EVE online carries a certain reputation among the general gaming populace for having a notoriously unfriendly learning curve and being frankly quite boring. I can’t dispute that EVE has it’s boring points as I have been guilty of playing in windowed mode so that I could surf the internet or do other unrelated activities while [...]

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For my research project I am currently playing EVE online. As a relatively new player (only one week old) I am basically the bottom rung of the food chain in the cold and harsh world of New Eden. Because of this I have spent the entirety of my time in high-sec space (The areas of [...]

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Further to our discussion on gendered environments, here is a link to a piece of machinima made for the sole purpose it seems to pay tribute to the sublime nature of the environments in EVE. I have to admit, they do appeal to me. Although I am a guy so that’s probably not very surprising.

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When I log in to EVE Online at the beginning of a long and potentially gruelling session I try to learn something new that I didn’t know about the game already. Since I know very little, finding such things is not normally a hard endeavour and more often than not, they are very obvious to [...]

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In an article found at massively joystiq on December 12th, they posed the question: Does Eve make you better at other MMOs? The author of this article found that by playing EVE for many years before playing other MMOs gave him experience and helped him be much more effective. The PvP experience gained by playing [...]

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I began my adventure in Eve online by downloading the trial game from the web site.  It was at this moment that my first alarm bell started to go off because the game I downloaded wasn’t the correct game and required  a bunch of additional downloads to be playable but the game didn’t tell you [...]

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When I first started playing 4Story, a free MMO with the choice of using real money to pay for in-game things, I had a very difficult time. It is a pretty decent quality game, more so than I had expected from a free one, but I assume that the income from more serious players helps [...]

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I guess the first thing to do is talk about what I’m going to talk about.  Then I’ll talk about it, then I might talk about what I said.  So in this post I’m going to quickly talk about a few things that I’ve found online that are kind of cool and seem at least [...]

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These videos provide not only a game review of the three MMOs  (Tabula Rasa, Age of Conan, Eve Online) but also makes use of social stereotypes associated with playing MMOs. these videos are posted on the www.escapistmagazine.com and are created by Yahtzee Crenshaw. The stereotypes that are applied are the general associated with being on [...]

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As I was saying in class the other day, Machinima (a contraction of ‘machine’ and ‘cinema’ which as far as I know no one knows how to pronounce) as found, for example, on Youtube, represents a really useful resource for representations of online environments, and is part of the ‘media ecology’ of what Mimi Ito [...]

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