Overview
- Fenris Creations, formerly CCP Games, disclosed Wednesday it bought itself back from Pearl Abyss for $120 million and returned to independent governance.
- Google DeepMind took a minority equity stake alongside a research pact to study long-horizon planning, memory, and continual learning inside EVE’s complex, player-driven world.
- All tests will run on offline, local-server versions of the game that are separate from Tranquility, the live server, so regular players will not see changes from the research.
- Leadership, studios, and projects remain in place with no layoffs or restructuring, and the company reported more than $70 million in 2025 revenue as it continues EVE Vanguard and EVE Frontier.
- The partners plan to share more details at EVE Fanfest in Reykjavík next week, highlighting how long-running virtual worlds can double as safe sandboxes for advancing AI.