EVE Online available to Mac and Linux users

EVE Online Available to Mac and Linux Users

CCP expands reach of its leading Sci-Fi MMOG to include most popular gaming
platforms in partnership with TransGaming

 

 

Reykjavík, Iceland and Toronto, Canada - November 7, 2007 -
<http://ccpgames.com/> CCP, one of the world's largest independent game
developers, and  <http://www.transgaming.com/> TransGaming Inc. (TSX-V:
TNG), a leading developer of software portability products for the
electronic entertainment industry, today announced the availability of
<http://eve-online.com/> EVE Online, a leading massively multiplayer online
game (MMOG), on the Macintosh and Linux platforms. With this release,
<http://eve-online.com/> EVE Online is now available on the most widely used
operating systems - Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and Linux. 

 

CCP and  <http://www.transgaming.com/> TransGaming collaborated to develop
the Mac and Linux versions of  <http://eve-online.com/> EVE Online to allow
users across platforms to play within the same perpetual online universe,
enabling large-scale battles with thousands of players. Seamless integration
of  <http://eve-online.com/> EVE Online's original code for Microsoft
Windows with Cider, for the Mac, and Cedega, for Linux, preserves the high
quality of the game's performance on the new platforms. These engines allow
the original code base to run on Mac and Linux and therefore deliver
equivalent game play, as well as ensure that the game evolves congruently on
all three platforms without delays. 

 

"The explosive growth of  <http://eve-online.com/> EVE Online since its
launch coupled with the strong demand from the Mac and Linux communities has
encouraged us to make the game available on new platforms," said Thor
Gunnarsson, Vice President of Business Development of
<http://www.ccpgames.com/> CCP. "Together with
<http://www.transgaming.com/> TransGaming, we have now achieved an important
milestone in our drive to make the EVE universe pervasive and available to
anyone who wishes to play."

 

"The availability of  <http://eve-online.com/> EVE Online to the Mac and
Linux communities extends the game to rapidly growing new communities who
have been enthusiastically demanding the game on their platforms of choice,"
said Vikas Gupta, CEO of  <http://www.transgaming.com/> TransGaming
Technologies. "We are very pleased to see the efforts of our partnership
come to fruition with the release of  <http://eve-online.com/> EVE Online
for the Mac and Linux platforms."

 

A free, 14-day trial for  <http://eve-online.com/> EVE Online is available
for download at  <http://www.eve-online.com/> http://www.eve-online.com For
full details of the  <http://www.ccpgames.com/> CCP and
<http://www.transgaming.com/> TransGaming partnership, please visit
<http://www.lewiswire.com/us/index.php?news_id=139&cli...>
http://www.lewiswire.com/us/index.php?news_id=139&cli...

 

About TransGaming Inc.

 

TransGaming <http://www.transgaming.com/>  is a leader in the development of
unique software portability products that allow game developers and
publishers to develop games for one system and deploy them across multiple
platforms. 

 

TransGaming <http://www.transgaming.com/>  is headquartered in Toronto,
Canada and maintains a research and development center in Ottawa, Canada.
More information about the company can be obtained at
http://www.transgaming.com <http://www.transgaming.com/> 

 

About EVE Online

 

Set tens of thousands of years in the future, EVE Online
<http://eve-online.com/>  is a breathtaking journey to the stars, to an
immersive experience filled with adventure, riches, danger and glory.
Supported by a vast player-run economy, EVE offers professions to choose
ranging from commodities trader to mercenary, industrial entrepreneur to
pirate, mining engineer to battle fleet commander or any combination of
these and much more. Your greatest asset is the starship, designed to
accommodate your specific needs, skills and ambitions. Complementing its
lethal arsenal are thousands of modules and components, allowing for
countless customizations. From brokering business deals to waging war, you
will have access to a diverse array of sophisticated tools and interfaces to
forge your own destiny in EVE.

 

About CCP 

 

CCP <http://www.ccpgames.com/>  is an industry-leading independent developer
and publisher of EVE Online <http://eve-online.com/> , a
massively-multiplayer online role-playing game. Founded in 1997 and
privately held, CCP <http://www.ccpgames.com/>  is recognized
internationally as a pioneer of the single-server persistent universe
architecture. EVE Online <http://eve-online.com/>  is played in nearly every
country in the world with more than 190,000 players. The company is
headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland with offices in Atlanta, London and
Shanghai. More information is available at http://www.ccpgames.com.
<http://www.ccpgames.com/> 

 

Media contacts:

 

LEWIS PR for CCP: 

Monica Appelbe                                    

+1.415.992.4400

eve-online@lewispr.com

 

For TransGaming:

Ivana Otovic

+1.416.979.9900 x300

ivana@transgaming.com

 

Investor Relations TransGaming:

Jean-Francois (JF) Dube

+1.877.848.8790

investors@transgaming.com

 

 

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