EVE Online developer CCP wins European Media Award
Icelandic MMO maker earns place on Media Moment's Larger Companies List
EVE Online developer CCP has received a Media Momentum Award, and a place on the Media Moment's Larger Companies List 2009, for being one of the fastest growing digital media companies in Europe.
The awards are judged by a panel of European digital media industry luminaries, including Lastminute.com founder Martha Lane-Fox.
"CCP is honoured to receive this award as it validates our earliest plans of the future for EVE Online - a true virtual society that has a real sense of history and intrigue between players," said CEO Hilmar Petursson at the awards ceremony in London.
"We feel fortunate to have experienced dynamic growth both in our products and as a company and hope to use that energy to propel them further".
The awards follow the recent announcement that the subscriber base for the Icelandic company's massively multiplayer online game has reached 300,000. Coinciding with the game's sixth anniversary, the company has also announced plans to recruit around 60 new job positions over the course of 2009.
Discussing the awards in an interview with The Telegraph newspaper, Petursson revealed that 40 per cent of the users are from the US, 40 per cent from Europe and only 1000 from Iceland - although the 300,000 total is equal to the entire Icelandic population.
Despite the country being one of the most severely hit by the credit crunch, CCP's revenues rose 25 per cent in 2008 to USD 46.5 million and are expected to hit USD 55 million in 2009.