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-yawn- I'm blind in one eye, and can't see out of the other, but I have some more demos for y'all. I've now added all 3 semi-final matches, as well as the Finals of the Lower bracket. Check our CPL index page and click on the match you want to see. I've added links to the end of the match summary for each game. I will add the Quater Finals and Third round matches in the morning, and slowly work backwards to the Free For Alls. So if the demo you want to see isn't available, check back soon.

Your roving reporter Gestalt is now safely back home in Leicester, and full match reports on all of the final and grand final matches, as well as several of the semi and quarter final games, are now online here at EuroGamer. These are in addition to the results and match reports from the first three rounds which we posted earlier in the day live from London. For a full listing of our coverage from this weeked, check the index page.

It's taken forever to assemble (cheers Spizzy) but we have the full set of demos from today's Euro-CPL qualifier event. BUT, due to a minor admin error (cheers Spizzy), many of the 200-odd demos have spaces in their window-long-filenames, which Quake3 can't handle. So just for tonight we bring you the Blokey vs Timber Final: Match 1 (556k), and Match 2 (510k). Tomorrow, some lucky person will sift through and replace all the spaces with underscores [well volunteered Geoff! - Ed]. It's been a long day, so please be patient.

After another tight final match, Timber walks away with the prize money and berth into the Stockholm tournament; the final score 8 : 6. Both players played to the full extent of their abilities, but suffering from a few awkward respawns, Blokey never looked like taking the lead. With a few frags in the final minute, Timber often waited the full ten seconds to spawn again, quite fearful of Blokey's wrath. Nonetheless, he was the better player. Congratulations on a great performance, Timber! Our coverage will be up very soon and demos will be up within an hour or two. Eurogamer - number one for live event coverage!

In breaking news, the Euro CPL qualifier is turning out to be just as nerve-wracking as the Euro 2000 final. Having beaten Timber into the Loser's Bracket already, Blokey came up against the Clan 9 member again - if Blokey wins, he wins. However, the game has just finished 15-5, meaning this is the Golden Goal of matches. Whoever wins this walks away with £500 and a paid flight out to Stockholm of the "Scandanavian Open". Stay tuned...

The first round of finals here at the CPL-Europe qualifier in London are now over, with Blokey defeating Timber 5 : 4 in a very close match as they went into extra time in the winners bracket. Meanwhile in the losers bracket, Luke beat Requiem 18 : 12. Timber will now play Luke, with the winner of that game going on to play Blokey (again) in the grand final. And because Blokey has come through the winners bracket, whoever plays him will have to beat him twice!

The quarter finals are now taking place here at the UK qualifer for the CPL-Europe "Scandinavian Open". Full reports on the quarter final matches between Blokey and Mozilla, as well as Timber vs Veno are already up, with the semi-finals and some losers bracket matches on the way. We also have full results and more reports on matches from the first three rounds online - check the index page for a full list of our coverage so far.

Our coverage of the UK qualifier for the CPL-Europe "Scandinavian Open" continues here on EuroGamer, with full results and a selection of short match reports now up for the first and second rounds, as well as some results from the third round (which is still underway) and a write-up of Timber's match against Sky. For all the latest coverage, check the index page.

Thanks as usual to event organisers The Playing Fields.

In case you haven't been keeping track, our coverage of the Euro CPL Qualifiers at TPF in London is continuing. Full reports on the seeding rounds and the first round proper, including some particularly savage beatings at the hands of Erazer and Duellist. Our second round coverage is just kicking off, with some particularly impressive performances from Blokey and Erazer again.

Good morning! This is John Bye and Tom Bramwell reporting live from The Playing Fields in London, the location of the CPL-Europe UK qualifier, taking place throughout today. This time round we'll be bringing you blow by blow updates and match reports throughout the day, and the odd interview here and there too. Check back frequently for the latest additions to our coverage.

An old man with a bizarre name and a clichéd heritage visits our samurai-teaching hero, called (funnily enough) Hiro Miyamoto. Via in-game cutscenes the old man relays the plot and your mission - to rescue his daughter and wield the time-travelling sword known as Daikatana against some dictatorial chap.

is the first in a series of net-based games to come from Swedish developer Daydream Software. Described by them as a "wild, future sport game where several players, anywhere in the world, can connect and compete against each other", the idea of this 3D accelerated game is to fly around grabbing balls and dragging chains of them through goal rings to score.

Our coverage of tomorrow's UK qualifier for CPL-Europe's big "Scandinavian Open" has kicked off, with a look at the rules and the latest seeding groups for the qualifier, as well as our selection of some of the main competitors. We are one of only two sites with online coverage rights for the qualifier, so look for all the latest news and results live from London tomorrow, as well as our usual match reports and analysis during and after the event. EuroGamer - number one for live event coverage!

Romanian company AMC Creation have just announced that they are working on a real time strategy game called "NoNameWar". Set in the far future, the game will feature massive randomly generated maps, as many as three hundred different polygonal units, day and night cycles, weather effects, dynamic lighting, and support for up to sixteen people to play together. To find out more, check the AMC Creation website.

Friday is release day for computer games in the UK, and this week we have a bumper harvest. New releases include Dark Reign II, Diablo II, Dukes Of Hazzard, Heroes Of Might & Magic III : Shadows Of Death, Might & Magic VIII, Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball, Test Drive 6 and Vampire : The Masquerade. Thanks as usual to Nemesis for confirming those.

The official UK qualifier for the CPL-Europe "Scandinavian Open" event is taking place at The Playing Fields in London on Sunday, and word is that there are a couple of dozen spaces still open if you fancy your chances. Entry is £15, and there is £1000 in cash prizes up for grabs. The winner of the competition will be flown out to Stockholm to take part in the Scandinavian Open, and four runners up will win auto-berths for the competition, although they will have to pay their own way to get there. For more information, check the Playing Fields website.

This week's interview on EuroGamer is with Shane Gurno of Human Head, talking about the origins of the company, their early work on Daikatana 2, and of course their latest project - the Unreal engined third person Viking action game, "Rune". Shane also discusses how combat works in the game, what the company will be doing to support the online community and mod developers, and the possibility of a sequel. To find out more, read the interview!

Recently we got our first close-up look at Human Head's third person Viking action game, Rune, when Tim Gerritsen gave us a demonstration of the game as part of GOD's press tour of Europe.

Kalisto Entertainment have announced that they are working on a massively multiplayer game based on the cult movie "Highlander", and its numerous spin-offs and sequels. "For the first time, thousands of gamers will simultaneously experience the Highlander adventure on the Internet as they immerse themselves into an interactive mythical universe", says the press release in typical marketing talk.

The list of mergers and acquisions in the computer games world is never ending, every day I seem to be reporting someone bought or wants to buy someone else. Well today's story is that GameSpy is reporting that Infogrames Inc., formerly GT Interactive, is definitely in an acquisition mode, as the ever hungry Frenchmen have acquired Paradigm Entertainment, makers of popular Nintendo 64 titles. Infogrames officials said the company made the move because it is interested in acquiring a developer for the next generation console systems, specifically PS2, X-box, and Dolphin.

One of the more unusual massively multiplayer role-playing games in development at the moment is the Unreal Tournament powered "Shadows of Reality", which makes a refreshing break from the usual orcs and elves posse with its futuristic setting, complete with the Gibson-esque cyberspace of The Grid.

If you ask many gamers what game currently in development they would love to get their hands on you are bound to get hundreds of answers, but I guarantee that one answer that will crop up again and again is Peter Molyneux's Black and White. Those lucky people at Gameplay have bagged a world first play test of the much awaited game.

The news and hype surrounding American McGee's Alice continues to grow and grow. A second hardly seems to pass these days when we don't find someone else with news or views about the game somewhere. Well IGN PC have cut the messing and right to the top for an interview with president of Rogue Entertainment/Producer of Alice Jim Molinets. They have a chat about the games history and the future of the shooter genre.

Its amazing how many people you know who have simply been lost to role playing games. My first experience of knowing people who have lost their lives for months on end to the evil land of the RPG, was when Asheron's Call stole the best players from the UK Tribes community last year, and the top 3 clans in the UK folded in the space of a few months. Activewin grabbed Scott Herrington, the Lead Producer on Asheron's Call for a chat about tree hugging

FragPipe reviews Counter-Life for Half-Life

The folks at Gamers.de have spoken to Raaj Menon, the director of Ellipse Studios about their latest title in development Submarine Titans. The game Submarine Titans is a real-time strategy game set deep in the depths of the ocean. Based in the future after a cataclysm destroyed much of the surface world, humanity retreated into underwater enclaves. Now two rival civilisations have arisen and are seeking to dominate the planet, the aggressive White Sharks and the eco-friendly Black Octopi. However a strange alien race known as the Silicons has been discovered living deep in the seas and appears to have it's own agenda.

Dozens of people have been laid off from Probe by Acclaim this morning according to Computer and Video Games. In what Acclaim call, in typical 90's business speak, a "consolidation of development resources", Acclaim announced Extreme G developer Probe has been closed down, which kills the company along with two unannounced games.

There's nothing like a misspent Saturday afternoon, wandering the fairways of a golf course. The sun beating down on your back, a light breeze rustling the trees... A cool calm surrounds you as you eye up your first shot of the day. Dressed in a ghastly beach shirt and chequered trousers, you certainly look the part.

A patch for the recent Half-Life patch is now available, fixing a number of bugs and potential exploits, including the ability for players to take advantage of the new net code by faking lag, effectively entering Matrix style "bullet time" and letting them move and fire while their attacker sees them frozen solid. You can grab the patch in two flavours - a small patch for people who upgraded to the patch this patch is patching, and a big patch for people who didn't bother and are still running an earlier version of the game.