What makes EVE Online so exciting is that it gives players so much freedom to do cruel and thrilling things. This can also make players very angry. Developer CCP took down the servers for EVE and its PlayStation 3 FPS spin-off Dust 514 over the weekend following a nasty denial-of-service attack, and while we don't know who did it or why, let's just pretend it was someone enraged by the serious world of Internet spaceships; it's more fun that way.

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The next free expansion for Eve Online--number 19 if you are keeping count--is coming out next week, and developer CCP has released a new video detailing many of the changes in the Odyssey pack. Plug your ears, however, if bad music offends you.

Watch: 2013: An Eve Odyssey »

CCP has announced plans to turn its EVE Online game universe into a television series. The company has entered into a "creative partnership" with Baltasar Kormákur, an Icelandic filmmaker who recently directed Contraband starring Mark Wahlberg.

Read more: User-submitted stories to 'inspire' new series »

CCP has announced a new collector's edition of their space MMO, EVE Online. Dubbed the "Second Decade" edition, this new $150 bundle commemorates the first ten years of EVE.

Included in the box is a 190 page hardcover book titled Into the Second Decade, which chronicles the initial release of EVE Online, its expansion, and the launch of PS3 companion shooter DUST 514.

Read more: Tons of other bonuses »

Who hasn't dreamed of being in a dogfight in space? CCP, developer of EVE Online, has created a prototype for Oculus Rift that realizes that vision.

Created in seven weeks by a team at CCP, the Unity-powered prototype has players fighting in 6v6 space battles set in the EVE universe. "This is a bunch of guys in their spare time, basically last year saw what Oculus was doing, EVE executive producer Jon Lander said. It apparently "came out of the blue."

Read more: 'God knows what we'll do with this' »

Space is good because spaceships can shoot each other with lasers in it, but also because good grief it is colossal and amazing and filled with so many things we can scarcely begin to imagine. With that in mind, the next free EVE Online expansion, named Odyssey, will launch on June 4 with a number of shiny new features to make exploring e-space even cooler than it already is.

Read more: Plus a galactic rebalancing and so much more »

Fantasy MMORPGs may come and go, but dear old EVE Online stands firm, offering something unique and (mostly) not throwing money away lusting after World of Warcraft's crown. Developer CCP today announced that its Internet spaceships MMO has passed 500,000 subscribers for the first time in its almost-ten-year history, making it pretty pleased as it heads into the second decade.

Read more: Not all plain sailing though »

Now that Dust 514 is all snuggled up alongside EVE Online on one single server, the PlayStation 3-exclusive MMOFPS is almost ready to let everyone in. After six months of a closed beta which players could pay their way into, it'll enter open beta on January 22, so all and sundry can became pawns in someone else's cross-game scheming.

Read more: No more wipes planned »

Dust 514 and EVE Online are taking a major step into a cross-platform universe this week, as the Dust beta servers will migrate into EVE's. This Thursday, EVE players will start noticing Dust mercenaries occupying the Tranquility server, finally bringing the two games together as intended.

Read more: EVE players can call Orbital Strikes »

EVE Online developer CCP has released its latest expansion, titled "Retribution." The large patch is available starting today, and offers a long list of bug fixes, balance changes, and new features.

Read more: Bounty Hunting takes the spotlight »

Let's set aside the tedious debate over whether or not games are art and skip to a practical question: how would you display a game as a piece of art? Simply leaving the game running for visitors to play won't mean anything to people who aren't game-literate, especially if it's something complex. EVE Online is facing that problem now, having been selected for the Museum of Modern Art's new permanent video game collection, and is turning to players for help.

Read more: Capturing a day in New Eden »

Space-jerkface sandbox simulator EVE Online's eighteenth free expansion is to focus loosely on crime and punishment, developer CCP has announced. 'Retribution' will launch on December 4, with a grab-bag of changes ranging from new ships to a revamped bounty hunting system to help you metaphorically parade around Jita with your enemy's head atop a space-pike.

Read more: Plus new ships and more »

Dust 514 and Eve Online were always pitched as complementary experiences, and the two games are slowly coalescing. The next update to Dust 514 will further the shared experience by making Corporations work across both platforms.

Read more: Appointing directors across-game »

CCP has been investigating the circumstances surrounding a get-rich-quick scheme in EVE Online that gained trillions of ISK for a group of players after they discovered an exploit in the recent Inferno update revamping Factional Warfare. After weighing the options, the developer has finally come down hard on the wallets of the offenders.

Read more: Players' accounts rolled back »

EVE Online's complex and unforgiving nature may put many off the MMO, but it produces some cracking stories for us all to enjoy. The notorious Goonswarm have pulled another astonishing caper, manipulating galactic war and the markets to supposedly earn an absurd amount of money.

"Occasionally you will see the odd forum poster that throws out wild conspiracy theories about shadowy figures controlling parts of the game, or in the case of the especially insane, Goons controlling the game," said one of the Goons behind it. "This has never been true...until now."

Read more: Inflating prices and destroying their own ships »