CCP to make announcement in August

By Oli Welsh Published 10 June, 2009

World of Darkness? EVE: Walking in Stations?

Hilmar Petursson, boss of EVE Online developer CCP, is to give a keynote address at the Game Developers Conference Europe in August where he will make "an announcement on its latest project".

No further details are given, but CCP is known to have two major initiatives in development: the Walking in Stations extension to EVE, and World of Darkness, a mature horror MMO based on the White Wolf table-top RPG. Of course, Petursson might have something else altogether in mind.

"'Niche' is not a dirty word," reads the official keynote preview. "CCP grew from relative obscurity in the middle of the Atlantic to a major MMO company. CEO Hilmar Petursson will show what brought them here and share exclusive views into the future, including an announcement on its latest project, suggesting that the opportunity for the game industry to reinvent itself is now."

GDC Europe takes place on August 17th-19th in Cologne, Germany, ahead of the GamesCom Convention in the same city. Our colleagues from GamesIndustry.biz will be there in force, so watch this space (or that one) for news when the time comes.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #1 3 years ago

    Seeing as I've been hearing WiS isn't going to be this year and it isn't exactally 'new' - WoD seems the safter bet... however.. this could be somthing new

  • gmmonkey #2 3 years ago

    I'm reckoning world of darkness. It's been in development for 2 years and they've probably got something to show by now. Should be interesting. CCP have always got intriguing ideas. Looking forward to the announcement.

  • FladgeMangle #3 3 years ago

    EVE for PS3/360 :o)

  • FooAtari #4 3 years ago

    EVE for PS3/360 :o)

    Fat chance me thinks

  • YourMessageHere #5 3 years ago

    New "thin client" technology, wherein Eve discards the graphics entirely and runs purely as a plugin for Excel, but with extra Russians and griefing?

    Hope World of Darkness is more like Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines (with community patches) and less like Eve.
    Edited by 1 at 10/06/09 @ 12:43

  • Spekingur #6 3 years ago

    How the heck could WoD be like Eve?

    I am hoping for the Walking in Stations for Eve. I told myself that I wouldn't go back to Eve until WiS happens and I really would like to start playing Eve again :p

  • Roamer #7 3 years ago

    Actually, WoD would work perfectly as an EVE-clone. Vampires grow in power with time, just as the characters in Eve. And... well, that's the only immediate similarity.

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #8 3 years ago

    Yup from the WoD books and what we've been speculating WoDO can actally be pulled out of EVE's core design quite easily. Mage, Werewolf and Vampire can bacisally be the three 'factions' of the game and EVE's sandbox nature fits and character growth with a roleplay world nicely, the only thing we don't know of is how the avitars would work HOWEVER with WiS in EVE it's not a huge leap to say that was a testbed not just for EVE but with WoDO too.

  • PanStre #9 3 years ago

    STOP ANNOUNCING ANNOUNCEMENTS MORONS

  • Ryuken #10 3 years ago

    "Hope World of Darkness is more like Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines (with community patches) and less like Eve."

    Yup, less spreadsheet, more well-written character based stuff. They're still not gonna come close to Bloodlines probably though, no game will I think.

  • Olemak #11 3 years ago

    Maybe it's EVE: Walking in Darkness. Vampires in outer space.

    Actually, Walking is Darkness is a very cool name...

    Bloodlines was awesome, if flawed.

  • Iora #12 3 years ago

    CCP can do no wrong imho... well... better just backup a boot.ini just in case ;p

  • zedzee #13 3 years ago

    @ EG:

    You're telling us about an announcement that's not been announced yet?

  • chudders #14 3 years ago

    I play Eve and the prospect of walking in stations just seems a bit... pointless. Why would I want to spend 3 minutes walking to the mission office when I can just click on it?