It's that time of the fortnight again and we have the Van Hemlock Podcast Episode 9 for your listening pleasure. Lots of talk of Eve, Planetside and a bonus nervous breakdown.

Our latest corp war has ended, and this time it was against a one man corp who never even came close to us. He declared on us, told us that he'll probably never follow up and attack us and we told him where to find us in case he felt in the mood. Still, he had good 0.0 experience and was very well represented on the killboards. My paranoia was screaming trap throughout all of it. But now the war is retracted and we've survived yet another conflict where we didn't even see the enemy in space. I never even...

It seems that all I've done over the last few days is roll alts in Eve. Alt for the factional warfare sister corp, alts to see what good base skills you can get with a pure noob and, finally, a new alt for actually experimenting with factional warfare. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but despite playing Eve for over five years now I'm utterly useless at PvP. Well that's what I think because I never actually do any except when I really can't avoid it. I think it's time that I did actually bother to learn, but since...

Although CCP or White Wolf haven't said anything about it recently I think it's probably time to call the Eve CCG dead. The last of the fan sites are shutting down and the official site was down for a couple of days seemingly without anybody noticing.  The last news was in April, and there was a big gap before that too. Most telling there's no moderation on the forums anymore, swearing doesn't seem to get you censored as you would expect. CCP/White Wolf have no visible interest in the game any more. Worse of all it's been far too long...

Is it just me or is the Empyrean Age title screen music very Terminator era Brad Fidel? That's not a bad thing, just an observation.

It's Eve patch day, and we're getting Factional Warfare. Yeah, yeah but what's the important new feature? New music of course! I shall rip them out as soon as I patch and add them to my iPod. Hey, podcasters. More music for us to use! Speaking of podcasts there's a new Van Hemlock podcast up, the rather imaginatively named Episode 8. It'll appear on virginworlds.com shortly, but for now http://vanhemlock.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=348193.

One of the advantages of relying on random google searches to find content and not, as I try to avoid them like the plague, the official forums is I have no idea if people know about this and refuse to check the forums to see. I made that mistake this weekend over the Battlestar Gallactica ad (STOP BEING SO, and I feel this is a suitable place for the word, FRACKING NEGATIVE ALL THE TIME!) and so don't have to go back for another 6 months. Anyway... HL2, Eve and lots of spare time gets you this: http://www.livepvp.com/watch/eve-online/clear-skies/ THAT is...