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In an interview on DiabloII.net, 3dfx's chief spin doctor Bubba Wolford has commented on the full-scene anti-aliasing vs transform & lighting acceleration debate .. just for a change. Bubba repeats that 3dfx believes "T&L is important for the future", but that "the main difference between T&L and FSAA is that T&L must be coded into the game", whereas FSAA should work with any 3D accelerated game.

Graphics seem to get all the attention these days. Games often rise and fall based on their visuals, and gamers lay down hundreds of pounds on the latest graphics cards and big screen monitors to get the best possible quality. But at the end of the day, as games like System Shock 2 and Thief have proven, sound can be just as important to a game's atmosphere.

Our third and final batch of exclusive new screenshots of "Arcatera : The Dark Brotherhood", the rather odd role-playing game from UbiSoft and Westka Entertainment, are now online here at EuroGamer. Once again they feature a mixture of both cinematic and in-game shots, but this time with the focus more on actual game footage and conversations. If you missed our earlier shots of the game, you can find the whole lot starting here.

UK-based hi-tech music magazine "Future Music" has got together with Sierra to run a competition to remix a piece of music from the forthcoming space-bound strategy game "Homeworld : Cataclysm". The winner will take home £500 in used fivers, as well as having three thousand copies of their meisterwerk lovingly pressed into 12" vinyl and distributed to DJs and radio stations around the country. Sierra are also promising to use the winning piece in their demo of the game later in the year.

Angel Munoz, founder of The CPL, an organisation which has run several major professional gaming events over the last few years, has spoken about how he sees the future of the company and the growth of pro-gaming as a valid sport. "This year the CPL sponsors will give away close to $250,000 in cash prizes. Next year that number will double to $500,000, and the following year it will double again to $1,000,000."

The highly-anticipated Rocket Arena 3 mod for Quake 3: Arena has finally been released! A few last-minute technical problems (who pulled the power cord out of the web server?) meant the release was delayed by a few minutes, but now you can finally find out whether it was worth waiting for.

Today sees the return of our weekly round-up of what's new around the EuroGamer network -

, the Korean online gaming organisation announced today their first foray into pro-gaming in the UK kicking off with a big money tournament to be held at the Millenium Dome. The tournament is intended to promote the British Internet Game League, an on-line ranking system similar to the Korean and American versions already launched.

Our daily dosage of eye candy continues here at EuroGamer, with another batch of eight exclusive new screenshots from the 3D accelerated vehicle based action game, "Infestation". The shots are taken from a review copy of the soon-to-be-released game, using a GeForce 2 graphics card with full-scene anti-aliasing enabled. You know you love it... Go feast your eyes now!

According to publisher Sierra, Diablo II is the fastest selling PC game of all time, with over a million copies sold in the first two weeks of the game's release as it topped charts around the world. If you are looking for a way to get one up on other players, then the game's unofficial website at DiabloII.net is as good a place as any to start.

Today's dose of eye candy here on EuroGamer is a second batch of eight exclusive new screenshots taken from a preview version of "Arcatera : The Dark Brotherhood", a role-playing game from French publisher UbiSoft which is due for release in the UK in mid-August. If you missed the first batch of screenshots, you can find those here.

One of the most anticipated multiplayer action games of the year is "Tribes 2", the sequel to popular team-based first person shooter "Starsiege Tribes". Amongst the new features being added to the sequel is more vehicles to drive and fly around the battlefield in, and in an interview with 3DActionPlanet, producer Dave Georgeson has described how the vehicles add to the game without completely changing the focus.

Games based on old rock bands are generally pretty awful - Iron Maiden's "Ed Hunter" and Queen's "The Eye" spring to mind .. unbidden, like some hideous waking nightmare that you are unable to shake from your memory.

This week we're happy to welcome back Jason Kingsley from British developer Rebellion, who we first interviewed back in March. Since then Rebellion has bought out cult sci-fi comic book company "2000AD", and announced some changes to their latest title, Gunlok. We caught up with Jason to find out more about what the take-over of 2000AD means for the two companies, and what the real truth behind the recent Gunlok announcements is. For the full scoop, read our interview with Jason!

BritSoft developer Rebellion, the company behind last year's hit first person shooter "Aliens vs Predator", surprised the gaming industry two weeks ago by announcing that they had bought cult comic book company 2000AD, the brains behind Mega City 1 cop Judge Dredd and a whole host of other cult characters and settings.

Today's dose of eye candy is a batch of eight exclusive new screenshots of Infestation, the impressive looking vehicle-bound action game from BritSoft company Frontier Developments, the people behind the Elite series and V2000. The shots are taken from a review copy of the game, running on a GeForce 2 GTS graphics card with full-scene anti-aliasing enabled. Mmm... Give that candy a chew!

Thanks to those lovely people at Microsoft we have five copies of their imaginatively titled "Flight Simulator 2000 Professional Edition" to give away to you lucky readers! As you may have guessed from the game's title, it's a flight sim released earlier this year by Microsoft. All you have to do for your chance to win a copy of the game is to send your name and address on the back of an e-mail to john@eurogamer.net, and complete the following sentence - "Flying a jumbo jet is fun, because..."

In the early days of the computer gaming industry, many top games were produced by a handful of geeks working out of somebody's attic or garage. Today games have budgets that can stretch into millions of dollars, and teams can include literally dozens of artists and programmers. Creative control has moved from the designers themselves to the big name publishers who can foot the development bill.

With the imminent release of Deus Ex here in Europe, many people have forgotten that Ion Storm have another promising looking RPG in the works - the Quake 2 engined "Anachronox", produced by a team led by the mad brain that is Tom Hall. In an interview on TechExtreme Andrew Thomas, one of Tom's minions, reported that "development is coming along great".

Eidos have launched the official website for their promising looking tactical shooter "Project IGI", or "I'm Going In" as the Yanks call it. The site includes a detailed look at the game's storyline, as well as screenshots, movies and renders from the game, as well as information about the weapons, with a series of developers' diaries coming soon. The site is rather Flash heavy, making it a little unfriendly for us poor modem users .. oh, and if you're epileptic, watch out for that strobing loading screen - eugh.

NetKills have slapped up an article about making models for Half-Life / Counter-Strike

New today on EuroGamer is a massive in-depth review of "The New Adventures Of The Time Machine", a gorgeous new 3D adventure game from French purveyors of the bizarre Cryo Interactive, rather loosely based on the classic HG Wells novel "The Time Machine". Can the gameplay and storyline match the graphics? Does the game live up to the Time Machine name? And will you be able to undo the damage which Herbert George Wells has caused with his time travelling? Read our review to find out more!

It's the 1st of January 1893. Herbert Wells prepares to realise a life's dream .. to travel through time. The design and construction of the Time Machine took almost ten years, but now it is ready to be tested.

Something, which I found interesting, is the latest in Gamasutras excellent series of articles on life and time in the gaming industry. Today they look at something that has only really become apparent in the industry in the last months. The fact that it is becoming increasingly common to see harsh reviews or bad press that devastate a game's popularity and sales performance.

Kuju Entertainment is one of the biggest developers in Europe. Based just outside of London. It has a reputation for being on the cutting edge of technology. Microsoft approached Kuju to do a demo for the XBox, and the result was Tau, a colorful and ethereal demonstration of what the XBox can do. That was the demo that stunned people during Bill Gates first XBox presentation at last years Games Developers Conference.

The much maligned Macintosh games market got a shot in the arm this morning as Microsoft announced as it was to form an alliance with a new startup company with the aim of bringing key Microsoft titles to the world of the Macintosh. The new startup company headed by Peter Tamte, who was the founder of MacSoft, former senior director of worldwide consumer marketing for Apple Computer Inc. and former executive vice president of Bungie Software Products Corp.

has been updated with a report on the recent Ladies Night which they hosted, which saw female gamers descending on the London venue to frag the night away in aid of the Breast Cancer Campaign. In the end they managed to raise £650 for the charity, a worthy reason for a night's hardcore gaming if you ask me. For the full story and photographs (including an amusing one of a journalist who tried to sneak into the party in drag!), read the report over at the TPF website.

Videologic announced today that they are about to release their new SonicFury soundcard, or "audio accelerator" as they call it. Weighing in at just £80, the card supports all the major sound APIs (DirectSound3D, EAX, Sensaura, A3D and DLS) as well as featuring full Dolby Digital support for DVD fanatics such as myself, and has more input and output jacks than you would know what to do with. The SonicFury also boasts a dynamic Digital Signal Processor which allows acceleration of everything from 3D sound effects to MP3 playback.

Today's preview here on EuroGamer takes a hands-on look at "X-Tension", the massive mission pack for last year's free-form space trading and combat sim "X : Beyond The Frontier". The original game promised to be an Elite for the new millenium, but fell rather short of its ambitions, earning a meagre 3/10 when we reviewed it last October. But X-Tension looks to correct most of the flaws of the original, giving X a whole new lease of life. For the full story and four new screenshots of the stunning new graphics engine, read our preview!

Back in the early days of EuroGamer, October last year to be precise, we reviewed "X : Beyond The Frontier". Touted as an Elite for the next century, the game sadly fell far short of its ambitions, and our review labelled it as "dull, tedious, repetitive, boring, and highly frustrating".