Simon & Schuster Interactive sends along an updated release date for EVE Online: The Second Genesis, saying the science fiction MMORPG is now expected to ship to stores in North America and Europe on May 6. The updated release date will be among the topics of their developer chat, scheduled today for 6:00 PM EST on IRC servers gate.shadowworld.net or IRC.shadowworld.net in the channel #evegate. Finishing off this round of EVE news, is word they are still accepting beta testers for the game, and sign-ups are being taken here. In other chat-related news, there's an A Tale in the Desert House of Commons chat planned this evening at 7:30 PM EST in #ATITDHOC on Stratics irc.stratics.com, port 6667. In a final bit of chat-o-rama, there's an Anarchy Online Shadowlands Q&A on Gamer's Hell conducted during a chat with the developers discussing beta testing of the upcoming AO expansion.