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Our blog has no specific corporation associations or allegiances. It's our intent to remain neutral and simply report the news and other events from inside Dust 514.

Inside the Entropy Virus, Part 1

 One of our many sources throughout New Eden recently revealed himself to be a member of the secretive EV Alliance or Entropy Virus [ http://entropyvirus.com/ ]consisting of the notorious Global Conflict, RND, STB and BHD among others. Many have heard whispers of the EV, this secretive alliance full of bravado, but we were finally able to confirm the existence of this mysterious group. Our source recently supplied us with taped discussions from inside secret alliance meetings where they discussed things like other alliances, corporations, how to get CONCORD to come down on rival groups and even which corporations they should "turn".

Propaganda Ridicules Border Skirmishes

While a massive roll-out and mobilization of ground forces has begun in many New Eden Corporations, many disenfranchised veterans of some of the popular MAG Border Skirmishes have begun filtering through some of the larger alliances.

TEST Alliance Begins Recruiting

The Test Alliance has begun their well publicized push for recruiting the soldiers that storm the surfaces of planets in New Eden. The enduring image many will remember is the recruiting poster (seen above) that harkens back to the days of the most primitive of projectile weapons that were used thousands of years prior. It's an odd but apparently very effective way to seduce mercs to fly their colors.

CCP Reveals Dust 514 Prelaunch Bundle

Yesterday David Reid revealed the Prelaunch Bundle that was recently made available for Dust 514. It creates a value based option to get more from the game at launch despite the fact that the game is a F2P title. As it stands, the bundle allows for a more enhanced starter arsenal in addition to access to all private and public beta events.

So what's your opinion of the Pre-Launch Bundle? Is it an asset worth investing in or something you will pass on?

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CCP Spotlights DUSTERS!

 We're extremely proud of CCP's recent shout out piece regarding our site in the most recent Dust 514 Newsletter. they couldn't have done a better description of our site than "for gamers, by gamers" We appreciate the opportunity to interact with new fans of the upcoming MMOFPS and hope we'll enjoy an increased viewership as a result.

All credit goes to our staff. Keep up the good work guys and gals!

We're Recruiting!

That's right! The Dusters Blog is recruiting again! We have a wonderful team here already but due to a big spike in viewership we don't want them to get swamped with emails regarding information from Sources, Headlines, Interviews and all the other wonderful things we do.

Ever thought about working with us? What we do is pretty simple, among other things we craft in-game events into Headlines, draft Interviews and we even have fiction writers that are featured on our blog, so there's a niche for everyone. Interested? GREAT. Send us an email at magww@live.com expressing your interest and we'll see what you got. Please keep in mind that what we do we do for fun, it's on a volunteer basis. But we promise not to fire you when the big bucks start rolling in :)

Mercs thumb their noses at GoonSwarm (Updated)

Perhaps there were words spoken from the bliss of alcohol, but news out of Mordu's Trials where countless corporations are currently training, seems to imply that several newer corporations have it out for the Goonswarm.

CCP Event Horizon Home Event

Attention DUST 514 fans,

Join CCP at the DUST 514 PlayStation Home Space for our special event: Event Horizon and get free prizes and a chance to enter the DUST 514 closed beta now!

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Dust 514 E3 Stage Demo

The E3 demo is online, here is a link to watch: click here
Enjoy.

New Dust 514 E3 footage surfaces on GameTrailers

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-dust-514/731498
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-dust-514/731502
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-dust-514/731354

Don't forget that there will be a Dust 514 presentation at E3 on Thursday.

New Dust Beta Trailer!

Here's the first E3 footage of Dust 514 in all its glory. We get to take a look at some of the solid visuals, battlefield mechanics, vehicle combat, orbital strikes and what appeared to be a surface weapon that can attack ships in orbit. Enjoy the trailer below.

E3 Beta Trailer

Is a ROFL/SYN Confrontation Brewing?

Sources have alerted us to a possible confrontation brewing between the ROFL alliance and SyN Corp. Most of the details aren't known at this time, but some of the animosity seems to be derived from the fact that SyN is the home of many former PHI members, producing a natural bad-blood between the two groups. While one look at the two groups would have you believe SyN has a significant disadvantage; as they are a corporation while ROFL is an entire alliance of corporations, rumor has it that the smaller group possesses some of the most elite mercenaries in the entire galaxy.