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Blog Banter 41: Director's Cut

Welcome to the 41st edition of the EVE community Blog Banter, the cross-blog discussion that shakes the hive mind of the blogging community to see what's making that rattling sound.Anyone and everyone...

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Clouded Judgement

“Results, not theories!” barked the angry Director, “The Board didn't insist I personally visit this shambles of a colony so I could listen to your excuses!”Administrator Toukka winced at the pacing...

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No Retribution for Old Drones

Retribution has been a largely well-received patch to EVE Online. I use the term "patch" deliberately as there hasn't really been any significant content added to constitute describing Retribution as...

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Blog Banter 42: The 2012 Community Review of EVE Online

"A gaming universe as vast and unique as EVE Online is constantly evolving and the experience is different for every participant. Conventional games review techniques cannot possibly hope to provide an...

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Introducing Game Skinny: EVE Community Feedback Needed

I'm very excited. I've got a new writing gig and I'd like your help.Game Skinny is a new community-minded initiative which provides a united platform for gaming articles, news, features, videos and any...

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New Eden Open Coverage on Game Skinny

As mentioned in my previous post, I'm looking at providing coverage of EVE events and news for a new site called Game Skinny. As an experiment I provide some (admittedly incomplete) coverage of the New...

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Exploring EVE Online: The Journey So Far

As explained in my previous post introducing Game Skinny, there's a bit of bloggery jugglication going on. As such, my regular column for Guild Launch; Exploring EVE Online, is moving. Here's a new...

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Rixx Javix's Summary of BB40: Interstellar Blood Sports

In a strange confluence of Banter activity, whilst BB42: 2012 Community Review of EVE Online spools up and BB41: Director's Cut winds down (but there's still time if anyone else wants to pitch in), the...

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They Call Me Stan

They call me Stan. Seismic Stan.Actually, that's bullshit. No one calls me anything, because I talk to no one. You see, I don't exist.I've been at this game for as long as I can remember, but that's...

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Do Capsuleers Dream of Electric Ships?

I've lost a day somewhere, I'm sure of it.I've just checked my NEOCOM and it's been over twenty-four hours since I accepted the mission I've undocked for, yet it feels like it was just minutes ago I...

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How Can We Improve EVE Community Blog Banters?

The EVE Community Blog Banters exist to encourage cross-blog conversation and the sharing of traffic amongst blogging sites. The Banters are also a great way to marshal the resources of the eclectic...

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BB42: Final Result of the EVE Online Community Review

Like of jury of one's peers, some of the EVE blogosphere's finest scribes have passed judgement on the world's premier game of internet spaceships.The Impossible ChallengeNo single games journalist...

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A Turning of the EVE Fiction Tide?

In the past, I've made no secret of the fact that I think CCP undervalues the lore of EVE Online. I've seen what I perceive to be a cultural shift away from the interwoven backstories that make sense...

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Blog Banter 43: Celebrating the Nation of EVE

...Applaud Your Peers, Embarrass Your Enemies...At the turn of the year in meatspace, award season starts to spin up. Across the general media, folk are encouraged to look to their peers and recognise...

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Plancks, Cloaks and Techno-Zombies

I've woken up with a bit of a spring in my step. I didn't even mind so much that I was in the same glossy prison cell as always. I stand at the bottom of the walkway leading up to the hangar balcony...

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Summary of Blog Banter 41: Director's Cut

Way back in November,  Blog Banter 41: Director's Cut squeezed the creative juices of the EVE Bloggeratti for ideas on how to tell the story of EVE Online to a new audience. This gave us many diverse...

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Deconstructing Clouded Judgement

Writing Clouded Judgement for the Pod and Planet fiction contest was a real labour of love, based on some ideas I'd been kicking around for a while. I wanted to make something of my notes and record...

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Blog Banter 44: Is There Anybody Out There?

A conversation, led by the literary pugilist Poetic Stanziel and fiction champion Rhavas, has been rumbling in the bowels of the blogosphere for a few days now. Due to popular demand, for posterity and...

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Searching for Omens of the Future in the CSM Summit Minutes

 Following the release of the 113 page monster that is the minutes of the CSM 7 summit that took place in December, there will no doubt be broad discussion across the community as folk pick through the...

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Come Join the Writing Revolution

When I started writing an EVE blog in 2009, I had no idea where it would lead. I didn't really have a goal, it was just for fun and an outlet for creativity.But writing Freebooted also proved to be my...

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