TL;DR: As of July 10, 2013, we’re changing the minimum and recommended system specifications for EVE Online and adding official Windows 8 support. On Windows, minimum system is now a AMD X2600 or NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GPU, and a dual core CPU @ 2.0 GHz. Recommended system is an AMD Radeon 6790 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 GPU, and a quad core CPU @ 2.0 GHz.

After a nail biting silent auction we have our winners and competitors for Alliance Tournament XI. I know a lot of you are bursting with excitement to find out who got in so without further ado here are your 32 teams that qualified through the silent auction. Everybody ready? Everybody gripping their chairs with excitement? Everybody have a buddy nearby to catch you if you faint? Ok, that’s enough of that. Silent auction Random draw CAStabouts Confederation of xXPIZZAXx Choke Point Moist. Curat...

With the sign-ups for Alliance Tournament XI in full swing, we in the Tournament Team thought it would be a nice time to draw attention to some changes to the tournament from last year. As we mentioned previously the cost of signing up to the random draw is only 5 PLEX.

Greetings space fans, We had something a little different to show off at this year's Fanfest: a fully functional virtual reality game prototype called EVE-VR! The game placed you in the cockpit of a fighter, engaging enemies in intense dogfights across the EVE Online® universe. EVE-VR sparked a lot of interest from both players and the press, so we decided to write a devblog explaining how this idea came about, and what it was like developing a game for virtual reality. (Click To Enlarge) Backg...

Hello, we at Team Klang hope that you have enjoyed playing EVE Online: Odyssey so far and in particular all the changes made to the audio of EVE. With the Odyssey expansion, a lot of new features were introduced and these require audio attention. In this DEV Blog, I (CCP WhiteNoiseTrash) will go through some of the thoughts and the creative process behind the sounds of the new transitions: between jump gates, docking and undocking and when being podded.

EVE TV & Alliance Tournament XI Greetings fans of space pew pew. Behold some updates regarding this year’s Alliance Tournament, scheduled for the 20th of July (yes its that close). Team Signups are open this week! Signups are currently available to alliance executors until 23:59 UTC on the 9th of June and teams that sign up through this process will go into a random draw next week, where we will draw the first 32 teams. Get your alliance executor to log into account management to sign up right ...

Voting has now closed on True Stories and we have the winners. In total, 767 stories were submitted. As stated before, the 1st-prize winner will receive a decade's subscription to EVE as well as a free trip to Iceland for two to meet with CCP devs.

A few weeks before a big expansion hits usually is the time for reflection on how well we have packed things together. In our case here, it’s all about having a final look at the ships we are tackling for Odyssey. And by “we”, I mean our team of rabid ship designing slave-monkeys, mainly CCP Fozzie and Rise. So total, we are bringing you 40 revamped hulls in the next expansion, 4 of these being new – which fit as part of a Navy theme to complement the recent storyline events in New Eden, as req...

Greeting capsuleers, this is CCP Frellicus from Team Five 0 here to introduce our latest addition to the exploration of space in the universe of New Eden. I’m talking about a system that has been aptly dubbed “the sensor overlay”. Before we delve into the specifics of the sensor overlay let’s have a few words from my good teammate CCP Greyscale about the general premise of the feature. So as part of the overall "exploration" package for Odyssey, we (ie Team Five 0, with UI-design direction from...

Who reads these days? Reading is for nerds (what, you're reading this? Shhhh! Don't tell anyone)! But seriously, everyone loves stories and EVE Online has a ton of amazing lore behind it. From stories of epic battles, to cruel betrayal, to dying old men and more, the EVE Universe is rich with fiction.

Greetings, My name is CCP Spitfire; some of you might remember me from the forum days of old. I used to be a Russian community coordinator for EVE Online, and now I am a part of the CCP sales team. We work on setting up partnerships with game retailers and distributors to bring EVE Online to the masses, and also manage CCP’s ETC reseller and affiliate programs. Today I would like to tell you about our new initiative that has been in the works for some time.

Hi all, I'm back to tell you about a few Little Things we are changing in EVE Online: Odyssey. OK, to be honest, I'm a little embarrassed to even mention the first one because it's such a tiny tiny change, but since you guys have been asking for it I should tell you about it: you can now make the input field in chat a single line and gain like 20 extra pixels! Yay! :) You also wanted to be able to open more than one stored fitting window at a time, so now if you SHIFT-click a fitting link, the ...

Hello sportsfans! It is once again that most wonderful time of year, Alliance Tournament Season! It is once again time for the alliances in New Eden to pit themselves against their peers in epic combat, where they fly ships out of their own hangars so each loss matters . Last year we had a spectacular tournament capped off with Verge of Collapse's victory in the finals, and I'm certain this year will be even better. We've been requesting commentator applications for the past few weeks and we're...

Hello capsuleers! This is SoniClover from team Super Friends, telling you about some of the things the team has been working on for EVE Online: Odyssey's June 4th release. The team took part in the theme-conception work overseen by CCP Seagull earlier in the year. From that work the exploration theme emerged as something we wanted to focus the expansion on.

Odyssey nears with all its cool world shaping features and we want to employ every medium at our disposal to brief you on what is coming, and to give you a good idea of how it will affect the universe which you inhabit by choice.

Hello pilots. My name is CCP Sharq and I‘m a UI designer for EVE Online. I‘m a part of Team Pony Express, that focuses on User Experience for EVE Online. When looking at and playing EVE one day, looking for what to tackle next for our team, we noticed that the left mouse button is more or less underutilized when interacting with the client.

There are dozens of EVE Online podcasts, ranging from small affairs designed to be listened to by a few corporations to much larger ones which attempt to tackle the politics of the entire universe. In such a crowded pond, it is difficult to be a fish that stands out. But Crossing Zebras has managed to do just that and has gained wide renown as one of the better podcasts ever produced in EVE Online's history. History Crossing Zebras first went live on April 4th, 2012, with the first podcast goin...

Can we have your stuff? (for a book*) If you were watching the "CCP Presents" keynote at Fanfest this year you'll recall a slightly bulbous English fellow bumbling on about some book or other.

Now is the moment of truth. As of midnight EVE time on May 6th we closed the True Stories website for new submissions, and opened it up for voting. The voting period is two weeks, ending May 21st. As previously stated, there are rewards for the five top voted stories: 1.

Dear alt-loving capsuleers, Many of us here have been playing EVE long before we started working at CCP. As such, a lot of ideas and improvements come from our own experience and (sometimes) frustrations with EVE. Alt accounts play a large role in EVE so training and keeping them shouldn't be a hassle.