EVE Online Enters Empyrean Age [Expansionism]

<p><img src="http://kotaku.com/assets/images/kotaku/2008/06/empyreanage.jpg" class="postimg center" style="display:block;display:block;"/>The latest expansion to CCP Games' deep space MMO EVE Online has just gone live, bringing space-miners, space-moguls, and space-fighters alike into the Empyrean Age. The expansion focuses on two of the most important aspects of any MMO, storyline and PVP, introducing factional warfare, a system of militia ranks, system occupancy, combat zones, and factional warfare bases for players to capture and control. Each of the factions now has a corporation open to all pilots to help coordinate war efforts.</p> <p>Along with all of the healthy player killing comes an entirely new region called Black Rise, which contains 49 new star systems and 40 new stations, many of which are already sworn to a specific faction.</p> <p>It sounds to me like folks hungry for some ship-on-ship PVP might want to sign up for their umpteenth free trial of EVE Online.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eveonline.com/empyreanage/index.html">Empyrean Age Features Page</a> [EVE Online]</p> <br style="clear:both;"/> <img alt="" style="border:0;height:1px;width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=11a990193811fbd8d80b3a3d638c2e74" height="1" width="1"/>
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