{"id":98095,"date":"2019-08-08T13:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/eve-onlines-mobile-spinoff-echoes-will-start-a-closed-alpha-this-month\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:27:51","slug":"eve-onlines-mobile-spinoff-echoes-will-start-a-closed-alpha-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/08\/eve-onlines-mobile-spinoff-echoes-will-start-a-closed-alpha-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"EVE Online’s mobile spinoff Echoes will start a closed alpha this month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Ian Boudreau<\/span> 08 Aug 2019<\/span> <\/p>\n

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EVE: Echoes<\/em> was announced late last year and it’s the mobile version of CCP’s gargantuan space trading MMO. Like its older, PC-based sibling, Echoes<\/em> is set to be a persistent universe that players can inhabit and change, while exploring, harvesting resources to sell and trade, and fighting others who want to hijack your haul.<\/p>\n

CCP has announced that it’s holding a closed alpha test of Echoes<\/em>, which will run August 26 – September 20. While anyone can sign up for a chance at being invited into the alpha test, word on the street<\/a> is that this initial test will be limited to select regions: Australia, New Zealand, and the Nordic countries are the only folks who get to go hands on this time around.<\/p>\n

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CCP is developing EVE: Echoes<\/em> in partnership with Chinese games giant NetEase, who you may recall are Blizzard’s partners on the upcoming Diablo: Immortal<\/em>. CCP announced their partnership with NetEase Games<\/a> about a year ago, and the companies have worked together on building EVE Online China, which NetEase is operating.<\/p>\n

To sign up for the alpha test, head to the official EVE: Echoes<\/em> site<\/a> and fill in some information about where you live and the device you’re using. They’ll also ask a little about your familiarity with the EVE<\/em> franchise.<\/p>\n

EVE<\/em> is a lot of things, so it’ll be interesting to see which aspects of the game wind up taking prominence in the mobile adaptation, or whether Echoes<\/em> winds up interfacing at all with the existing EVE Online<\/em> universe. Phone battery life being what it is, I’m not sure the platform lends itself to traditional models of interstellar space exploration, so it’s a fair bet that this experience will be distinct from EVE Online<\/em> in some key ways.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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