New Eve Movie and factoids

June 29, 2006 on 8:00 am | In MMO (Live), Eve, Reporting

Eve Newsletter VIII arrived this past Monday.

I found some of the information pretty interesting.

Some basics:

• Eve hit the 130,000 subscriber milestone
• About 500,000 people registered for the Eve China beta.
• Eve Collectible Card Game ships. I'm not much into CCGs myself, but I imagine some are.

Most importantly though, they included a link to a new movie they created to show off the new graphics they've been developing. In theory, the following link will automatically launch your default movie viewer and start buffering the stream:

Link to the movie.

Complete with a soundtrack evocative of the general Eve music with a techno spin, this video shows a lot of glory shots and some battles. The ships of course look incredible, but it's some of the shaky-cam stuff that really impressed me.

I have no idea if that bit is going to make the final release, but I sure hope it does. Having fallen in love with both Battlestar Galactica and the unfortunately-now-defunct Firefly (an ode is in progress), I like me my shaky cam. It makes CGI look, well, less like CGI.