Dust 514 is the product of a partnership with Sony, who recently announced its latest console, the PlayStation 4. We asked Petursson if CCP was interested in the new console, especially with its PC-like architecture.

"I'm getting personally very excited for the PlayStation 4. For all the softballs Microsoft is throwing [Sony's] way, they're knocking them out of the park. It's kind of amazing," he chuckled. "The whole thing with the 8GB of DDR5 memory is you can make pretty amazing games with that memory architecture. I think it's going to be important in the future, rather than the CPU and the GPU. It gives you an easy path just to update the graphics just through increasing the texture resolution. I think that's hugely exciting."

Despite his enthusiasm, Petursson said the company's console focus remains firmly with the PlayStation 3.

"We're off to the races with an audience of core gamers," he told us. "So we're now entering our fast iteration cycle, doing monthly updates. A very tight collaboration with the community, as we've done with EVE throughout the years. That really is our focus. Not worrying too much about all these future platforms. There's no need to rush into that. They're going to be selling through next year. There's 70 million PlayStation 3's in the world. Huge audience, not a lot of product coming out, and we have a free-to-play game."