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...

As the release of The Exiled gets closer, the official site has posted the rulebook. The new format is probably easier to use, and the only really big change seems to be only being able to play one outer region per turn.

It seems that there's been a printing error on the new expansion for the CCG and they've had to delay the release for a while. The new release date is probably August.

A new update this week, and this time it's a totally new card type. Now a new card type has the risk of being very bad for the game, but I think they may have done it right this time. What we've got here is a Serpentis Character who costs 2 to play. The blue cross at the top right is the Clone Cost, which means that when she is killed you may pay 1 ISK in order to return her to your starbase. There's also the words AGENT and PILOT on the card. Characters can be...

The next official card preview is up, and this time it's an Accelerator Gate. It's a pretty fun location, and certainly one that's going to get a lot of use. For a cost of 1 it adds a +1 income and 1 mining location that allows you to respond to the attack of the region in which it is located by warping a friendly ship to the region and activate any of it's commands that it could normally activate. When played on the home region it's limited, but you can play it multiple times in a turn if you're...

This time there's some details from a card that apparently was published in a French magazine called Mana Rouge, but there's no picture yet and so take it's existence with a pinch of salt until it goes official. The card is a news called Daring Infiltration, and costs 5 to play. The ability is "Destroy target ship or starbase structure with cost 5 or lower, as it is being played", with the added Caldari ability of "Caldari: You may pay 2 in addition to Daring Infiltration's price to gain control of its target instead of having it destroyed. Treat the...

I missed a week in the card updates, and they then missed it from the archive so here we go with another new card from Exiled: Guristas Despoiler.   Being Guristas it's restricted to Caldari only and it's pretty ordinary stat wise except for the two new abilities that it brings. The first is it has a bounty! If you blow it up you get some free cash, which is always nice and has certain implications for if you field the ship or not. The more deadly ability is that for each friendly Guristas in the whole region it gets...

There's a new card preview this week, and it's one that's been submitted by a player.   So let me see, for 6 ISK you get a starbase structure that can be played by anybody. gives +1 ISK and +4 shields. What's more it can't be the target of news cards so is pretty hard to destroy or prevent. The downside is that it can only be played on an upgraded starbase. Now isn't that just the biggest problem ever? Let me present to you this card, the cornerstone for one of my Amarr decks, the reclamation tower: ...

Another preview is up for the Eve CCG and this time it's a new ship called a Serpentis Protector. Costs 5, Assembly 1, Attack 3, Shields 5. Mining 1, can be played only by Gallente and can activate it's commands at the end of every turn if it's in a friendly region. A bit expensive I hear you say, well there are also two new abilities alongside that mining: Tanking 2 and Sniping 2. All of the abilities are mutually exclusive so it's just one at a time folks. Tanking and Sniping are different sides of the same coin...

A new update has been posted for Exiled, and this time it's a card preview. It's a news card called The Speaker of Truths that has a duration of 1 and gives all defenders +1 attack. I already like this card, but it has something special as well. They're adding a feature called Racial Affinity, which means that there are also abilities that only apply if the specified races are present. In this case the card also has a racial affinity effect that gives Amarr ships +2 to their shields. This makes it a card that I suspect I'll use...