GamesIndustry.biz has reassurances from CCP Games CEO Hilmar Petursson that the company and EVE Online, its flagship MMORPG, are both safely insulated from the uncertainties caused by the current worldwide financial crisis, which has hit CCP's home of Iceland particularly hard. Petursson says the diverse international audience for EVE Online helps protect them from local financial woes, and that they have taken further steps "with various financial institutions around the world, giving us the agility needed to manage our global operations around the effects of the credit crunch." I guess we should expect no less from a company with its own in-house economist (story).