Here's what $200,000 of real money being destroyed in a game looks like

In EVE Online, a video game about outer space, players managed to obliterate about US $200,000 (€146,000) worth of pretend spaceships – and that's real-money value we're talking about.

In EVE Online, a video game about outer space, players managed to obliterate about US $200,000 (€146,000) worth of pretend spaceships this week – and that's real-money value we're talking about.

EVE is notorious for being a cut-throat game, with massive battles on this level happening every few months – but this is the biggest yet. Here's what happened: