EVE Online Postcards for Monday June 8th, 2009

And the Gates of Heaven lit up...

It's been a while since I last did a postcard post. The one I did was back in October of last year, and that of a stargate against the background of a star and planet. So as I take the baton and start running this series again, I thought it would be appropriate to cover that subject again.

The following screenshots were taken earlier this evening, as I travel 20-some jumps from Khanid Prime to Zirsem.

Inspiring n'est-ce pas?

See them all on my flickr accoount.

EVE Online Speedlinking for Saturday June 6th, 2009

It's been a very busy 2 weeks in the EVE blogging community. Indeed, early on Monday was added almost 300 new EVE blogs to my EVE Blogroll. The vast majority of the new blogs came over from Podlogs and Gamescribe, 2 new blogging platforms geared towards EVE Bloggers. Usually I list the new blogs on my Speedlinking posts, but in this case I've decided to part with tradition and only add those blogs which the owners have taken the effort to either post a comment on the Blogroll, or have written to me personally, letting me know about their new EVE blog. That's the list of blogs you'll find below.

Amongst the new blogs of the last 2 weeks:

• Break Vol
• The Eyes of the Hawk
• Dropping out of Warp
• EVE on High
• The Maverick Minmatar
• Blogganeers
• Talk Unafraid
• EvE Chronicles by Von Richtburg
• Ashireka's Adventures in EVE
• Adventures in Mission Running
• Declarations of War
• Phoenix Corporation (The)
• Soulprayer.de
• VelociLogic
• Revenge of the Voice (The)
• Yarrbear Tales
• Kai Honsou
• Inanity and Doom

Some in the EVE blogging community have voiced their concerns that so many new blogs might not be the best for the health of our nascent community. I amongst them, was certainly concerned enough to mention that quite a few of these new blogs might not be around for long, and may already have followed the Dodo. None though, have been as loud and elaborate in voicing their opinion then long time EVE blogger Spectre over at EVE Newb. You just have to head over and read "Your blog sucks". There's no way to summarize that kind of post!

New EVE Blogging Community Monthly Extravaganza

• Calling all EVE Bloggers - If you have the writers itch!

EVE QEN Q1-2009

• 2009 is a good year .... for EVE (pdf)
• Kirith's Highlits of the 48 page document

New EVE Novel (upcoming)

• EVE: The Burning Life (Amazon.com) (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.uk.co)

Various

• @chainercygnus brings some interesting ideas to EVE Login Security in EVE & You
• Station Trading Guide (via Kai Honsu)
• Drone Bay Episode #21 Special Fanfest '09 edition
• Fly Reckless Episode #32
• Podded is back after a hiatus with a few podcast under its wings in May (via @Mynxee)
• Your corp ship maintenance array and you, Letrange explores wormholes, ships and POSs
• Blinky on the next Alliance Tourney
• Over at the EVE Tribune Kirith's Fighting Spacecraft
• Shae explains the merrits of Interior Design for the Discerning Corporation over at the Hellcats
• The CSM results were made public and discussed here and there in the community
• Nyphur covers EVE Online's aggression mechanics in his lastest EVE Evolved series over at Massively.
• Roc reports on the success of Capsuleer!
• There were some late addition to our latest (8th) EVE Blog Banter, so make sure to head back and have a read!
• Check out EVE Online Postcards for some amazing screenshots of New Eden!
• Scopique explains the ins and out of living on the other side of a wormhole in Wormhole Shenanigans.

Non-EVE Gaming news items (mostly E3 stuff!)

• Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a plethora of great articles on Mass Effect 2, Star Wars The Old Republic, Diablo III and on the now FREE BattleForge!
• The Gaming-Griefer intelligently explores the dark and dirty world of violence in video games.
• GameSetWatch highlights the best news of the (E3) week.
• Last but not least, Hawty McBloggy (aka @bsangel) has some Halo coolness for us and some Project Natal funnies!

There you folks, see you again in 2 weeks. Well in regards to the Speedlinking that is! :D

The Drone Bay: Episode 21 - Fanfest 2009 Preview Special

Recorded earlier this week, the latest Drone Bay podcast was released today. Though I couldn't join Crovan and Alsedrech as the show was recorded during my work day, my podcast mates did a good job torturing the 3 devs present to get the most information from them on the next EVE Online Fanfest! Well, seducing might be a better term than torture.

Having been at Fanfest myself, I highly recommend that you attend if not this year, at least once! Have a listen and you'll get a brief idea of the amount of fun, facts and friends you'll discover if you decided to attend the Party at the top of the world!

Here's a few links to my account of the fanfest last year!

• EVE Fanfest Day 1 - Recap and more
• EVE Fanfest Day 2 - Lots more goodies!
• EVE Fanfest Day 3 - Highlights

Good to hear you guys again!