Eve: Aether Wars tech demo squeezed 10,000 ships in a battle.
Eve: Aether Wars tech demo squeezed 10,000 ships in a battle.
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Why CCP Games crammed 14,274 spaceships into an Eve Online battle

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 11 min

It’s been seven months since Black Desert Online creator Pearl Abyss of South Korea acquired EVE Online maker CCP Games for $425 million. But Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of the EVE Online maker for more than 18 years, isn’t taking it easy.

In fact, Pétursson and his team are pushing onward to do bigger and better things.

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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.