EVE Vanguard Preview: A Digestible Dose of EVE Online

Last week, I attended EVE Fanfest 2025, and while in Iceland, I went hands-on with the latest build of EVE Vanguard. If you caught any of the keynotes, EVE Vanguard Creative Director Scott Davis has been the ultimate hype-man for the Vanguard, and beyond being one of the people behind the game, he is right to be excited. Though the game is still over a year away from early access, the small taste that I got has me itching to explore New Eden’s planets with my boots on the ground.

EVE Online is notoriously a near-impossible game to break into as a new player. The sheer size is intimidating, and though the EVE community is welcoming, the gameplay is not. While EVE Online is getting Freelance Jobs, which will make it a bit easier to integrate players into the universe, CCP Games is exploring new avenues to bring fresh takes on the universe. That’s where EVE Vanguard comes in, a new MMOFPS that brings players down to the surface of the planets of New Eden.

The first thing CCP... Read more