EVE Online studio CCP Games has announced that it is working on a new triple-A game set in the EVE universe, and I am very sorry to say that it is a blockchain game.
“Since its inception, CCP Games’ vision has been to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life,” CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson said at projectawakening.io. “Now, with advancements made within blockchain, we can forge a new universe deeply imbued with our expertise in player agency and autonomy, empowering players to engage in new ways.”
The announcement is really about the funding for the project, rather than the game itself: CCP got $40 million in development funding from Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm founded by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen. CCP did say, however, that t…