Fanfest 2015 holds the answers
Greetings from Iceland, Internet dwellers. I’m in a hotel room in Reykjavík eating a pepperoni dog and drinking a ginger beer. Someone wrote a super friendly message on the wall just outside my window. There’s a handle of vodka to my right; I don’t know who put it there, but it was probably me.
More to the point, I’m in Iceland because EVE Online‘s Fanfest kicks off tomorrow. Comparatively, things are a bit low-key this year. There’s no grand ceremony like a monument unveiling. However, there is the chance that hundreds of convention-goers will have their retinas melted, and I guess that’d make for a pretty neat story.
As fun as it’d be to try interviewing people whose eyes are leaking out of their faces, I’m a realist and that probably won’t happen. Probably. More likely is that we learn more about EVE Online and CCP’s plans for the future now that we’re almost one year removed from the developer’s commitment to significant and frequent updates.
Also in the pipeline is information regarding EVE Valkyrie. Hopefully it’s running on the new Crescent Bay Oculus headset. Alternatively, hopefully Oculus releases soon so that we can finally play these games in our homes.
Finally, there’s sure to be information regarding last year’s mysterious announcement of first-person shooter Project Legion. Maybe we’ll see if that’s finally come to fruition. If so, will it be the coup de grâce for Dust 514? There’s so much to learn about CCP’s interconnected world, and a lot of it is going to be discovered within the next few days.
Wait. If all these people are here for Fanfest, who the hell’s tending to all the ships? ATTACK!
