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The QTec LAN party folks are planning an all-nighter Counter-Strike tournament at The Playing Fields in London next month, with eight clans fighting it out over twelve hours through the night, starting at 10pm. Appropriately titled "Midnight Incursion", you can find more information about the event on their website...

Hot news just in is that Rebellion, the Oxford based developer behind Aliens vs Predator and the forthcoming team-based action adventure game Gunlok, have purchased cult sci-fi comic book 2000AD. The deal gives them the rights to make games based on the company's characters and settings, including of course the famous "Judge Dredd".

"Star Trek : New Worlds" boldly takes the Trek franchise where no Star Trek computer game has gone before, focusing on ground combat rather than the traditional starship shenanigans. Originally under development by old school BritSoft company Binary Asylum, production shifted to an in-house team at Interplay late last year.

The Spookhouse have assembled three new user-made missions for Nocturne.

The official website for this August's CPL-Europe "Scandinavian Open" Quake 3 tournament is now online, giving more details of the $25,000 event and all the various qualifiers for it which are taking place around Europe. You can also find information about the venue and tournament on the website, as well as a registration form for the event. There are still plenty of places free, so if you fancy your chances sign up...

For those of you wanting to get behind your country in a game you care about (football? what that?), the UT Council sent word that they are planning an European Unreal Tournament competition with national teams battling it out for King and Country (or something). If you want to find out more or are interested in playing Unreal Tournament for your country, head over to the UT Council website to find out more...

Our third and final (for now at least) batch of exclusive new screenshots from the third person sci-fi shooter "Soldier" are now online. Once again, the shots are taken from a beta version of the game using a GeForce 2 graphics card - 1024x768 in 32 bit colour, with full-scene anti-aliasing switched on. You can check out the latest shots here, or if you missed the earlier ones you can find the full gallery here. Look for a big hands-on preview of the game within the next week...

It's the one we've all been waiting for, the game to redeem Ion Storm after the decidedly mediocre Dominion and Daikatana, the latest masterpiece from industry veteran Warren Spector. Yes, it's Deus Ex, and according to the latest release schedule from Eidos it will finally be released in the UK on August 4th. For all the latest UK release information, direct from the publishers, check EuroGamer's UK release date list - now tracking UK release dates for over a hundred games!

New today on EuroGamer is a brief hands-on preview of Jetfighter IV, the latest in the long-running series of action-oriented flight sims from Velocity. We got our hands on some beta code thanks to publisher Take 2 Interactive, who have the game pencilled in for release at the end of October. To find out more, read our preview!

Jet Fighter is a name that should ring loud through the halls of flight sim fame. Since the original Jet Fighter from Velocity, this series has offered a slightly more arcade style flight sim which concentrated more on actual flight combat, and less on the gory details of 'engage target systems, adjust radar range, activate missiles'...

The game that came from nowhere to take over the world only gets bigger, fresh from his 1000+ person chat with Gameplay Counter Strike development team member Cliffe had a chat with the folks at GibMe. Its quite a concise interview, but ut still hits on some interesting subjects. Right into the thorny issue of Valves new net code, and the opinion of some people that it spoils the latest release of CS 6.6, "This was a *huge* overhaul of code, so much was changed. It's almost like starting over, like shipping the game anew. So there are bound to be bugs. And those bugs will be worked out."

BattleTop, who run a tournament league in Korea, are making a move into America this year, and Cached has interviewed their American tournament co-ordinator, Kevin Hadfield to find out more. "I see it as the new PGL or a new NFL for cyber sports", Kevin told Cached, adding that "we not only want other tournaments such as the CPL to succeed, but we want every one to work together in making this a pro sport". For the full story, read the interview on Cached.

The old BW-Admin plug-in .dll for Quake 2 is now open source, allowing other developers to update the bot and cheat detection modette.

According to Elan Lee of Digital Anvil, their new game "Loose Cannon utilized a state of art engine developed at Digital Anvil. An incredible clipping distance, dynamic lighting, ultra realistic physics, deformable meshes, and weather effects are just some of it's features".

GameSpy have posted an interview with Bjorn Lynne, the Norwegian musician now living in deepest darkest Yorkshire who is behind the soundtracks of the Worms series and Alien Breed 3D amongst other games.

We're happy to unveil a new league today here at EuroGamer, the "PC Gamer Counter-Strike Championship", run in association with the OGA, WON.net Europe, and PC Gamer - the UK's biggest selling PC gaming magazine. Over the next few months 64 Counter-Strike clans will be battling it out on the "Bomb" and "Hostage Rescue" maps, and there are dozens of copies of Team Fortress 2 and Tribes 2 up for grabs in the competition.

EuroGamer's coverage of last weekend's UK qualifier for the CPL-Europe "Scandinavian Open" is now complete, with the addition of a photo gallery, interviews with the two grand finalists, and a final round-up of the tournament. Check the index page for a full list of the coverage, which includes match reports, results, demos, interviews and photographs. EuroGamer - number one for live coverage!

Today's review here on EuroGamer takes a look at Croc 2, a Playstation platform game that has made the migration to the PC courtesy of Fox Interactive and Argonaut. Is it just another Mario wannabe, or is it worth a look? What the heck is OmniPlay? Are the graphics up to scratch, or is this yet another dodgy console port? For the answer to all these questions and more, read our review!

There seems to be a growing number of console to PC conversions happening these days, and Croc 2 is the latest of this gaggle of games. And so now it's time for us to find out why over a million Playstation owners got in a fuss about their very own Mario 64 clone...

is a new site featuring stories and poems inspired by computer games and written by gamers. For those of you missing the old days of Quake haiku, here's a sample of the lost art from GLC -

Barrysworld's Quake III European Championship kicks off this weekend, with the first matches in this Europe-wide Quake 3 Arena teamplay tournament. The 27 countries represented, from Ireland to the Ukraine and Iceland to Cyprus, are split between six qualifier groups and will fight it out online over the next couple of months, with the winners from each group and two runners-up taking part in the LAN-based finals in London this September. For more information, check the European Championship website.

A demo version of 3D accelerated online game Clusterball has been released by Daydream Software. Clusterball is billed as a "future sport" which sees you flying around grabbing balls and dragging chains of them through goal rings to score, while fighting off your opponents. It certainly looks interesting, and the demo should keep you amused until the game is released on July 17th. To find out more, check the Clusterball website.

PlanetVampire have posted a guide to using Embrace, the level editor for Vampire

There are still a dozen places left for EuroGamer's EuroLAN #2 LAN party, taking place in Brighton, England on the weekend of July 15th - 16th. The party will now include an Unreal Tournament duel tournament, as well as the Quake 2 Lithium, Quake 3 and Counter-Strike tournaments we have already announced. Prizes include Thunderbird CPUs and motherboards courtesy of AMD, who are also providing 1GHz processors to power our servers.

Last week EuroGamer's John "Gestalt" Bye was one of a handful of journalists let into Microsoft's Windows Game Developers Conference at the Hilton Metropol in London, and over the next few weeks we will be bringing you a series of articles about the next version of DirectX.

UbiSoft sent word that the official website for Deep Fighter has been launched. The game, developed by Britsoft company Criterion Studios, is described by them as a "shooter-puzzler" which takes you to the bottom of the ocean for some deep sea action. Full details on the game, including screenshots, videos, music samples and a "making of" section, can all be found on the new Deep Fighter website.

You might be mistaken for thinking that the PC was dead as a gaming platform, given some of the comments that have been coming out of the gaming industry recently. Far from it, says Microsoft. But then, they would, wouldn't they?

It's interesting how a games company goes about making its money, the routes and angles it takes to make that few quid to get that new Ferrari you've been looking at. One of the big ways, that Joe Punter on the street would not realize, that letting someone else use, or licensing your game engine. The engine is the core code behind the game. Its interesting to hear that id Software make more money out of their engine licensing than they do from making actual games, licensing a game engine is by no means cheap! Some of the top games on the market use the engines from different games, Half Life uses a cross between the Quake 1 and Quake 2 engines, Soldier of Fortune uses the Quake 2 engine.

It is well documented about how much I loved the original Tribes , and indeed about how anxiously I await Tribes 2. It looks to be every bit a worthy successor to the original classic. The lucky lads over at Tribes 2 Players got to have a sit down with Mark Frohnmayer, Lead Programmer on the TRIBES 2 Dev Team. They speak about network code, one of the original tribes strongest features, and the making and breaking of a game like Tribes 2.

Processors come think and fast these days, every few months we can one that's faster, or bigger, or one with 'go faster stripes'. No sooner had AMD finished gloating about their 1ghz Athlon and we started hearing about this Duron, the chip that is supposed to knock the celery for six. Intel come back with the wonderfully titles Pentium 4, let alone the current battle for you wallet, raging as I type The folks at Gotapex are as confused as you and I about this processor battle and have posted a Guide to Deciding Which processor Solution is Right for You.