The latest EVE Online trailer, Causality, was released at PAX Prime 2010. Causality is all about calculated vengeance in EVE, and how your actions in the sandbox can come back to burn you. Watch the Causality trailer and enter to win custom gaming loot in the EVE Universal Glory Sweepstakes.

Mass testing is an effort undertaken by both CCP and the EVE player base in the war on lag. Hundreds of players have participated so far in the Summer mass tests, and we're making progress as seen in the results here. CCP is still seeking your help in our continued efforts to improve EVE's performance through weekly mass testing, and we hope you'll join us in the next test today, September 2, at 20:00 UTC.

EVE Online: Tyrannis 1.0.5 has been deployed successfully and Tranquility is now accepting connections. You can review the list of fixes and changes at our patch notes page.

Forum threads are available in the EVE Information Portal for players to give feedback and alert us to any issues they may be experiencing.

Have you ever wanted to bring Jita to its knees? CCP is inviting you to do just that on Sunday, September 5, 2010. We've established a dedicated node for Jita, backed up by new hardware, and now we want to put it to the test. We invite all capsuleers to join us in Jita between 20:00 and 21:00 UTC this Sunday, and help us set a new record for players logged into the trade hub.

EVE Online Romania are offering pilots all over the galaxy the opportunity to win one of 4 x $50 coupons to the EVE Store in their fantastic giveaway. In order to participate in this giveaway you must have an ACTIVE EVE Online account and a valid email address. For further details on how to win simply visit their site and find out how to participate.

EVE-Pirate are running a competition in which you, the talented Capsuleer, can earn one of four $50 coupons to be used in the EVE Store. On top of the $50 prize, winning authors will also be given senior author membership which gives them the ability to post new entries to EVE-Pirate.com at will. For further details please see this link.

The EVE Online Store is kicking off its Fall Sale, with special prices you won't want to miss out on. If you've ever wanted a ship model, act now while they're priced at $98.99. If the EVE: Conquests Board Game is more your speed, it's now available for $45.99. Plus, select men's and women's tees are discounted at $14.99. The sale runs through September 30, 2010, and you can see the full listing of Fall Sale specials here.

The deployment of Tyrannis 1.0.5 has been postponed to Thursday, September 2, 2010, due to issues discovered during QA testing. Deployment will begin at 11:00 UTC and is expected to be completed at 12:30 UTC. Tyrannis 1.0.5 patch notes are available for review.

Our next mass test on the Singularity test server will be held on Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 20:00 UTC and is expected to last 1.5 hours. This mass test will focus on testing jumping and module lag, as well as EVE Voice.  We're seeking at least 350 pilots, though 550 or more would be ideal.  More info about the mass test can be found in this thread, and we're seeking your feedback here.

CCP and Bigfoot Networks will be giving away prizes every day during September including 30 PLEX, 30 T-Shirts and two Killer^TM 2100 network cards. In order to participate you need to "Like" both the EVE Online and Bigfoot Networks Facebook pages. Two prizes will be awarded daily and winners will be announced on Facebook. You can also participate to increase your chances of winning by visiting the CCP booth at PAX and signing up for the event. So make sure you become a fan as soon as possible, and invite all your friends along.

During downtime on Monday, August 30 and Tuesday, August 31 the EVE Online websites will be offline between 11:00 to 11:30 UTC. This downtime will be used to upgrade the firmware on all websites and will affect the eveonline.com, account management, EVE API, bug reporting and customer support sections of the website and EVE Gate.

During downtime on Wednesday, August 25, 2010, new hardware was deployed on a dedicated node for Jita and is being used to test the impact of a new processor specification and low latency memory. We encourage players to show up and give us feedback on performance in this thread. 

Over the last week we've published a number of detailed blogs on the myriad steps we have been taking to tackle the lag issue many players have been reporting. If you've not yet done so, we encourage you to check out the following blogs:

• Need for MOAR Speed - CCP Zulu announces the Fixing Lag series
• Fostering Meaningful Human Interaction, Through Testing and Communication - CCP Tanis shares recent mass test results
• The Long Lag - CCP Warlock discusses the problems inherent with distributed real-time systems
• And I, For One, Welcome Our New Automaton Overlords - CCP Atropos unveils the new "thin client" developer tool
• Carbon and the Core Technology Group - CCP Unifex shares CCP's Carbon framework and discusses the Core Technology Group
• Character Nodes - CCP Atlas shares the work being done on character nodes
• Module Lag: Why Not All Bugfixes Are a Good Idea - CCP Veritas reveals how module lag can be problematic

Our newest Chronicle, "Burnt," has been published.

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

Our next mass test on the Singularity test server will be held on Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 20:00 UTC and is expected to last 1.5 hours. We would like at least 300 pilots (500 is ideal). More information about the test can be found in this thread. Feedback about the test can be shared in this thread.

For those of you interested in learning more about mass tests and our most recent results, be sure to check out CCP Tanis's newest dev blog.