We´ve made some changes to the Buddy System, most notably by adding Open Buddy Invites, a whole new way of recruiting buddies in exchange for rewards. Please read more in this dev blog, and if you have any questions or comments, we have a feedback thread available right here. Yeah, buddy!

The Tuskers corporation is running a frigate free for all this weekend open to the entire EVE community. The event is aimed at encouraging rookie players into PvP combat and will take place between 20:00 and midnight New Eden Standard time on Saturday October 27th, with 3 billion ISK in prizes a

  by ISD Tedra Kerrigan New Eden - On November 3 the special anniversary edition of Reality X's EVE Portraits competition will begin. The competition, which was first held last year, invites capsuleers to submit portraits of themselves, which are then judged for prizes. Entries a

One of our major upstream ISP, gt-t, is doing emergency mainteanance work on October 24, starting at 22:00 UTC to 05:00 UTC. This maintenance work could impact users connected to EVE Online and could cause disconnects. Please note that this emergency maintenance is completely outsides CCP's

CCP gladly announces an officially sponsored and judged Fiction Contest and we invite everyone to participate. The contest has wonderful prizes provided by both our sponsors and EVE Online players, including over 20 billion ISK, multiple PLEX, subscriptions to EON Magazine, and an Nvidia EVGA Supe

Time is running out to register teams and finalize rosters for the upcoming New Eden Open. Teams will have the opportunity to vie for the title of the best tournament team in EVE Online as well as win the following amazing prizes: 1st Place: $6,000 and an in-game medal 2nd Place: $3,000 and an

Further to this news item published on October 8, the EVE Store sale is still ongoing and prices have been further reduced to clear existing stock. This will be the last chance to get your hands on your favorite EVE shirt, or your very own Tempest Battleship while supplies last. Please note that

EVE Online: Inferno 1.3.2 will be deployed on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 during a regular downtime from 11:00 to 11:30 UTC. This update will introduce several changes to Factional Warfare; further details about these changes are available in this devblog. The full patch notes can be found here.

The payment issues announced in a previous news item this morning have been solved.  The number of affected accounts was not substantial but those who were affected are once again encouraged to file a petition in the 'Billing & Account' category for personal assistance.

We are experiencing temporary issues with a few of the payment methods we offer when customers are either upgrading existing trial accounts, or paying for new accounts. This is not affecting any recurring subscriptions or accounts that have been paid for previously. The symptoms are that the affec