{"id":31014,"date":"2026-05-07T14:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/31014\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:10:12","slug":"google-deepmind-acquired-a-minority-stake-in-the-studio-behind-eve-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/31014\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind acquired a minority stake in the studio behind EVE Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purchase cost was in the \u201cmillions\u201d of dollars.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"foobox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVE-Online.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-240090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EVE-Online.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">EVE Online<\/p>\n<p>This price range for the deal was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-06\/google-deepmind-takes-minority-stake-in-maker-of-eve-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mentioned<\/a> by CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar P\u00e9tursson in an interview with Bloomberg. He did not disclose the exact amount nor the specific size of the stake owned by Google DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, P\u00e9tursson added that the investment was not the only aspect of the deal \u2014 the parties also entered into a research partnership. According to him, as part of the agreement, Google DeepMind will study how intelligence functions \u201cin complex dynamic systems.\u201d For this purpose, the company will conduct experiments in an autonomous version of EVE Online on a local server.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, CCP Games issued a press release in which they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccpgames.com\/news\/2026\/studio-behind-eve-online-goes-independent-rebrands-as-fenris-creations-enters-research-partnership-with-google-deepmind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> a rebranding. The studio revealed that it will now operate under a new name \u2014 Fenris Creations.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s noteworthy that the deal with Google DeepMind and the rebranding took place immediately after the creators of EVE Online separated from Pearl Abyss. The studio was <a href=\"https:\/\/gameworldobserver.com\/2026\/04\/30\/pearl-abyss-sold-the-creators-of-eve-online-for-much-less-than-it-purchased-them-for\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bought out<\/a> by its own management for $120 million, even though the South Korean company had reportedly paid $425 million for it at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"article-source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-06\/google-deepmind-takes-minority-stake-in-maker-of-eve-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-source-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/index.png\"\/><br \/>Bloomberg<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The purchase cost was in the \u201cmillions\u201d of dollars. EVE Online This price range for the deal was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19966,5044,19969,132,7543,9965],"class_list":{"0":"post-31014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"tag-ccp-games","9":"tag-deepmind","10":"tag-fenris-creations","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-google-deepmind","13":"tag-industry-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}