About Captain Benzie

Captain Benzie

Captain Benzie is a British YouTuber who has been making tips, tricks, tutorials and review videos for various games since 2018, focusing mainly on space games.

EVE Online

EVE Online is a futuristic online multiplayer game set over 21,000 years in the future. Humanity, faced with resource depletion on Earth, began colonizing the Milky Way, leading to competition and conflict. However, a game-changing discovery of a wormhole to an unexplored galaxy called "New Eden" altered the course of history. Colonies were established, connected through a stabilizing gate labeled "EVE." Tragically, the wormhole's collapse severed this link, leaving New Eden isolated and struggling for survival. Over the ages, descendants rebuilt their societies, but their knowledge of Earth and the Milky Way faded into myth. The game features five major empires: Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, Minmatar, and Jove, each emerging from the surviving colonies and dominating interstellar spaceflight in the EVE Online universe.

EVE Online, a space-based MMORPG by CCP Games, offers players a vast and dynamic universe with 7,800 star systems. Engage in diverse professions like mining, piracy, trading, and combat, both PvE and PvP. Its unparalleled scale and complexity foster unscripted economic rivalries, warfare, and political intrigue among players. Notably, the game witnessed epic battles, like the 21-hour Bloodbath of B-R5RB, making it a renowned gaming experience.

Captain Benzie regularly releases EVE Online videos on his YouTube Channel covering everything from the new player experience to life in a wormhole, to lore and exploration, and more. The Captain is active on our Discord, regularly plays with and chats to the members of Catskull Cartel, and is, as always, our moral compass and community's spiritual adviser.

Other Games

EVE Echoes

EVE Echoes is a mobile MMO game that generally follows the design principles of EVE Online. In this expansive space sandbox, players create their unique path to glory, teaming up with pilots from across the galaxy to influence the persistent universe. Engage in interstellar battles, explore, plunder, gather resources, trade, and more in thousands of solar systems. The game's history is shaped entirely by its players, from empires rising and falling to power dynamics shifting.

For many years, Captain Benzie was actively involved in the Catskull Cartel corporation that he co-founded in EVE Echoes. His exploits are well documented on his YouTube Channel. Changes to the game mechanics and direction have meant that the Captain has decided to move away from EVE Echoes to focus more on other games instead.

And more...

If it's a space-based game, Captain Benzie has either played it, wants to play it, or will play it if given half a chance! When we're really lucky, the Captain will also publish a YouTube video describing his impressions and experiences of playing them too.

Among others, Captain Benzie has been known to play, comment, or create content on Stellaris, Infinite Lagrange, Star Citizen, Homeworld Mobile, Trigon: Space Story, Star Realms, Crying Suns, and Influence!

Things to look out for...

Announced at the 2023 EVE Online Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland, two new games from CCP Games are on the way, and you can bet your bottom dollar than Captain Benzie will be trying them out and letting us know what he thinks of them!

EVE Vanguard

EVE Vanguard is an new and innovative FPS module integrated into the EVE Online universe, co-evolved with players. It's a persistent, highly customizable, and social experience, offering intense gameplay. Join the Vanguard to impact New Eden's war machine, with options to corrupt, supply, and turn the tide of battle. Choose your allegiance and face the consequences in the ongoing wars of EVE Online.

EVE Galaxy Conquest

EVE Galaxy Conquest is an all-new 4X strategy game from CCP Games coming to mobile devices and PC. Details at the time of writing this are limited, but from the 2023 Fanfest reveal, it looks like it'll be a lot of fun.