In-game news agency appeared in Eve Online

The partial withdrawal of the N3 coalition forces from Insmaser and the adjacent sections of space led to the emergence of a power vacuum, which was the reason for the increase in the number of attacks on ships in the area.

This is not a news bulletin of the future, it is a summary of the real news — true from a computer game. Eve Online, a very popular multiplayer game that takes place in space, provides players with a whole universe. Unlike another popular game, World of Warcraft, all Eve Online players are in the same game universe. Conflicts of major alliances, the emergence of new communities, various important gaming events can affect thousands of players around the world.

And last year's event, which led to the largest battle in the history of the game, attracted the attention of not only the gaming media - both because of the colorful battle and because the virtual property in the battle suffered about $ 300 thousand. After all, the game's internal game currency , ISK, is exchanged for real money.
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This attention was the impetus for Ragnar Ewaldsson, general media producer at CCP (the game's creator). He wanted to explain to those people who do not know anything about this game, what kind of game it is, and what events take place in its virtual world. Especially for this, he created the "Galactic News Network" with the program "The Scope".


News release fragment

Ragnar is trying to make The Scope interesting for both players and outside observers. It includes statements from coalition leaders. In the next issue, he plans to include an in-game chat, which, at his request, was provided to him by the players. In the future, he wants to streamline news releases within the game itself, somewhere on giant monitors of space stations.