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The official Jumpgate Evolution website has re-launched and contains loads of new content for fans of the game to enjoy. It even includes some videos of the re-make of NetDevil's space MMO classic.

Check it out here.

Jumpgate Evolution is a new MMORPG based off the classic Jumpgate MMO from NetDevil. The original game shows its age, but confident in the design, NetDevil has decided to rebuild and expand it into a modern MMO. Today we have three screenshots of a Solrain Fighter.

Word from the Top of the World is the EVE Fanfest has started up and won't stop for 3 days:

EVE Fanfest 2007 opens!
At 11.00 GMT today, 1 November, we opened the doors to the EVE Fanfest 2007!

This marked the start of 3 days of fun with presentations, roundtables, a trip to the Blue Lagoon, PvP tournament, CCG demonstration and tournament, silent auction charity, the dev band RöXör and of course a chance to meet friends and foes and devs. For the full schedule, please download the Fanfest brochure.

Everything will culminate on Saturday with the famous Party At The Top Of The World™!

Dana Massey is attending on behalf of WarCry and will have updates and a bunch of stories of Viking mayhem to relate when he gets back I'm sure.

Friday morning, someone hacked the EVE Online database and tried to manipulate data, possibly to give themselves an unfair advantage. CCP quickly discovered the intrusion and handled the problem, and then issued the following statement:

At 10:25 GMT today we discovered an anomaly in the EVE Online Database indicating a potential exploit. Our policy in such cases is to mobilize a taskforce of internal and external experts to evaluate the situation. At 12:57 that group concluded that our best course of action was to go completely dark while an exhaustive scan of our entire infrastructure was executed.

Our taskforce quickly found the security breach and prevented that from being used. We subsequently found three cases of database actions being performed through the security breach but none of those affected other users than the one doing the actions. We can also confirm that no personal details such as users' credentials or credit card numbers were exposed through this incident.

To see the official statement in its entirety, hit the jump.

Richard Garriott, the Executive Producer of Tabula Rasa, has finally undertaken a longtime goal of his: a trip to space. This fall, the legendary game designer will blast off and conduct some scientific research about the International Space Station. The trip is through Space Adventures.

Read more after the click.

EVE Online looks like it is set to leave Boot Camp behind as a native Mac/Linux client has been announced for later this year:

CCP Games, one of the world's largest independent game developers, today announced a partnership with TransGaming Inc. (TSX-V: TNG) , a leading developer of software portability products for the electronic entertainment industry. The strategic relationship will enable CCP to deliver its popular massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), EVE Online, with Linux and Macintosh platforms later this year.

TransGaming provides technology and expertise to deploy games across a range of platforms without the need for redevelopment and still maintaining the high quality of gameplay and allowing users of different platforms to play in the same perpetual online universe. As a result of this partnership, CCP will be able to expand the reach of its Sci-fi MMOG to new groups around the world.

Along with the graphics upgrade coming later as well, this is making me really want a new MacBook Pro. I know, what would I do with it other than play EVE and WoW?

Hit the jump for the full announcement.

Caldari Battleship V - 14d, 13h, 44m

Dr. Eyjo "DrEyjoG" Gudmundsson, Lead Economist at CCP Games, has published his first official dev blog and discusses the mineral market. You can read all about it at http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid;=498. Also, EVE Online set a PCU (Peak Concurrent Users) record on September 3rd, with a total of over 35,000 players logged in at once. That's a great accomplishment for an MMO that at one time didn't even have 35,000 subscribers. Well done!

NetDevil is a busy company these days. To go along with LEGO, Warmonger and Auto Assault, they've decided to do a full update of Jumpgate, calling it Jumpgate Evolution. They're taking the classic game and hoping to bring it up to par with competitors like EVE Online.

Interested? You can sign up for beta here.

The U.S. Department of Defense is hard at work on the "Iris" project, that would see the Internet make its way to space by 2009. This project would allow satellite-to-satellite communications and enhance military communications. Iris, which means Internet Router Protocol In Space, must now be put up there beside Google as the computer program now most likely to become self-aware and try and take over the world.

Read more of this fascinating story on BBC News.