EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online sandbox in which players can be and do whatever they want, as long as what they want to be is the captain of a competitive spreadsheets club. Dust 514 is a free-to-play first-person-shooter available exclusively on the PS3, and set in the EVE Online universe.

But it’s not just a setting: Dust actually does take place in EVE’s world. The economies are linked, and players in both games can interact via a number of complicated things that I don’t quite understand. The general idea, I believe, is that players in EVE will be able to send players in Dust on missions, which in turn helps to secure resources for those EVE players. Something something space elevator.

For the last few months, CCP has been running the two games independently and linking Dust only to EVE’s test server as the studio worked out the various kinks in mashing two games together and making them kiss. But tomorrow it all changes—Dust and EVE will be officially and irrevocably linked after a quick maintenance period.

So what does this mean for Dust and EVE players? Honestly, the only person who can explain that is someone that’s really into EVE or Dust, and the explanation is likely so complicated we’d all end up distracted by cat videos anyway. We do know that players of both games can join corporations, and that some elements aren’t fully implemented (like currency trading).

Now we’re just waiting to see what happens when you plug two completely different games and communities into one another. Get some popcorn.

[Gamasutra]

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