• Interview with CCP ZuluPark, Game Designer with CCP; we talk about what you can expect from The Empyrean Age expansion
• Interview with Rodj Blake, CEO of Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris; we talk about how The Empyrean Age expansion affects the roleplayer community

• Some Icelandair Fanfest packages have leaked for North Americans to enjoy

Blimey! The EVE map has totally changed!. Firstly Triumverate have collapsed and other notherners scramble to grap their space. In Fountain BRUCE are getting a kicking from Pandemic Leigon.

In the south, BOB and GOONS are going at it, The Goonies haven't had much luck with titans, with one getting popped, one newly built one running away still at least SUAS knows how to use one BOOYA!

AAA are winning the battle against IAC, with thing looking bleak for anyone in the southern bit and due to a (typical) failure of research we notice that some guys called Solar Fleet and Solar Wing have shown up and we know sod all about them!

LOLMAILS are back, with the funniest killmails which get sent to us. Fighting for the prize this week we have UNiiSaRus rocket Drake (Midslot moduleS? Who needs em!) versus jacksfrosty and his omnitanked autocannon megathron.

Got a good kill mail for us to ridicule on the show? evemail the link to Urban Mongral or Winterblink!

In Discussion point this week, we have have a chat about the Empyrean Age expansion in general and factional warfare in particular. We do a basic explanation on how its goign to work and Blinky indulges in a bit of xenophobia

For homework this week Blinky recomends Life after people a tale of nature retaking the planet if all the humans disappear.

In Community news, The CSM election results are in congratulations to everyone who got elected, The first council meetings have already taken place and a new bit of the forum has been set up.

Theres a change to the game time cards which is causing a load of complaints. The 30 and 90 days cards are going and 60 day cards are being brought in.

Epic new movie called Clear Skies. Its an EVE machinima using the HL2 engine! Well worth downloading and watching repeatedly

We interview the man behind it John Rourke AKA Ian Chisholm. An what a nice chap he is too!

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Cartography news! Serenity Steele and MMM publishing have created the rather spiffeh EVE Maps book., It also contains the new low sec regions between Caldari and Gallente space

To win a copy of the EVE map book book, check out the sample page, and then make your own map for what ever fictional location which you think will make us laugh!

Lead out tune, 'Space Game' by MC Lars.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

EVE Files Mirror praise be to Chribba!

First up we have an interview with Valerie "Pann" Massey. (she's the one on the right). Blinky should really turn his phone off in interviews though.

Check this out Goonies! Pann really liked the Little Bee's movie

Back in the early days of the game, the game was published by Simon & Schuster Interactive who had some weird ideas about marketing the game

They though making the box look like this was a good idea. They then filled it with garishly colored crap like the manual and finally put out some horrible movies like this one.

We also got Pann to admit that SSI did force the game to release too early!

Even though SSI has now shut down, we manage to snag Mike "Campion" Wallace to hear his side of things. He was the man who brought EVE to SSI and he also was EVE's first producer. He is now the boss of Colony Studio.

After SSI shut down, CCP bought back the rights to publish the game and put it up online to download for free. This was a radical move in 2003!

We then move onto talking to some of the important players in the early days of the game. First up we talked to Trey Ratcliff from John Galt Games. Oldskool players may remember him as Ragnar, the first boss of Taggart Transdimensional Inc.

Just to remind you that Trey is the man in over-all charge of the Web Wars EVE Project.

Sadly we can't get him to talk about Ragnar's Magic Hat, but its OK, Urban remembers!

No look back to 2003 would be the same without a bunch of evil Bastads called m0o, in this history of MMO's nobody has managed to rule an entire game quite like those guys.

we then welcome two of the m0o veterans Stavros for about the 9 millionth time on the show and Vegeta.

Incidentally, the background music we have used for the interview segments is "the shadow of the sun" by Alienhand. Thanks very much for letting us use the tune sir!

Anyway we hope you've enjoyed this mammoth look back at the early days of EVE, we will (with luck) be doing some more shows based on the events of other years. No promises and no time frames, but we would really like to do this.

Lead out tune, "Time Warp" from the Rocky Horror Show.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

P.S. Congratz to Lavista Vista and all the other successful candiates.

EVE Files Mirror praise be to Chribba!

The Tortuga experiment is at an end. While the various alliances make their way back to Empire space, Seleence decides to Disband the MC Good luck in the future to all the former MC Pilots.

SirMolle, the leader of Band of Brothers, cannot help Gloating in poetry form While we may not approve of this, we cannot deny that he has earned the right to.

Former friends IAC and AAA are now at each others throats, AAA are having the best of it making IAC space look like a bow tie.

In the North, the Razor V Insurgency war concludes with Insurgency comming out ahead in ships but with Razor still in control of their space.

LOLMAILS have a new name, they are now FAIL MAILS, but its still the funniest killmails which get sent to us. Fighting for the prize this week we have ZITremedy and his Civillian fitted 'geddon versus Larenic's omni-tanked Myrmidon.

Got a good kill mail for us to ridicule on the show? evemail the link to Urban Mongral or Winterblink!

In Discussion point this week, we raise a glass to 5 years of EVE. Congratulations everyone and heres to the next 5 years!

We also do a little guide to Drugs, Well Combat boosters, to be precise. Give yourself that little edge in Pew-Pew and hope to avoid the side effects.

For homework this week Urban recommends Persian fire the real story behind the film 300.

In Community news, EVE Cast is back!, and kicks of with lots of awesome info with the CSM candidates.

Speaking of the CSM, there is a new forum, Jita Park Speakers Corner.

Voting has begun for the CSM. Registered players can go here to vote .

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Music news! Yet another new radio station start us Tri Radio, The alliance may be gone but the radio continues (for now).

Lead out tune, "Everybody must get stoned" by Bob Dylan.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

EVE Files Mirror praise be to Chribba!

RAZOR Titan Down. Insurgency with a bit of help from Triumvirate. The invasion of RAZOR space if also going pretty well.

Speaking of Triumvirate, Looks like they have lost a few corps whats more the reasoning behind The Illuminati. getting sack is total madness!

In the south, Band of Brothers turn all their attention against Tortuga in general and MC in particular. The empire strikes back?

Former friends IAC and AAA are now at each others throats, AAA are having the best of it making IAC space look like a bow tie.

OOOH new feature! Ladies and Gentlemen, WDA is proud to bring you LOLMAILS, the funniest killmails we see every week. Fighting for the prize this week we have Evil Edna's uber expencive crow versus Jove Witness's omni-tanked Phobos.

Got a good LOLMAIL for us to ridicule on the show? evemail the link to Urban or Winterblink!

In Discussion point this week, We do a little guide to the UI and brackets, not a million miles from what Crovan did on the Drone Bay TBH, but we recorded it before we heard his show.

For homework this week Blinky would like you to check out the documentary America Freedom to Fascism.

In Community news, Urban finds an execlent new podcast from Van Hemlock, which goes by the imaginative name of The Van Hemlock podcast.

Bacon is back! We forgot discuss it for a bit during the recording (I know, we suck!) but the guys at the

Drone Bay did an excellent voice talking about it that we suggest you listen to that instead.

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Music news! New track from Alien Hand, and from Curzon Dax and Dodiez.

Lead out tune, "I'm A Racketeer!" by and from Curzon Dax and Dodiez.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

EVE Files Mirror praise be to Chribba!

In the north Insurgency goes up against RAZON. Pretty even in terms of kills but Insurgency seem to have the edge so far.

In the south, BOB are massing fleets and doing a pretty good job at pushing their enemies out of Querious. Good job at bouncing back!

And while we are on the subject of BOB's enemies IAC have a new president. Something to do with Tryraxx nicking a Wyvern and/or pissing off AAA.

Finally there has been a horrendous amount of tinfoil hattery all over the internet about a certain incident which happened this week. We suggest you check out Wranglers News Article about it.

In Discussion point this week, We discuss the new 'YARR' Divsion, (shouldn't it be called 'YARRT' anyway?) and how they are looking for people to help with the new offical EVE Wiki. Very Cool

We, along with GM Grimmi, also remind you that buying ISK is wrong, except if its through the the offical GTC traders.

For homework this week, Urban decides at the last minute that you should check out Amazon Woman on the Moon!. A remarkable example of an eighties comedy which, against all expectation, is actually funny.

In Community news, Wolfenhex has started a new social networking site called Megathron.com. Its still in beta but give him a shout if you can help out,

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Insurgency FM is a new radio station for the Northern Alliance who are kind enough to syndicate our podcast for us! Thanks guys

Lead out Tune 'So You call this a setback' by Screwloose also check them out their new Album on itunes.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

A big thank you to Zapatero and to Kami for helping with the intro. Notice how Kami starts sounding like John Cleese and ends up sounding like Tommy Cooper!

EVE Files Mirror praise be to Chribba!

MC goes up against Smash Alliance and RoadKill. Looks like smash Kill have put up a good fight though and MC haven't had it all its own way.

In the north, Insurgency capture Phoenix Alliance space very quickly! Good job guys

Jihadswarm continue their war with both miners and good taste, this time producing the most offensive EVE vid ever.

Still its not all going the way of the Goonies as TeddyBr FTW anti goon mercenary army kicks some ass. Amongst his mercs is the fearsome Hello Kitty Initiative.

In Discussion point this week, We discuss Rigs, and how they can make your ship more like the Millenium Falcon.

For homework this week Blinky would like you to check out Lifeforce. ohnoes! Space Vampires!

In Community news, Ginger lets us in on his secret, the one which is not in his pants!

He tell us of the new Mercury Division. of ISD, and put a request for writers to join.

Join our GAX Group Pretty please with nuts on top!

Also check out eve-places.com/ A new site for you to post your EVE related WEB links. Nice job Smakalicious.

Some good parties coming up. Firstly SirMolle invites you all to the BOB invitational on 26-27th June in Slagelse near Copenhagen in Denmark.

Urban will see you in London for The EON Award Party at The Durrell Arms on the Fulham Road on Saturday 5th March.

And for those on the left side of the pond, there is the other half of the EON Awards in Philadelphia. Zapatero will meet you there. The event will take place Dark Horse Pub at 421 S 2nd St

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

EVE Files Mirror praise be to Chribba!

Yep show 32 is a pretty special episode. Firstly its special Urban wussed out and went to bed before the discussions started. What a wimp!

Winterblink is not a man to be daunted by this and so he invites onto the show.

In the red corner we have Crovan the bitter old noob. not to mention one of stars on the The Drone Bay.

In the blue corner, all the way from Australia we have Omber Zombie at least until he had to leave!

In the green corner we have Lavista Vista and Benilopax from the Drone Bay podcast.

They talk as lot about the Council of Stellar management and the voting process.

They also discuss another bitterness filled thread .from Digital Communist, everyone favorite Misanthrope.

Lead out tune 'I've got the power!' by Snap!.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Pah! Who needs Urban!

EVE Files Mirror praise be to Chribba!

Looks like some members former members of IAC were not happy with Tyraxx's return to power, so they formed Oddesey Alliance. They have then headed off to Period Basis to join Tortuga. The rumor mill suggest that IAC will not take this lying down.

The MC head up north to take on PURE. Unfortunatly dj wif, one of their neighbours from Hyrda, losses his Iteron MK 3 filled with some expencive bling at a MC gate gank.

In the north, the Morsus Mihi and Outbreak war grinds on. nobody seems to be in much of a rush.

Tri and KIA go to war with each other, for no good reason. Given that they live miles from each other and are busy with their own games, we don't expect to see a lot of fighting.

In Discussion point this week, Council of Stellar Management voting begins on the 5th May.

We are still pretty much unsure about this, but we will hopfully help with debates from the candidates. Still the council is getting some attention from mainstream news.

Also check out the Video from fanfest presented by Xhagen and Dr EyjoG.

For Homework this week Urban would like you to read Matter by Iain M Banks. The final Culture novel he will write.

Join our GAX Group Pretty please with nuts on top!

Want to check out just how good EVE new graphics look on a high end rig? check out Lacrimosa the new video for Dire Lauthris. Looks like Loxy has compition!

Good job on the Touramentto everyone involved. Make sure you check out the amaizing final match. Congratz to Evoke

We welcome one of New Edens finest composers, Alienhand onto the show, and we discuss his music and inspirations

Lead out tune 'Forever Lost (Introless)'*** by AlienHand.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

EVE Files Mirror praise be to Chribba!

Some members of Goonswarm have decided to rename themselves Jihad Swarm' and declare war on miners in empire space. Some Denizens of New Eden, are not very happy but we personally don't mind at all.

In the north, it looks like Morsus Mihi and Outbreak have gone to war. We rather like both alliances so its hard to know who to cheer for,

In Discussion point this week, The tourney is back. We discuss the first weekend matches and tatics

We also talk about the EVETV production. In general we like it, but a few things perplex us

For Homework this week Blinky would like you to check out the Dead like me. A black comedy which he likes a lot

Join our GAX Group Pretty please with nuts on top!

Make sure you also check out Crovan, Crazy Kinux and Alsedrech The Drone Bay. But guys! Why are you talking about urban Naked?

In community news we review Tanx0r's new improved map. Also we check out EVE Tribune every week

Don't forget the tourney pic's on Blinky's flicker page. Sexy shots of sexy ships!

Fancy watching the final day of the tourney on a big screen with a pint and your fellow pod pilots for company? Urban and Imperius Blackheart are setting up a EVE meet on 9th March in Omega Sektor in the middle of Birmingham. Bump the thread and Urban hopes to see you there.

Lead out tune 'Space Pirates theme'*** by Chris Banks.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Show 29, Sorry about the problems with the hosting for the last Episode, Still the file is fixed and Urban and Brent are playing their debt to society.

TWD of Evolution shows off some snazzy artwork and makes a rather good post about BOB (currently) successful defense of NOL-M9. However his knowledge of history is a little bit off comparing the battle to the Alamo though, given that in reality the Texans lost that one.

In the north, Triumverate are having a scrap with smashkill and friends! We knew the North couldn't stay calm for long,

In Discussion point, We invite Benilopax and Lavista Vista who will soon be starting the Warp Drive Active: Industy Podcast. onto the show

These guys then go and discuss Dr EyjoG's second Quarterly Economic Newsletter. There are many points of interest to get through

For Homework this week Urban would like you to check out the Gattaca. A nightmarish future where your genetics determine everything about you.

Join our GAX Group Pretty please with nuts on top!

Make sure you also check out Crovan, Crazy Kinux and Alsedrech The Drone Bay. But guys! Why are you talking about urban Naked?

The Fifth Alliance tournament is fast approaching and the Groups are now sorted We are very glad to hear that champions are back in. Have a great time everyone!

Fancy watching the final day of the tourney on a big screen with a pint and your fellow pod pilots for company? Urban and Imperius Blackheart are setting up a EVE meet on 9th March in Omega Sektor in the middle of Birmingham. Bump the thread and Urban hopes to see you there.

Blinky gives out the secrets of his immortal Taranis.

Lead out tune 'Black Betty' by Spiderbait.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

The War against BOB has slowed down for a bit due to the effects of sovereignty. However on the f13 forums a rumor starts that Molle has handed over the reigns While this would be fun, we are pretty sure this isn't the case. What certainly isn't fun is Goon's rather nasty attacks on DICE fleet commander LadyScarlet. Not Cool guys! According to the f13 forum again CCP have taken a dim view on those launching the attacks.

STOP PRESS! Red Titan Down! A sign of resurgence from Band of Brothers or too little too late?

As discussed last show, AAA finish their war with KOS by kicking them out of 0.0. Knights of the Southern Cross have now disbanded. What will AAA do next though?

In Discussion point, we welcome back WDA's equivalent of the Stig - Crovan! Mr C now has a An awesome blog. Go check it out

Crovan provides an in-depth guide to Electronic Warfare We also discuss the upcoming changes including those mentioned in Tuxford's Blog.

For homework this week Blinky would like you to look at Johnny the homicidal maniac! A wonderfully violent surreal comic!

Apart from playing EVE, this week Blinky and Urban have been playing Call of Duty 4 Which is so good that it makes them Swear so much the bleep machine melts!

Ooops! Due to technical issues we weren't able to do our whole review of Far from Homeworld Comics. To make up for it we pimp the comics again. Its still a great job ArmaggedonPSA and keep up the good work

Check out some excellent EVE inspired music at AlienHand. We think it fits really well with the in-game music

Join our GAX Group Pretty please with nuts on top! Post in our thread for questions to ask the PVP experts in our tournament preview show

The EVETV team are heading off to Iceland for the upcoming Tournament! If you have any questions to ask CCP Developers post them in this thread Good luck in getting your question answered!

Did we mention that Crovan has a blog?. We discuss it again and Urban gets inspired to tell the world about Grand Admiral Newbie!

The EON Awards are coming Place your votes in the various categories. Of course we wouldn't want to influence your voting in any way

Speaking of Blogs, EON Editor Zapatero has one too!.C-C-CH-Check it out!

Lead out tune 'Elected' by Alice Cooper.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

P.S. Vote for us

Yes times look Bad for the Bobbits, Despite slowing down their enemies they have still lost a ton of space, being out numbered 10-1 and loosing a a Nyx along with a ton of other ships, Goon swarm titans trespassing inside their POS bubbles. Its enough to make Sir Molle start acting Churchillian.

Not everyone is busy fighting BOB though. AAA and KOS are busy kicking seven bells out of each other, really for no good reason!

In Discussion point, EVE Moves to Steam. Seems like a good business to Us

We should point out that despite some peoples complains, you don't need Steam to download and Play EVE. You do however need it to play Portal and therefore you haven't got it already you should go and get it from here!

For Homework this week Urban would like you to check out the Astronomy Cast Podcast Its an excellent show filled with lots of execlent information about our universe.

In Addition check out some awesome websites. Firstly check out Massively.com especially the stuff written by the awesome Michael Zenke and in addition check Stratics especially the stuff from Dana Massey.

In 'What else have you been playing' both of the guys have been playing Burnout Paradise.

Join our GAX Group Pretty please with nuts on top!

The Fifth Alliance tournament is fast approaching and the Teams have been announced With a lot of rabbleage from many people including Urban. The tournament experts have also been announced. Have a great time in Iceland everyone!

Urban still hasn't got his EON Issue 10 hopefully next week!

Blinky has a competitor! Check out the excellent  Far from Homeworld Comics. Great job ArmaggedonPSA and keep up the good work

Lead out tune 'Avenging Angels' by Space.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Things are looking bleak for Band of Brothers. A quick glance at the influence map Will show that they are being squeezed by Bruce, Sons of Tangra and friends in Fountain, IRON, Razor, Brotherhood and IAC in Querious meanwhile in and around Period Bias the massive scrap between BOB and the Tourtugaites continues.

We also give props to Dwight Hammerhead from Sons of Tangra. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us and all the best for your alliance in 2008!

Nice Try Mr stupidly named Alt (POST WITH YOUR MAIN!) but I'm afraid your not fooling anyone!

Speaking of Alliance prospects for 2008, Check out Hardis Thread regarding how you see the various Alliances doing this year and post your views!

We welcome back Crovan from Eternity INC. He goes through a guide on the complicated issue of gunnery concentrating on subjects such as Opital and Falloff, Signature Radius, Turret tracking speeds and Transversal velocity.

Also check out CCP's guide to tracking which has some very cool flash graphs. Along with the subject of tracking, Crovan goes though the long promised guide to speed tanking.

Finally Crovan attempts to get himself sacked from the MC by pointing out how Seleene's hot phone lines make him rich and demanding we link to the video of KIAEDDZ shaking his funky stuff.

For homework Blinky wants you to check out the Korean gangster fest Old Boy.

WDA IS BIGGER THAN WORLD OF WARCRAFT! Well at least in terms of the relative size of our GAX Groups If you haven't already joined, head over there and check it out

EON Issue 10 is now out and contains a fanfest DVD! We will be reviewing it as soon as we receive our copies.

We get a plug from EVECAST.TV. They have made a few changes to the show but the quality is still high. VampireZim is looking for people to record some little pieces for him. If you can help head over to the site and see what you can do!

Lead out tune Bob the Builder.**

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

**Right, from now on Blink is banned from picking the leadout tune!

MC and some of their buddies grab period basis in an operation called Tortuga Naturally BOB, the previous owners of Period Basis, aren't taking this lying down and lots of ships go boom.

We welcome Jade Constantine back to the forums. Good to see you again.

In the North has apparently got a bit dull for Triumverate so they return to the south to continue their scrap with CVA

Blinky and Urban tell their highlights and lowpoints of 2007 in EVE and post their hopes for 2008. If you have any thoughts on what your highlights and low lights, post this in This thread on the WDA GAX Group.

Kieron writes a Dev Blog about the changes to forum moderation. More sane forum moderation can only be a good thing in our book!

For homework Urban wants you to check out True Romance. A quality film with a magnificent scene between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken.

For those missing EVETV, Don't cry! Check out this EVECAST.TV. These guys have started really strongly and we want to wish them all the best for the future. We are already hooked!

A fun little flash game called EVE offline to help you pass those dull downtime hours

And while we are on the subject of games, check out Tarminic's new top down shooter game Play EVE: Downtime Madness Good job sir, but its a shame Urban really sucks at it!

Lead out tune 'Collection' by Hoover's Ooover.**

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

**Look we know the band has a stupid name and their website is in Japanese, the tune is still total awesomeness!

The final lot of interviews from fanfest all you people who are considering applying for a job with CCP games.

The first thing you should do is check the CCP Jobs page. There you will find information regarding the current vacancies for CCP.

First up we talk to David Bockman the HR manager for CCP/Whitewolf. CCP are looking to hire people to work on both EVE the other project.

Of course you don't speak to HR managers to get the unbridled truth on working for a company, so we then have a chat with recently employed developers CCP Atropos and CCP Tryphon, You may know them better with the names they had before they were Dev's, as they were Hinik and Ifni.

If you are looking to work at CCP, you chances will be helped by being part of the volunteers program. Check out the ISD recruitment page, for more information

Finally, if you would like to work for CCP but don't want to give up you day job, why not work as a freelance mission writer? Urban chats to 'the mission dude' Scott Holden, about this role. Go to the mission writer recruitment page if this interests you.

Lead out tune 'career opportunities' by The Clash

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

First up a big thank you to Kami and Haroldium from the CoMutiny Podcast for helping us out in the intro.

With the boot.ini issue and the known issues page. being the size of war and peace, well it hasn't been the easiest week.

To show solidarity with the suffering masses in EVE, the guys drink shot after shot of Brennivin the only substance in the universe which tastes worse than Rotten Shark. Lots of issues means lots of shots.

Its not all bad though, Blinky has some awesome screen shots of the new graphics in his Flickr Page.

To be brutally honest the in-game news has been a bit of a blur, something about MC taking a contract on BRUCE, Red alliance titans causing trouble and KIA Eddz's ego gets pimped a bit more.

For homework blinky wants you to check out Battle Royale A masterful film what ever your state of inebriation.

To make the new grapics even sexier why not try nHancer, as recommended by Winterblink/p>

Also check out the new and awesome GAX site We have set up a new warp drive active group. The site is currently invite only, so give urban a shout and he will send you an invitation. Great work guys

Lead out tune 'Black Flag Days' by Eve to Adam.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

P.S. Check out Blinky's adventrues in drunkeness he did after the show!

Urban has been working such long hours that the only booze he has is some Brennivin he got in Iceland. Blinky joins him for a glass of pure horribleness.

Urban interviews Tony Gonzales the author of the upcoming EVE Novel. He does sound scarilly like Tony Soprano though.

Next up its Richie Shoemaker AKA Zapatero the Editor. We discuss Issue 9 and what's coming up in issue 10 before running off to a fanfest.

Finally we get to talk to the Transgaming guys Who ported EVE from Windows to the Mac and Linux. More power to them!.

Lead out tune 'Paperback Writer' by Mystery Bloom.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

EVE Breaks the 200,000 mark for paying subscribers! Many congratulations to everyone at CCP and here's to the next 200K!

Seems that ISS and BOB have had a bit of a falling out. We speculate as to why BOB are getting in fights with so many of their former buddies.

Just when you think the north was becoming (relatively) sane, MDK declare war On Hydra. We predict much pain

Terra Incognita and FLA alliance merge with the usual unhappiness from former members. Just to cap a truly crappy few days for Hydra, it looks like the new alliance is also looking to kill them.

It looks like the weekly EVETV show is going into hiatus for a bit. We would like to thank the EVETV team for all their efforts and hope to see you back in action in February.

For homework this week, Urban would like you to check out the genius that is Turkish Star Wars.

Lots of community news!, A new EVE Alliance Map from tanx0r, A Rags to Riches Contestfrom the wizard of Duke Street.

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**STOP PRESS** Super sexy new EVE trailer showing off the Trinity 2 graphics enhancements.

Lead out tune 'Common People' by William Shatner.**

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

**we take no responsibility or any vomiting induced by this tune

First up Urban has a chat with Noah Ward AKA CCP Hammerhead, the lead designer for EVE. Urban demonstrates his utter noobishness by getting the name of the patch wrong! We talk about Drone bandwidth, the fighter changes, Titans, Tech2 Battleships, Torpedo changes, Graphics engine update and the Ambulation Project.

More material on the fanfest has been put up by the fine folks at EVETV. You really have to check out the recordings of the key-notes they have put up-.

Blinky points out that senior citizens in Canada are looked after while in the UK they are forced to sing for our amusement.

Next up is the interview with CCP Dev's Lemousse and Eris Discordia who discuss Ambulation in great detail. YAAAAAY there will be (something like) Poker in Ambulation! We are still worried about the uncanny valley though.

Please give us I tunes reviews

Lead out tune 'These boots were made for walking' by The Hobos.**

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

**A special choice in honor of Ambuluation!

BOB and their friends have now fully withdrawn from paragon soul and Fetabolas, leaving the area for Redswarm to walk in. A future invasion into Period Basis will be difficult though.

Urban listens to a load of rumors about why MC are in carebear mode and what they will be up to in the future

In the North, Triumverate sells off a chunk of their newly actioned space to various others we wonder who they will be picking on next!

Tons of news about fanfest! Check out the awesome recordings of they Keynotes, thanks to EVETV who also win the award for the coolest shirts at fanfest.

The lads discuss their highlights including seeing just how friendly MC and Goons were getting in Jita and meeting Tony Gonzales and hearing about the novel.

Also there has been tons of coverage on fanfest make sure you check out Blinky's Flickr and his Blog talking all about fanfest!

RoXoR totally kicked ass

Lots of special shows coming up in the near future when we put up and discuss the interviews we did while we were there

Lead out tune 'hljomalind' by Sigur Ros.**

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

** Blinky's choice again, don't blame me!

Band of Brothers and their friends evacuate the Feythabolis region leaving it to RedSwarm. The Goonies aren't satisfied and continue to push on into period bias.

In the North, Triumverate continues to crush You what, who finally try to throw in the towel It looks like the recently homeless frege will be making a grab for whats left of Youwhat space in cloud Ring.

CommanderInChief attempts to merge some of the smaller alliances into The United Alliances Of Eve (UAE) We think their chances of survival is roughly the same as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

Happy Birthday to Eternity Inc. and Blinky says sorry for not making your banner.

For discussion this week, We welcome back Crovan who goes though the new Tech 2 battleships. In fact he covers the battleships in such magnificent detail that we are literally speechless!

Homework this week is Blinky choice, he goes for Harsh Relam. A pretty cool from the pen of Chris Carter.

Awesome new Outbreak Movie called Re:dux. You are commanded to check it out!

Crazy Kinux posts on his blog about a big announcement coming up at fanfest. It involves John Galt Games and a former front man of Taggart Transdimensional. We start to speculate about what it all could mean.

The art book contest as finished and Urban has a new sig! Listen in to hear the top 10!

Lead out tune 'Immigrant Song' by the Led Zeppelin.

2 DAYS TILL FANFEST! SEE YOU IN ICELAND!

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

CCP discover a sercuity breech in the database, which necessitated a full shut down for 9 hours. Rumors of a rollback proved false though!

The MC takes a break from the massive war in the south and presumably went back to mining.

A new corp called Goonicide appears sworn to take down their rather numerous enemy, Teh Goons! We decide to put our money on the goonies for this one!

Triumverate are opening a giant can of whoopass you what. We both prove to be Nostradamus like sages with our predictive powers.

The establishment are back with a fleet of motherships! have fun with them while you still can guys!

For discussion this week, We looked at the capital changes were a bit shocked by CCP Zulupark's Blog and still shocked when we read CCP Nozh's flollow up blog. To help make sense of it all we invite teh 1337 capital pilots TBone and danneh onto the show to discuss the implications.

For homework this week urban wants you to check out Agent ZigZag by Ben Macintyre. The true story of WW2 double agent Eddie Chapman.

The art book compo is still open till the end of Saturday so hurry and make sigs! The magnificent Ineve.net surpasses 50,000 characters!

Lead out tune 'The Irish Rover' by the Pogues.

1 WEEK TILL FANFEST!!

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Show 16, Both Blinky and Urban are being dutiful sons, looking after their respective parents stuff while they are away on their hols. Urban Breaks his laptop though.

BOB demand tons of ISK from M.pire, M.Pire proceed to tell the bobbits where to go and heads off to Goon space.

The Lads reject the fact that they have an anti goon bias, we are just suspicious when some members of Goonswarm post blatantly faked emails which leads to the whole alliance being treated with suspicion.

IAC are doing rather poorly in the war, having lost control of FAT-GP, and have now stated a rather belated NBSI in Catch space.

Triumverate, Morhus Mihi and RAZOR are doing well in the north. Keep up the good work guys.

The lads do a very brief guide to 0.0 for those brave souls who are looking to move out there.

For homework this week, Blinky would like you to check out The Fountain a crazy tale from Darren Aronofsky.

Lots more Fanfest information! Including the face melding compo and signups for the PVP tournament has started.

Blinky interviews Matt Milberger from CCP/White Wolf about the New Art Book And Blinky reviews the copy CCP sent him

**ART BOOK COMPETITION**

The lads run a competition where a lucky listener will win their very own signed copy of the art book. To win you just have to make the best sig for Urban to use on the EVE Forums. The Sig regulations are In Rule 3. Host the sig's on EVE Files and send the links in this tread, via eve mail to us or email the link to podcast(at)winterblink(dot)com .

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Lead out tune "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton. (End Theme from Valves Portal.

Show 15, A week late due to Urban and Blinky real life's getting the way of podcasting! But never fear, we are back!.

MC loose their Titan, But massive battles continue in FAT-6P.

In the constant madness of the North, Triumvirate set their sights on their neighbors You What.

Also in the North, FATAL closes its doors good bye and thanks for all the fish guys!

Taggart Transdimensional Inc celebrates their fifth birthday and Goons make some rather suspicious claims about Crom.

The lads check out Dr.EyjoG economics dev blog about ship building and discuss Eris Discordia's blog about map improvements.

For homework this week, Urban wants you to check out The Future is Unwritten a documentary about The Clash's front man Joe Strummer.

Lots of community news! EVETV free for ever. The Power's of two offer is back for those with multiple accounts, 3 lovely ladies from CCP do an audio dev blog about the fanfest and both EVE Search and the Warp Drive Active Comic have new and improved RSS goodness!.

An excellent new service from the awesomely named Draven Nightblood. The EVE Tube site is now up for hosting your videos!

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Lead out tune "London Calling" by The Clash.

Show 14, better late than never! Urban has moved house and hasn't ironed all the bugs out of his sound setup yet (It does get better during the course of the show though) He suffers in work from a horrible obsolete programming language.

Huge scrap in XID between BOB and Redswarm, BOB gives a pep talk to R I S E, It doesn't to have done a whole lot of good though.

In the constant madness of the North, it looks like Fallen Souls have been kicked out everywhere they used to own up there.

EVE university gets a load of war dec's from people who like killing noobs!

At the request of Wilhelm we do a noob guide to tanking. For more information check out the excellent EVE Tanking made by Nyphur.

For homework this week, Blinky chooses a bit of classic Anime Voices of a Distant Star by Makoto Shinkai.

EVETV Episode 13 is free We hope this is the start of things to come. We also like the Brightcove player a lot more than the Jalipo player.

The Sisters of EVE Fanfest passes are out! Let your spouse escape the uber geekness in the convention centre!

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Lead out tune "What a Beautiful Day" by Levellers.

We kick of unlucky show 13 by talking about our weeks. Blinky has been partaking in more IAC kicking in the great war in the south while Urban has found a new place to live and will be moving soon(tm).

The lads discuss Faster than light comms, sound from pods, and the new EVE Chronicles

Tyraxx Looses his Aeon mothership which he nicked from BOB a few weeks ago. Easy come easy go!

Meanwhile BOB looks like they are performing a scorched earth retreat from Omist.

In the constant madness of the North, it looks like Fallen Souls are loosing quite a few of their recently gained systems.

For the first time in the history of CAOD, a thread appears where everyone is being nice!!! Even Burn Eden!. Many congratulations to HUN for making history a second time

Oveur writes a hufe dev blog about the sexiness which will be in Revelations 3.0.

Sadly though, CCP Ginger tells us in his Dev blog, that there won't be factional warfare.

For homework this week, Urban would like you to check out police squad! One of the best TV shows ever.

Thanks to the joys of Skype we are able to introduce a new feature. Call Us, and leave a message on what you would like to see in Rev 3. Our Skype name is Warp.Drive.Active

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Lead out tune "Stick 'em Up" by Quarashi.

After the madness of the tournament , we are back to doing a 'normal' show. Massive congratulations to Hun Reloaded.

We check out the sexy new Trinity 2 vids which CCP have released.

The IAC adds Band of Borthers too their already huge list of enemies, if Shrike is to be believed.

Smash and ROADKILL nab a station, Burn Eden war dec BIG Corp over a gambling disagreement and Hadean Drive Yards celebrates 5 years in EVE .

We totally ridicule a moronic demand from somebody who got scammed by an isk farmer and complained about it.

For homework this week, Blinky selects the movie Spartan , Just don't read the back of the box!

In 'what else have you been doing this week', Urban has completed Bioshock and declares it to be the best single player game since Deus Ex.

Meanwhile Blinky is still loving Warhawk on his PS3.

The EVETV Guys and Girls did a great job at broadcasting the tournament and we give massive thanks to everyone especially WCIX for making the streaming work perfectly this time. We were blown away by the quality of the in game camera work.

The booze on the final day leads to quality programming including Stav's role play rant and excessive shoe on head!

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Lead out tune "The girl from Ipanema" by KOMPRESSOR**.

**Don't blame me for this, Blinky choose it

**WARNING - THIS SHOW CONTAINS SILLINESS**

The Warp Drive Active podcast returns once again to bring you news and perky commentary on everyone's "favorite" MMO, EVE Online.

So we are now at the half way stage of the tournament and its we hand out school reports to all the Groups and Teams.

To make it fair we drag EVETV experts Stavros from CI and XxAngelxX away from their life of booze and debauchery in Iceland grade the teams.

Laugh at Urban and his massive nerd rage caused by MC withdrawal from the tournament, while Blinky tries desperately to justify it.

Watch Stav desperately flirt with Angel with little success as she seems to be only interested in committing acts of violence against him.

Discover the proclamations which Stavros will be making once he becomes Amarr Emperor.

Most importantly discover the dangers of traffic cones, the herding powers of Tyraxx Thorrk's pink hat, the bathroom hogging prowess of KIAEddz and why its very important to check if the show isn't broadcasting before you start saying naughty things.

Beyond that, even more than usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Lead out tune "The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Massive thanks to Stav and Angel for putting up with us and doing such a great job, Have fun on the last weekend!

Next show will be out tuesday morning

Urban has another hellish week at work, which delays the podcast a bit (sorry guys), While Winterblink catches Tyraxx (not in his Aeon though) and helps in laying the smack down on IAC.

Massive Scrap in BKG between RAZOR,Morsus Mihi ,Pure, Triumvirate & CO VS Cult Of War, FATAL, M.Pire and Fallen Souls.

AS usual the massive battle leads to an attack from the lag monster.

The MC have now blown up over 1 trillion ISK worth of enemy ships according to Massive their killboard.

CCP have been doing the rounds at the various conferences , and we cherry pick what we consider the most interesting news.

Lead Designer, Noah Ward gets interviewed by Warcry where he tells us about the upcoming Tech 2 stealth battle ships and the Trinty 2 graphics engine.

Noah Ward then teams up with PR and Communications Director, Valerie Massey for their interview with Tenton hammer where they talk about Ambulation.

For homework this week, Urban would like you to watch The Boys from Brazil, a really excellent but some what disturbing film.

In the new "what else are you doing this week" section, Blinky has been playing and enjoying Warhawk on his PS3.

The tournament returns and we really want to congratulate CCP and EVETV on streaming properly. this time. We discuss what we are enjoying as part of the show.

The MC, target Urban with a real tech 2 kick to the balls.

Beyond that, just the usual random sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Lead out tune "Weapon of mass destruction" by Faithless.

**REMEMBER TO CHECK OUT OUR SPECIAL TOURNAMENT hALF TERM REPORT ON THURSDAY**

So the tournament is about to kick off again and Urban and Blinky really wanted to bring in depth and intelligent analysis on the Groups and Teams.

Unfortunately they then sabotage their own plan by inviting Verone from Veto and KIAEddZ from KIA onto the show.

Verone does go through the tournament groups giving firm but fair ratings for each of the teams, Eddz smack talks pretty much everyone Urban tries and fails to pronounce the names of most of the Alliances (even the ones which are in English) and Winterblink messes around with his anagram generator.

Find out which is the group death, which is the other group of death and which is the group of meh.

Massive thanks to Verone and Eddz for putting up with us and doing such a great job, Have a great time in Iceland guys!

The big war in the south gets bigger,CVA joins with IAC While for big alliances join with MC and FIX

MC also have a new Ragnarok class Titan

The Freelancer Alliance claims they are going to head to BOB space We wait for them to get swatted.

CCP change the forums and the volunteer program.

AND MUCH MORE

Urban is wracked with guilty about some advice he gave to his his friends at the Comutiny podcast, While Winterblink watches IAC's Utterly futile attack in 49U

Tyraxx Thorrk swipes an Aeon from Evolution. With all the bad news for BOB in the past few weeks, we wonder if BOB is loosing it.

The Goonies celebrate a glorious 14th August , We hope they had CaKe to celebrate.

The player news centre completely ignores any of the real news and publishes a propaganda piece about a bunch of nobodies.

Big changes are happening to they way you fuel a POS. Reinforced mode gets thumped by the nerf bat.

Mineral compression gets a big nerf as well. All is not lost though as CCP unveils the awesomely named Rorqual new capital class mining vessel

We wanted to do a noob guide for starting a corporation, but frankly we know nothing about how to. Thankfully Crovan is on hand to give all the details.

For homework this week Urban sets something really awsome which everyone should check out. (more is available here).

Beyond that, just the usual getting sidetrackage, gibbering and tinfoil hattery.

Lead out tune "Out Of Sync" by Devo.**

Urban and Winterblink have both been having stressful weeks at work

In in-game news its Silly season with no major news stories happening.

The FREGE Alliance have been doing the most interesting thing of anyone this week by annoying the crap out of BOB, BodyCollector shouldn't post while drunk though.

The lads feel FREGE would fit in well at the ambassadors reception.

We correct an editing error I made last week regaring the IAC V FIX & MC war. Tyraxx continues to loose ships though.

We also really would like CCP to make an official Killboard.

We do a noob guide for agent running, for those who want to be obscenely rich.

For homework this week Winterblink would like you to read Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson.

We intive EVETV experts Stavros and Ifni onto the show to discuss the upcomming Tournament.

We are all highly impressed with EVETV's new invention The Caldari Sleipnir. Winterblink finds it especially inspiring.

We still really hope Band of Brothers doesn't win this years tournament! Give somebody else a chance guys!

The first WDA T-Shirt contest has a winner! One lucky listener now has an alternative to being naked!

Lead out tune "Download this song" by MC Lars.

Urban and Winterblink start the show by spending an inordinate amount of time discussing their hatred of startrek and trekkies.

Winterblink buys himself a Playstation 3 which he rather likes while Oblivion still continues to consume Urbans life.

BOB and the Redswarm alliance have a big time scrap with nearly 1200 ships destroyed already.

The IAC V Fix + MC + Axe war continues to hot up nicely IAC put up another outpost which leads to but Tyraxx Thorrk looses another shed load of ships.

In the north the Sparta alliance disbands with its territory becoming property of Fallen Souls. We wonder what the other northern alliances will try and grab.

CCP Fendahl posts a dev blog about changes to Nos. The lads plan of hitting SISI to check out some Nute-Dom setups

The same Dev Blog has got the changes to Khanid Ships which causes much Armarr rage. Winterblink learns a new word.

A lot of people, including Urban, like the homework assignment Winterblink set last week, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. If you do our homework assignment please do write and tell us.

This week for homework Urban would like you to read The player of games by Iain M Banks, because the Culture universe is so damn cool.

Griefwatch Killboards changes hands as the current owner can no longer run it, we take our hats off to Battle Clinic for stepping up.

The rules for the 4th PVP tournament rules have been published by GM Nova. We worry that we won't be seeing enough expensive factions ships going boom.

Your chance to win a special prize courtesy of the Warp Drive active podcast. You could be the proud owner of a unique Warp Drive Active T Shirt similar to the one being modeled (rather unsuccessfully) by Kieron Check out the podcast for the question and send your answers to podcast(at)winterblink.com or evemail Winterblink

Lead out tune "Ghostbusters" by Attaboy Skip.

Winterblink helps blow up a carrier whilst Urban has got himself a Xbox 360 with Oblivion which is taking up way too much of his time.

Tetra accuses us of being "Sponsored by BOB and co..." which is a bit confusing given that most of the Band of Brothers stories we report on tend to be about things going wrong for them (Shrike's Titan, Flatliners Theft).

The patch makes the server go boom which leads to Much geek rage .

The MC have been Hired by Fix to join them in their war against IAC. AXE are also getting in on the action.

Tyraxx Thorrk, the big boss of IAC, looses yet another ultra rare ship.

The first Soverignty level 3 systems are now in place, Cyno jammers rule!

We interview and get interviewed by Ivan Moon from EVE Tribune, well most of the time we just argued like old ladies.

Our friends over at the Shut Up we're Talking podcast finally get the noob guide they asked for. This time we go through the basics of starting off in PVP as a tackler.

For homework this week Blinky wants you too read Neverwhere by Neil Gainham

EVE Fitting Tool is an execlent and everyone should use it!

Lead out tune "Fett's Vette" by MC Chris.

Winterblink is finding Canada so hot his skin is melting while Urban (and everyone else in the UK) is plaged with floods.

IAC's Outpost egg

Ex M0o Pilot pilot Flatliner attempts to wreck the Band of Brothers BBQ by pillaging 300 Billion ISK worth of stuff from Evolution. We hope Sir Molle didn't choke on his hotdog!"

FIX were cooking a Nyx when along came AAA to blow it up. Urban and Blinky respond to the news by having a really random conversation.

The Red Alliances loss of couple of systems inspires Urban to poetry.

Its Patch day on Tuesday so make sure you train long skillz. The lads discuss the patch for a little bit and before going to talk about more cowbell! for ages!

Urban didn't think too much about Equlibrium the homework assignment homework assignment Blinky set last week, but his homework assigment is a movie which is glorious in every way.

EVE TV continues to improve, this week we are greeted by newly promoted Lead Designer Hammerhead (Congratz Dude!) although he does look disconsertingly like Jesus.

The latest issue of EON Magazine is reviewed by the lads although Urban curses Zapatero for descrating the glory of his Stavros article.

Winterblink tries to pat the team on the back about the podcast, Urban kicks him in the shin in response.

This week, Winterblink talks briefly on his uneventful week in EVE, while Urban continues to build his House of lies, one brick at a time.

Goonswarm's titan fund gets pillaged by their former boss Remedial, hilarious the same one they voted in as CEO of the year.

The northern regions of EVE continue to a place of madness.

Richard (Zapatero) from MMM Publishing graces us with his presence, and we return the favor in kind by grilling him about all things EVE TV, Good Cop - Bad Cop style.

A listener's opinionated response about Urban's The Handmaid's Tale downtime assigment makes Urban goes insane with raging rageness.

Winterblink comes up with his own homework assigment for everyone to watch Equilibrium, a feel good film about oppressive societies who solve their problems through drugs and violence.

PVP Tournement hosts are announced, and we've got the names. Well, the forums have the names, we just talk about them.

We lament about the streaming buffering issues from the last tournament and hope to god this one goes better

Those dudes from Shut Up, We're Talking are nice guys for mentioning us, so we return the favor by saying nice things about them.