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EVE Fanfest and the BBC: Symphonies, Spaceships and Circumcisions!

How do you get the BBC to take an interest in internet spaceships? Tell them there's a symphonic orchestra and free champagne at the 10th anniversary celebration, that's how.
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Published: May 1, 2013 05:22 pm

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Travelling to Iceland to join hundreds of other internet spaceship enthusiasts at Fanfest is a bewildering enough experience for those of us who know our Gallente from our Minmatar and our Goons from our carebears, but to those less well-informed it becomes a real…ahem.. odyssey.

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This year, as well as providing exclusive coverage for Gameskinny, being a genuine EVE Online player working amongst the wider press found me falling into the unofficial role of player-press liaison. As a result, I had the privilege of working alongside some seasoned professionals, including Adam Rosser, a radio journalist for BBC Radio 5.

Last night’s BBC radio programming included Adam’s coverage of his Fanfest experience. This 20 minute recording provides a broad overview for general public consumption and some interesting insights from CCP’s Creative Director Torfi Frans Ólafsson and CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson.

Torfi’s segment makes for particularly amusing listening. Tsk tsk.

 

 

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Mat Westhorpe
Broken paramedic and coffee-drinking Englishman whose favourite dumb animal is an oxymoron. After over a decade of humping and dumping the fat and the dead, my lower spine did things normally reserved for Rubik's cubes, bringing my career as a medical clinician to an unexpectedly early end. Fortunately, my real passion is in writing and given that I'm now highly qualified in the art of sitting down, I have the time to pursue it. Having blogged about video games (well, mostly EVE Online) for years, I hope to channel my enjoyment of wordcraft and my hobby of gaming into one handy new career that doesn't involve other people's vomit.