The PLEX for Good: Japan drive is currently ongoing and will be ending March 31, 2011 at 23:59 UTC. As of this morning 110 contracts and 210 PLEX have been donated. For more information on how you can donate and help the Japanese earthquake relief efforts read this dev blog.

Hours for PLEX, a service which allows a player to temporarily re-open their account so they can apply PLEX and reactivate a subscription, has been re-enabled. Accounts using this feature will be open for no longer than four hours.

Downtime on Thursday, March 17, will be extended by two hours for a database hardware upgrade. Tranquility and EVE Online web services (including API, account management pages and the forums) will be offline from 11:00 to 13:00. We would like to thank you for your patience and understanding. More in

Sarum Prime, Domain - A Sani Sabik modelling contest, hosted by Revan Neferis, has judged the field down to a final 5 of 100 original entrants. Announcement of the final winner is expected shortly, along with the distribution of the 2 billion ISK prize fund. As a Sani Sabik event, the contest emphas

Over the weekend New Eden Radio held interviews with a number of CSM delegates. See here for more information and hear the entire four hour broadcast.

The next mass test will take place on Thursday, March 17 at 20:00 UTC, and will bring our new Duality test server in the spotlight for the first time. Besides testing the general performance of the new server, we will be focusing on low-sec starbase improvements. We are looking for a minimum of 300

CCP Hypnotic's newest dev blog announces Duality, our new test server focusing on event testing. More information about Duality can also be found on the EVElopedia page, and discussion about Duality is welcome on our Test Server Feedback channel.

On Tuesday, March 15 there will be an extended downtime for Tranquility that will run for one hour from 11:00 UTC to 12:00 UTC. During this time we will be deploying new start up code to improve the reliability of the server startup process. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this

The latest episode of the EVE Commune podcast has been released, and it features an interview with CCP Xhagen, the gentle giant behind the Council of Stellar Management. You may listen to the newest podcast here.

In an exclusive interview, Clear Skies creator, John Rourke, discusses his upcoming movie, Clear Skies 3\. He also speaks of the time and effort that goes into making the series, plus provides exclusive content for the upcoming movie. John told of how long Clear Skies 3 has taken to create. It was