{"id":56746,"date":"2013-07-29T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56746"},"modified":"2013-07-29T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T12:50:10","slug":"biggest-online-space-battle-ever-takes-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/56746-biggest-online-space-battle-ever-takes-place","title":{"rendered":"Biggest online space battle ever takes place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EVE Online has a cult following among the PC community, and the sci-fi MMO hosted its largest ever space battle when over 4,000 gamers took to the virtual stars to blow one another up.<\/p>\n<p>EVE Online saw the TEST Alliance and the Goonswarm-led CFC, two of the biggest factions in the game, go head-to-head in a battle that lasted over five hours and racked up some serious damage.<\/p>\n<p>The battle also saw more than 2,900 ships destroyed, with the CFC coming out on top after the titanic encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The attack by the CFC was the end-game of a strategy which has been in action for over two-months. The CFC planned the attack as the final invasion of TEST\u2019s home region.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chtHHKlrXm8\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56732-xbox-one-controller-price-revealed.html\"><b>Xbox One controller price revealed<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56724-fez-2-cancelled-dev-phil-fish-quits-industry.html\"><b>Fez 2 cancelled, dev Phil Fish quits industry<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56738-company-of-heroes-2-is-a-giant-offensive-stereotype.html\"><b>Company of Heroes 2 is a \u201cgiant, offensive stereotype\u201d<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/56733-intel-broadwell-chipset-to-hit-laptops-first.html\">Intel Broadwell chipset to hit laptops first<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVE Online is home to the largest space battle ever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":53389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10841,9794,2305,21,469,6898],"class_list":["post-56746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-e-v-e","tag-eve","tag-eve-online","tag-headline","tag-mmo","tag-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56747,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56746\/revisions\/56747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}