In the first episode of my new Something, Something, Spaceships podcast, I announced an EVE flash fiction competition, the main prize being the production of an audio short based on the best entry. The top three entries would also get 100m ISK each. Only two entries were received by the Read more…
Jefferson rubbed his brow wearily. This conversation was doing nothing for his headache. “Look, there’s nothing wrong with the ship. It’s a very nice ship. Shiny, made of metal, a decent size. If I accidentally find myself in a belt in Molden Heath, I can well imagine the Angels who Read more…
“A vodka, if you’d be so kind. And some… some of those little sausage things. On sticks.” “Coming right up, ma’am. How was your day?” “Oh. Was it a day? I know we keep day and night on the station, but when you’re out in the belts… the light never Read more…
I’ve long had a hankering to return to podcasting after my overly ambitious attempt at a lore-based audio drama faded into antiquity in 2012. After some procrastination, technical issues and – to be quite honest, nerves – I finally managed to get my spaceships in a row to produce episode Read more…
Sound cast in the pod,With spaceships they Fly Reckless,Your verse is their need. Fly Reckless is EVE Online’s senior podcast. Founded in 2008 by Silicon Buddha and releasing their pilot episode in June that year, the show has had a long and colourful history of discussing all things EVE. Now Read more…
Do you have the chops to write some fictitious journalism set in the EVE universe? Can you imagine what the working conditions on a gas extractor are like? Can you picture the chaos of how the average capsuleer’s hangar would really work? Then maybe you’d like to come help on Read more…
Amidst a tumultuous barrage of discussion about Darren Aronofsky/Michael Bay mash-ups and EVE-playing world leaders, my podcasting co-host Arydanika and I recently had the opportunity to discuss all things EVE with Nick Blood and Nathan Knaack, better known in EVE circles as CCP Dropbear and CCP Headfirst. I wanted to Read more…
The hours before an EVE Online patch-day makes its players write and behave strangely. This “re-imagining” of a traditional Christmas Carol is a joyously cheesy celebration of the anticipation felt across the cluster by the eager and impatient inhabitants of New Eden. The poem was written by Mark726 of EVE Read more…
Originally written by Mord Fiddle as a rapier-sharp commentary on events surrounding EVE Online’s 2011 “Summer of Incarnage”, this Chaucer-esque Shakespearian Iliad about the woes of MMO community management was begging to be performed by the Royal Shakespeare Society. Instead, it got one man narrating and performing questionable impersonations of Read more…
With this month’s blog banter discussing immersion, it seems like a good opportunity to mention one particular experiment in the immersive depths of EVE lore. Borne of the idea of exploring what the ordinary denizens of New Eden might think of the capsuleer warmongers and tycoons that roam the heavens, Read more…