more peculiar laws of the universe that when enough EVE Online players meet in the real world, they absolutely must swap stories. You...
EVE Evolved: Five EVE video shows to watch in 2017
Over the past several years, the way in which we receive gaming news and the types of gaming media we follow has changed pretty fundamentally. Today's...
EVE Evolved: 2016 EVE Online year in review
It's been another busy year for sci-fi MMO EVE Online, and an absolute roller coaster ride for both players and developer CCP Games. On the...
EVE Evolved: The Siege of M-0EE8, the new largest battle in gaming history
In the political sandbox of EVE Online, colossal player-run military coalitions frequently war over territorial conflicts, in revenge for past transgressions or just for...
EVE Evolved: Getting started with EVE’s free-to-play
Just under two weeks ago, EVE Online launched its new free to play account option with the introduction of clone states. Subscribers are now given the...
EVE Evolved: Three essential tips for new alpha clone players
EVE Online's Ascension expansion goes live in just two days on Tuesday November 15th, introducing the new free-to-play alpha clone state and completely overhauling...
EVE Evolved: Alpha Clone economics, bragging rights, and restrictions
Yesterday at EVE Vegas 2016, developer CCP Rise held us spellbound with tales of his recent misadventures in EVE Online recently when pretending to...
EVE Evolved: Controversy over gambling bans and charities
It's been a crazy, drama-filled week in EVE Online, starting with a controversial change to the EULA that will ban all gambling sites using in-game currency or assets...
EVE Evolved: What else is coming to EVE Online in November?
Recently I've been looking at how EVE Online will be affected by the introduction of free-to-play "alpha clone" accounts in its upcoming November expansion, but there's a...
EVE Evolved: Free-to-play PvP cruiser fitting guide
EVE Online's new free-to-play account option will be going live as part of an upcoming expansion this November, allowing new players to delve into the game and its...
EVE Evolved: The consequences of a free-to-play EVE
This week we heard the unexpected news that EVE Online will be going partially free-to-play when the next expansion lands in November. Like many games...
EVE Evolved: No Man’s Sky vs EVE Online
Like many EVE Online fans, I've spent the past week fully immersed in the procedurally generated universe of No Man's Sky and wondering what its mechanics and...
EVE Evolved: The single-shard sandbox economy
The debate about what makes a good sandbox game is as old as the term itself, and everyone seems to have a different view...
EVE Evolved: When was EVE Online’s golden age?
In the latest Massively Overthinking article, our Patreon patron Duane got us thinking about whether the golden age of the MMO industry has passed or MMOs are actually in...
EVE Evolved: What went wrong with the Shadow of the Serpent event?
Last week's EVE Online patch added the massive Shadow of the Serpent event, a game-wide storyline arc that pits players against the Serpentis and Angel...
EVE Evolved: Can EVE be played casually?
We've heard a lot recently about huge territorial wars raging in EVE Online with thousands of pilots taking part, which some consider to be the ultimate endgame...
