EVECAST.TV will be hosting monthly PvP tournaments that start the first Sunday of every month. These events will be video broadcast live at EVECAST.TV. For more details concerning the monthly PvP tournaments, visit the EVECAST.TV website. 

EVE is a beautiful universe, no doubt about it. If you find it inspiring, head on over to Starfleetcomms for your chance to win ISK and PLEX by writing a short story based on an image of a sleek Gallente ship warping through a system. Warp to Starfleetcomms for information on how you can enter.

Today, July 25 at 19:00 UTC I will be hosting a swap meet in Rens, Dodixie, and Amarr. Everyone is invited to fill up their industrials or freighters and fly out for some good times. Our friends at EVE University and EVE Radio have some fun planned as well. So tune into EVE Radio, come on down to see what EVE University has planned for you, and check out this forum thread.

What can be more fun that blowing up ships with Planetary Interaction products in their cargohold? Not much, according to Battleclinic, who are running a giveaway over the next few days in which pilots can earn EVE Store credit for ship kills. Full details are available here.

Known for creating animated avatars, EVE Avatar is giving away four $50 EVE Store gift certificates. Drawings will be held once a week from July 25 through August 15, 2010. To enter into the drawing click HERE. 

CCP will be attending Gamescom 2010 in Cologne from Thursday, August 19 to Sunday, August 22. We will have a booth available for player meet ups or for players to come and talk to us. Full details can be found in this thread.

CCP Zulu talks development and clarifies the near future of EVE with the latest dev blog.

On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 after Tranquility returns to service from its scheduled downtime, changes to the PLEX system will be engaged. Read all about the changes in CCP Zulu's newest dev blog.

The meeting minutes for the first CSM 5 summit at the CCP headquarters in Reykjavik are now available. Click here to take a look!

When a man of "unique" talents is saved from a savage beating by two mysterious gentlemen, he finds that perhaps being saved is more like making a deal with the devil. But does he have a choice?

"The Resurrection Men" is a new EVE Chronicle written by CCP Abraxas. Published every other Monday, Chronicles are intended to examine the various aspects of life in New Eden. The entire list is contained here, and a comment thread for this particular story may be found here.

Our next mass testing will take place Thursday, July 15, at 20:00 UTC, and CCP is seeking the help of alliances and all other players. CCP seeks a minimum of 300 pilots for this latest round of mass testing, 500 pilots or more is preferable, and the testing will last for one hour. We will be testing the overview, fleet jumping/lag, and brackets. See this thread for all info about how you can get involved.

Mondes Persistants has published an interview with Hjalti "Abraxas" Daníelsson, author of the new EVE Online novel The Burning Life and more Chronicles than there are stars in the universe. After you're finished reading the interview, be sure to check out their contest (English version) for your chance to win the official EVE Online novels and more.

Today Eva "Ankhesentapemkah" Jobse was removed from the Council of Stellar Management due to a breach of the non-disclosure agreement (NDA). We are deeply saddened but feel that it was the only possible solution in order to protect the integrity of the Council of Stellar Management. As this is a matter regarding confidential data we do consider this to be a private issue between Eva and CCP, therefore we are unable to comment further.

OnlineWelten takes their readers through a tour of the new content in EVE Online in their latest special article, Permission to Land Granted! Planetary Interaction, EVE Gate and the general updates introduced in the recent Tyrannis expansion are highlighted, along with a few words regarding the highly anticipated avatars in EVE and the ties to DUST 514.

"The Icelandic pay-to-play MMO is the game with the most and most faithful subscribers in Europe and North America, second only to World of Warcraft, breaking one record after another."

Read Permission to Land Granted! in German at OnlineWelten.de. German isn't your native tongue? Translate it here.

Due to the extended Tranquility downtime, our next mass testing will take place Saturday, July 3, at 20:00 UTC, and CCP is seeking the help of alliances and all other players. CCP seeks a minimum of 300 pilots for this latest round of mass testing, 500 pilots or more is preferable, and the testing will last for one hour. See this thread for all info about how you can get involved.

This test will include testing possible improvements to fleet jump issues so the more players we have the better.