It is now past 00:00:01 UTC on the 19th of July, 2010, so Hulkageddon III has finished, the Summer of Gank is over.

According to the kill board, over 1700 exhumers were destroyed as well as over 700 mining barges.  There were also 29 Orcas done in and it looks like one Roquel.

And over three hundred players were pod-killed.

All of which represents an uptick from last time around, when it was over 1200 exhumers, 300 mining barges, a dozen Orcas, and ..read the full article

It is now past 00:00:01 UTC on July 9th, so Hulkageddon III should be in full swing.

There is even a promo video up on YouTube about the event.

And you can see the fun scroll by on the in-game channel Hulkageddon 3.

Fly safe.

Filed under: entertainment, EVE Online Tagged: Hulkageddon, Summer of Gank

The third round of Hulkageddon has been announced for EVE Online.  Christened the “Summer of Gank,” prizes are currently being collected to incent the destruction of mining barges throughout New Eden.

It is described on the event site as such:

Hulkageddon is a semi-regular event which takes place in the MMORPG game EVE-online.

During the event contestants vie with each other to see who can destroy the most mining vessels within a given timespan.

This is the 3rd edition of the event, ..read the full article

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January has proven to be the most active month ever here at TAGN, at least when counting page views.

As usual, that has little to do with me and a lot to do without factors outside of my control.  Heck, I was out of town for a full week in January.  What does that say?

First, I put up a couple of posts about Hulkageddon and for a while Google had me as the first result for that search term.  The ..read the full article

The week long Hulkageddon II event is over.

If you look at the statistics on the kill board, you will see that over a twelve hundred exhumers were destroyed along with over 300 mining barges.

Along with that, over 200 of the pilots were also pod killed as part of the action.

They even managed to knock off a dozen Orcas and, according to the kill board, one carrier.  I’m not sure how that last one fit in.  Was somebody drone mining with ..read the full article

I was looking at the Hulkageddon II killboard and decided to see how much destruction was going on in my neighborhood, which is the Domain region.  All this emergent game play is fun until it starts happening in your own favorite fishing hole.

I discovered that one of my previously noted favorite systems seems to be at the top of the chart.

Now, I’m not calling anybody names, I’m just saying it seems oddly appropriate that a lot of the killing in ..read the full article

As reported over on the official Hulkageddon site, Hulkageddon II starts on January 7th.  Since EVE Online runs on Coordinated Universal Time that means it is still January 6th for some of us.  But the go code has been given.

The week long event ends on January 14th.

As mentioned before, there is quite an array of prizes available for participants.

Of course, if you are a miner, this probably does not seem like such a fun event.  Still, I hope we’ll hear ..read the full article

If you are mining in EVE Online you had best keep an eye on who is coming and going in your system and make sure you have a your shield booster ready to activate, because it looks like Hulkageddon will return.

Yes, from January 7th through the 14th of 2010 the swarthy pirate set will be vying for billions of ISK in prize money plus special achievement awards, all for killing the most mining ships in Empire space.  You can even ..read the full article