EVE Online has announced a new expansion to be released sometime before the summer solstice. The latest expansion titled "Tyrannis" will feature a form of planetary exploration, allowing players to survey planets and build new infrastructures to harvest, store, and process minerals. More details about the feature will be announced in the future, but you can check out all the new details for the expansion here.

That‘s right, you will finally be able to survey for juicy deposits of minerals and other goodies, build infrastructure to harvest them, store them, process them and launch them into space. Build complex networks of facilities and fine tune them for optimal production. All in a very massive single shard sandboxy way as only EVE can provide. And it‘s not just the terran planets. It‘s ALL OF THEM. The gas giants, the lava planets, the ice worlds, the water worlds and even the elusive plasma planets. Each type with their unique properties. Maintaining facilities on gruesomely hostile planets will be tougher and more demanding, but the rewards may be so much more “onturning.”