The third issue od E-ON, the EVE Online paper magazine, is already available for preorder. If you are interested or you you just want a peak at the cover picture, enjoy this link .

And do not forget that if you have never tried EVE Online before, OGRank gives you the possibility to try it for free for 14 days! Just follow this link .

Gamersinfo interviews Noah Baker, Game Designer for EVE Online. Noah's task is currently the one of "balancing various aspects of the game including but not limited to; Market, Blueprints, Ships, Modules and other aspects mostly dealing with the player vs player side of the game".

Many thanks to Sidewinder for sending us a reminder about the new record of concurrent users logged in on EVE Online. Yesterday the cluster reached a peak of 25,665 players. Congratulations!

More changes (Again? Cool!) are being planned for EVE NPCs. Rat killing has never been so much fun! No, really, I like those changes. They are replacing most of the frigates from high level missions with destroyers, Cruisers with Battlecruisers and so on.

A new EVE patch was released yesterday to fix some remaining issues after the deployment of the Bloodlines Patch. Here is more about the Bloodlines patch , or read further for this last patch details.

The latest big EVE Patch named Bloodlines (or in short Blood) has been pushed on the Tranquillity cluster. The patch process has been a bit painful as the developers admits, and some after patch bugs have been already be discovered.

The Bloodlines patch will be released next thursday. If you don't know what this patch is about please check it here . The Power of 2 promotion will be active again, giving current players the chance to get a new account with 6 months of gametime from 49.95 €/$.

The last record we reported was for 23,000 players concurrently logged in. But is it lagging?

How many skillspoints do you need in EVE to be competitive? And to start PvP? This is probably the most common questions that EVE players and wannabe do. In a recent Dev blog, Oveur covered the matter querying the players population from the game server. The results are interesting.