CCP Announces Major Upgrade to EVE Online

EVE Online: Red Moon Rising

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND – November 18st, 2005 – CCP Games, an independent developer and publisher of massively multiplayer online games, today announced the public release of “EVE Online®: Red Moon Rising”, a new expansion to its highly successful and fast-growing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) “EVE Online®: Exodus”. Red Moon Rising is scheduled for release this December, and will be provided to subscribers free of charge.

“Red Moon Rising is the last of the EXODUS chapters and is the precursor of the Kali expansion,” said Magnus Bergsson, CMO of CCP Games. “Players will see new ships and features in Red Moon Rising created explicitly to augment warfare, so those who crave the adrenaline rush of action-packed PVP will really enjoy this release!”

With nearly 80,000 active subscribers and over 17,000 simultaneous users on one server, “EVE Online” is the largest independently developed and published MMORPG on the market.

“The introduction of these new components is analogous to adding rooks, knights, and the mighty queen to a galactic chessboard,” said Nathan Richardsson, Lead Producer for EVE Online. “Fighters, carriers, and titans are going to take combat to a scale that the MMPORG genre has never seen before. In addition, the sheer economics required just to produce these leviathans will create great opportunities for industrious-minded gamers to take advantage of.”

EVE Online®: Red Moon Rising is the march towards an epic clash between the empires as the tentative peace presiding over the galaxy continues to slip away. Nations begin to conspire against one another, secretly preparing for the inevitable conflict that threatens to redefine the borderlines of EVE forever.

Some of the key features of this upgrade are:

Titans: The largest, most fearsome space faring battle vessels ever created
Carriers: Front line capital ships providing fighter coverage and support for fleets
Bloodlines: The addition of Asian bloodlines available to each of the races
COSMOS Constellation Expansion: Addition of constellation missions to Gallente and Amarr territories
Fighters: The main offensive and defensive weapon of the Carrier
Starbases and sovereignty: Additions of roles to improve control access of services and improved calculations of player-determined Sovereignty
Next-Generation Manufacturing & Research Facilities: Mass-manufacturing enabling and remote industry management.
Performance Optimizations: Optimizations to core systems to provide even better performance.
Mining Industry Upgrade: New equipment, ships and skills for miners
Combat Enhancements: Varied improvements to combat, enhanced defenses and configuration overhauls
Jettisoned Canister Flagging: Removing the contents of a jettisoned canister that is not your own will flag you as a thief
Drone Enhancements: New drone capabilities and improved performance
An Eye for an Eye: You are allowed to revenge the unlawful destruction of your ship
Tech II: 23 new Tech II ships, including destroyers, battlecruisers and mining barges
New Corporate Logos: Corporations have more options to create their own identity
NPC Changes: New NPC’s featuring elite ships with advanced capabilities such as cap draining
UI Improvements: Need info from Hagen.
Full Unicode Client: The EVE client now supports any language in the universe

About CCP
CCP Games, a privately held company, is a recognized leader in the creation of challenging and unique massively multiplayer online games that offer gamers a fresh alternative to traditional fantasy games. CCP creates, develops, publishes and distributes its own games, and is one of the few MMOG companies that have experienced continued user growth since its start. CCP Games is headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland.

About EVE Online
EVE Online is host to the largest virtual universe in the world, and is the fastest-growing Massively Multi-Player Online Game (MMPOG) of the genre. Set tens of thousands of years in the future, EVE is a breathtaking journey to the stars, to an immersive experience filled with adventure, riches, danger, and glory.

Supported by a vast player-run economy, EVE offers professions to choose ranging from commodities trader to mercenary; industrial entrepreneur to pirate; mining engineer to battle fleet commander; or any combination of these and much more. Join forces with other players to form mighty corporations; unite coalitions to forge powerful alliances; or run solo to stake your own claim to power in EVE.

Your greatest asset is the starship, designed to accommodate your specific needs, skills, and ambitions. Complementing its lethal arsenal are thousands of modules and components, allowing for countless levels of customizations. From brokering business deals to waging war, you will have access to a diverse array of sophisticated tools and interfaces to create your own destiny in EVE.

New Screenshots
Screenshots for Red Moon Rising can be found at: http://www.eve-online.com/community/pr/presskit.zip

Contact Information

Magnus Bergsson

(CMO)

CCP Games

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