The official EVE Online soundtrack is available on iTunes.  Additional info from the fan page for Jón Hallur (RealX) on Facebook:

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Risk is everywhere in EVE, and even the well-respected folks aren’t above pulling goofy stuff at the expense of others.  From Hexx, Chairman of Ebank:

Yesterday was a busy day. Here’s what we know for certain…Ricdic has scammed and engaged in RMT. He stole roughly 200 Billion of our 2.3 Trillion in deposits (8.6%). We are in the process of getting a new deposit character in place and hope to have this completed by tonight. He might have gotten away with more but Amarr Citizen 155 and Athre were able to prevent that. Please give them your thanks; I know I do.

Damn.  Now I don’t myself put any faith in player run banks, but if I were to suddenly have a change of heart in that, EBank would be the one I’d go with.  Does this change my view of the organization?  Like I said, risk is part of the game, so probably the answer would be no.  It seems like the response from the other managing type folks at EBank has been more than sensible, and the offending character’s been banned for his actions because some RMT occurred.

I still may not trust other players with my hard-earned iskies, but that’s just me.

Source: Forum Thread

For those of us who were worried about the future status of tournaments in EVE, worry no more: AT7 is coming soon.  Quoth the Charlie:

Starting in early September this year, you can all look forward to three weekends of mayhem and explosive action on the greatest stage in EVE.

We have some pretty exciting ideas for improvements this year to the whole show, and there will be a full blog on the tournament itself in a couple of weeks.  That will be when we announce the instructions on how to sign up, full rules, tournament format and all the rest.

As is usually the case, you armchair generals are welcome to apply to become tournament experts, whereby you attempt to publicly show the greater EVE community how much you know about PVP.  If you make the grade, CCP will fly you to Iceland to commentate on the finals.  For the prior matches, commentators are welcome to sit at home in your underwear and do the commentary from there.

More info?  Think you’re thmart?  Click below.

Source: Dev Blog

It’s been awhile since we’ve been able to have actual phyiscal contact with the stories of EVE, but the wait will soon be over with the release of a second EVE novel entitled EVE: The Burning Life by Hjalti Danielsson.

It’s not out yet, and there’s no release date on the Amazon.co.uk listing for it, but there is this big description which probably doesn’t do the book the tiniest bit of justice:

The capsuleers are the immortal pilots that string together the vast Interglactic empire that makes up the universe of EVE. Remote from the mortal population they have come from they are cold and distant. They are needed but hated. John has reason to hate them – a capsuleer attack on the pirate space colony he worked in killed his family. Carla hates them too. But her hatred is for herself as well. She worked as an agent for capsuleers acquiring missions for capsuleer agents and taking a cut from the profits. Missions that lead to countless people dying. Both have sought redemption amongst the sisters of Eve, a philanthropic organisation. But when they discover that the Sisters are plotting to assassinate Capsuleers, to end their evil they realise they can find revenge too. But revenge leads to unexpected consequences. EVE: THE BURNING LIFE is a fast moving space opera: a tale of revenge and redemption that spans a Universe. 

So says the book description on Amazon.  Click the link below for further details.

Source: Amazon.co.uk

CSM voting has been complete and tallied, and we have our list of winners for the third EVE CSM!

Congratulations to Dierdra Vaal (Valentijn Geirnaert) as the new chairman, and to all the other delegates who are a part of the council.  And a big hand has to go to all the CSM candidates who participated, hopefully they try again next time.

Click through to the dev blog for the full list of results!

Source: Dev Blog

As an aside, I’ll be doing some tweaks to the site over the next while, so it’s possible it might go down while I test some things out.  Suggestions are of course welcome, but changes will probably be happening to the site’s theme and organization of its content.

According to the news, there’s a patch coming for EVE that I’m sure a lot of people have been waiting for.  The Patch Notes themselves are a bit sparse, but here’s the only one anyone really cares about:

Jumping through a gate will no longer cause the client to lock up.

I’m pretty confident that problems associated with this minor issue are few and far between.  I mean who uses gates these days, anyways?

Look for the fix to hit this Tuesday.

Source: Patch Notes

CCP has put up a swanky bit of marketing for the 2009 Fanfest.  There’s all sorts of information on the site including travel and ticket information.  There’s even a photo gallery which dangles the lovely carrot labeled “EVE Girls”.

It appears to be broken, though. “Unable to find the source directory (/www/fanfest.eveonline.com/images/stories/gallery/hawt/), please check if your source directory exists”

Fail, CCP.

Source: EVE Fanfest 2009

Just a quick supplemental to yesterday’s blog, Clear Skies II is out.  I’ve linked to the torrent for it below, click it, download it, watch it.  NOW.

Source: Download

(and seed it too, damn leechers)

The sequel to probably the most incredible player-made EVE video in the history of the planet Earth is nearly upon us.

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Time sure does fly.  EVE is six today!

I could probably write for days about the various crazy adventures I’ve had in EVE over the last six years but that would be a lot of work.  However one thing that really stands out for me is how much of the EVE game itself has changed, and how much of that change is due in large part to the players themselves.

We’ve seen massive alliances rise from nothing and disappear into oblivion years later after waging war with others and destroying gajillions of isk worth of hardware.  We’ve seen economic upheavals in game that rival (and sometimes mirror) real-world issues.

Best of all, the actions of even a single player here and there have caused the biggest disruptions in the game’s history.  Massive corporate thefts and one-click alliance disbandings are just the start.

The future’s looking bright with expansions like Ambulation promising to add entirely new types of content to the game.  Whether you’ll love it or not you have to admit that these newly opened doors could allow for amazing content down the road as features mature and integrate more.

For those of us who’ve been here from the start, I salute you for sticking around through all the drama. 

For those who haven’t, while I envy you going through those first wide-eyed days in the game, I also hope you keep on making the game interesting.

For those who have yet to dip their toes, come on in — the water’s fine, and we always love seeing more targets.

Happy Birthday, EVE

Source: Forum Thread