Eve Online is the subject of a course dubbed The Friendship Machine.
Eve Online is the subject of a course dubbed The Friendship Machine.
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CCP Games taps University of Iceland for course on the science of friendship and video games

Eve Online maker CCP Games has partnered with the University of Iceland to offer a course for studying the “science of friendship and video games.”

The online course is now available on edX.org and is accessible to anyone interested in studying how video games have created a new type of human connection. The course is “Friendship Machine: Forming a New Type of Human Connection,” and it features CCP‘s player-driven spacefaring massively multiplayer online game, Eve Online.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.