I got an email from Vendetta

Lustmord

And it kinda got me missing the game.

How many people are playing these days? What's happened in the past year or so?

Phaserlight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFI5OSGmXwk

The above video is coverage of a recent-ish event voice cast by yours truly.

A well known player answered a similar question in the following thread:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/28311#342771

I'll defer to her reply:

"not much big has changed in [one year]. A bunch of smaller things have. Mines are persistent now, you can operate your own turrets, docked ships inside capships use up cargo space, there is a new power-draining weapon, conq stations are now much faster to conquer, and other small stuff like that. Oh, and a new version of the vulture model is being tested out of Odia M-14; eventually that will replace all vulture models (stats will remain the same). There were also a variety of bugfixes, including the one that could trap you in limbo for 15 minutes when you didn't have anywhere valid to dock (it is now always possible to dock with Corvus, even if they hate your guts). Ship-to-non-ship collisions cause damage again as well (yay!)."

(f.y.i. the new vulture model is now in production, replacing all older variants).