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New Features of EVE Online to be Unveiled at 2007 Game Developer’s Conference

CCP executives to discuss the evolution of EVE Online in speaker session with IBM and demonstrate latest game advances at booth# 5324

Reykjavik, Iceland - February 23, 2007

CCP Games, the world’s largest independent game developer, will be demonstrating the newest features of EVE Online at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, CA. The company will also, for the first time, show a trailer for the Ambulation Project, a new element of the game in which players’ characters can exit their ships and explore public space stations.

CCP executives will also be speaking at GDC in a session entitled, ‘It’s Full of Stars! A Look at the Technology Running the EVE Online Universe,’ sponsored by IBM. Hilmar Petursson, CEO of CCP and Halldor Fannor, CTO of CCP will be joined by George Dolbier, senior architect at IBM, to discuss the development of EVE Online and outline how CCP scales and controls EVE in a single-server persistent universe.

Booth details
When: March 7-9, 2007
Where: North Hall, booth# 5324, Game Developer’s Conference, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA

Speaker session details
“It’s Full of Stars! A Look at the Technology Running the EVE Online Universe”
When: Thursday, March 8, 2007, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Where: Room 2005, West Hall

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About EVE Online
Set tens of thousands of years in the future, EVE Online 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 a number of professions to choose from, ranging from commodities trader to mercenary, industrial entrepreneur to pirate, mining engineer to battle fleet commander or any combination of these. A player’s greatest asset is his or her starship, designed to accommodate specific needs, skills and ambitions. Complementing the ship’s lethal arsenal are thousands of modules and components, allowing for countless customizations. From brokering business deals to waging war, players have access to a diverse array of sophisticated tools and interfaces to forge their own destiny in EVE.

About CCP Games
CCP Games is an industry-leading independent developer and publisher of EVE Online, a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game. Founded in 1997 and privately held, CCP is recognized internationally as a pioneer of the single-server persistent universe architecture. EVE Online is played in nearly every country in the world with over 300,000 players. The company is headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland, with offices in Atlanta, London and Shanghai. More information is available at http://www.ccpgames.com.

Contact details

Sharon Howell
LEWIS PR
415 992 4400
eve-online@lewispr.com


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