The next expansion for EVE Online, Quantum Rise, is due next week. What we didn't know, however, is that CCP has committed the full force of its 300 person workforce to the 2009 summer expansion, True Exploration, and that this expansion, featuring unstable wormholes and Tech 3 modular ships (combine up to 5 modules to create a highly specialized ship) will beat summer. True Exploration will be due out in March 10, 2009 and will be in retail stores because of a just-announced publishing relationship with Atari.

We'll have a full report tonight, so stay tuned to the EVE FanFest 2008 portal for more info.