Hilmar Veigar Pétursson interview — Why CCP thinks Iceland and South Korea are a good mix

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 6, 2018
Updated June 20, 2025
8 min

Hilmar Veigar Pétursson has worked at Eve Online maker CCP Games, Iceland’s biggest game studio, for 18 years, and he has been CEO since 2004. Today, he announced he agreed to sell CCP to Black Desert Online creator Pearl Abyss of South Korea for $425 million.

That’s a very nice pay day for CCP, but in an interview with GamesBeat, Pétursson said CCP and the staff of its successful Eve Online massively multiplayer online role-playing game will see no major changes. The company wants to reassure the hundreds of thousands of fans of Eve Online that they will not face any major overhauls or changes to the sci-fi game they love.

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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.