Cold War Officially Announced

Rejoice, ye Eve Online players, for the Cold War upgrade is now officially announced, and scheduled to be available for the first week of July.

From MMORPG.com:

“Apart from being a major content upgrade to EVE Online, this update also represents our focus on the global market for EVE,â€? says Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games. “Not only does it include a totally reengineered new player experience, but the tutorials will be translated to 9 different languages and include improved Unicode support. This will give the players the chance to communicate and create communities based on their own language.â€?

EVE Online®: Cold War Edition will put the fragile peace sustaining the Empire territories at risk, as sovereignties secretly vie for advantage over their foes. Empires will unite to form pacts, old superhighways will be changed… a new world order is forming. Dozens of new passageways into the deep space regions will create unprecedented opportunities for both veteran and new pilots alike.

New features include the Dreadnoughts, the implementation of outposts, pirate factions and better combat abilities.