Eve Online developer CCP Games has rebranded itself to Fenris Creations, and the company has also announced that it's partnering up with Google's DeepMind AI division to "explore new gameplay experiences" powered by the division's technologies.
Per a press release, Fenris Creations, which recently split from former parent company Pearl Abyss after a management buyout, will return to "a model similar to how the company operated before 2018", namely one "designed to support strategic decision-making for persistent live games and long-running virtual worlds".
If you're worried about this change affecting the day-to-day operations of Eve Online, you needn't be, it seems; Fenris says its "leadership team, studios, products, and ongoing development plans" are unchanged, and the same people who have shepherded Eve for many years are still at the helm.
As part of the rebrand, Fenris also shows off some of the projects on which it's currently working, including Eve Online (naturally), as well as space survival sim Eve Frontier and the studio's proprietary Carbon engine.
Another project shown on the banner is Eve Vanguard, described by Fenris as "an extraction-adventure FPS" in which you'll do the usual extraction shooter things, namely exploring, looting, and getting...
