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One of the major players in the PC games industry, is Mark Rein of Epic. Developers of the Unreal series. Dailyradar got a hold of Mark and asked him about that popular subject these days, Xbox.

Intel today shocked the world with its chosen name for its next generation of processors. In a move that sends waves around the computing world, they have chosen the radical name 'Pentium 4' for the next line of processors (formerly code-named Willamette).

The gossip wheel keeps on turning, today, Well Rounded are reporting that UbiSoft may be interested in buying Eidos. They report that the shares of UbiSoft have been on the rise in recent days, climbing nearly 10 percent on the Paris Stock Exchange as investor whispers have grown. Havas (owner of Sierra) and Infogrames have also been named as possible suitors.

Today's review here on EuroGamer takes a closer look at "Shogun : Total War", a real time strategy game with a difference which was recently released by Electronic Arts. Set in feudal Japan, the game sees you taking control of a faction and striving to become the Shogun, Warlord over all of Japan. Featuring a mixture of gorgeous 3D battles and a Risk style strategy element, can Shogun live up to its promise of "Total War"? Read our review to find out!

The real time strategy genre is a big and successful one. Most game players at one time or another will spend hours upon hours building more tanks, and more infantry. Over time the substance of RTS games has not really changed that much. In reality what is the difference between Command and Conquer and Tiberian Sun. Besides graphics and sound the games are almost identical. Many people would say the first game is better. Gameslice.com have a look at the whole RTS genre on a whole and do some tough talking.

Trent Reznor, lead singer with the Nine Inch Nails is known, along with his whole band for their intense and visual live shows. Reznor's experience in movie making had already extended into working on soundtracks for some major motion pictures, and scoring music for a popular video game. "I did Natural Born Killers, and Lost Highway for David Lynch," says Reznor, "but I've really no interest in doing any more compilation albums. The only thing I'd want to do these days is actual scoring."

Space sims seems to be flavour of the day at the moment, since the success of Homeworld rejuvenated the genre. IGN PC have a hefty interview with programmer Vitomir Jevremovic, from the developer M.U.S.T. Corporation, on of the main minds behind the upcoming massively multiplayer space-sim - 3rd World. The likes of UO and Everquest have shown the gigantic popularity of of the massively multiplayer style of game. These two factors make 3rd world a contender to be a top game.

Anyone with even a passing interest in games of any nature has herd of Wolfinstien, most of those probably played it aswell. It was a pity really that no sequel ever happened. ID Software, the original developers moved on to another project and the Quake World weenie was born. Well a few months ago it became apparent that at long last that someone was doing a sequel to what many consider one of the greatest computer games of all time. The people with the burden of expectation is Activision. Gamespot TV interview Drew Markham the Producer of Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

In the job as a news updater you see a lot of screen shots and read a lot about how great upcoming games are, of course its rare that a game fulfils expectation. One game that has gotten my attention is Hitman by IO Interactive. Gamer.NL have scooped a chat with Jens Peter Kurup, a designer on the game. He tackles a number of subjects, among them that tricky one about 1st versus 3rd person, "At the heart of it, Hitman The Game it's a story about a person evolving. This process and the story is much better shown in third person, than we could tell it in first person"

Twenty years ago most computer games were either text based, or used low resolution sprites and sound effects that consisted of various tones and lengths of bleeping.

Only a fool would go head to head with Diablo 2 and release a big game at the same time right, wrong. The folks at Black Isle believe in their product, the folks at Haven Games have a good long chat with Scott Warner of Black Isle Studios about that soon-to-be-released RPG, Icewind Dale. On the thorny subject of Diablo 2 he says, "Icewind Dale is a completely different role playing game. I think that gamers are aware of that and will purchase accordingly"

have an interview with James Jones about the upcoming 'MMORPG' (massively multiplayer online role playing game) Horizon, they introduce some of the more complex theories behind the game, "almost every item in the game can be player made or scavenged. Providing alternate means to survive and advance without predominantly living on a coin system. A major focus of the items is economic balance and trade. If money becomes too common in the realm it begins to drastically devalue"

Loki software is strange, they focus on Linux software, GameSpy agree with me, and caught up with them recently. They made their name with the title Civilizations: Call To Power, which was released over a year ago. Commercially developing Linux games, or ports for Windows games to Linux seems to be a risky business as far as I can tell, to that they answer, "We believe that Linux needs to be successful on the consumer desktop, and that games are a necessary part of that success. From that standpoint, our games contribute to the growth of Linux as a platform".

, luminary designer with Barking Dog Studios. Barking Dog Studios are the stellar developers of the amazing Counterstrike mod for Half-Life, and now an intense new title in the 3D real time strategy genre, the first addition or "episode" for Relic's Homeworld universe - called Homeworld: Cataclysm.

This weekend's preview here on EuroGamer takes a quick hands-on look at the Kyro3D graphics card from the PowerVR folks. We got our hands on some pre-release silicon to see how it stacks up against the GeForce and Voodoo 5 based graphics cards. For the full skinny, read our preview.

We were recently lucky enough to get our hands on a pre-release Kyro board for some testing here at EuroGamer. It wouldn't be fair to attempt to review it at this stage though, as the chip wasn't running at full speed (115MHz rather than the expected 120/125MHz), and the board itself does have a few issues that make it a little unstable. But it was enough for us to get a feel for how the card may stack up against the opposition...

Here at EuroGamer we've just posted our second batch of eight exclusive new screenshots of "Soldier", a third person shooter based on the Kurt Russell sci-fi movie of the same name. Again, the screenshots were taken at 1024x768 in 32 bit colour with full-scene anti-aliasing enabled on a GeForce 2 graphics card to give you the best possible visual quality. Expect another batch of shots next week, as well as a full hands-on preview of the game soon!

With the web-based space strategy game Planetarion finally coming out of beta on July 1st, one of the game's creators has explained the reasons for the game's combat being given an overhaul.

Quake3Mods.net reviews the Prisoners of War mod

Dan Hoecke, Director of Strategy First, has explained the idea behind their new game, Zero G Marines. "Although the team wanted to emulate the gameplay as well as the visual quality in the top FPS games, we wanted to add elements of a rich, plausible world and combat in zero gravity".

New today on EuroGamer is our review of the Voodoo 5 5500 AGP graphics card, the new flagship product from 3dfx. With two chips, 64Mb of memory, a pair of fans, and a seperate power connector to keep it all running, this is certainly one beast of a card. Can its performance live up to the hype though? Read our review to find out!

- 3dfxPrice - £250

Back when pro-gaming was first getting started, it was the PGL rather than the CPL which seemed to be dominating the growing sport. Then the company behind it switched its focus to family games and the PGL went into limbo, recently being bought out by former PGL star player Dennis "Thresh" Fong and his company GX Media.

A new version of the popular server browser "GameSpy 3D" is now available, adding support for the Sanity multiplayer beta test, as well as such great games (ahem) as Buckmasters Deer Hunting, High Impact Paintball, LaserArena, RallyMasters and Wild Wings. The new version can also integrate with ICQ to automatically set your "away" message to let your friends know where you are playing, and compresses server lists to make them download (and therefore update) quicker.

PlanetVampire has posted some tutorials on making maps for Vampire : The Masquerade using the "Embrace" level editor

The newly relaunched XSReality have posted their report on the recent CPL-Asia event in Singapore, which featured a mixture of local Asian talent and some of the top gamers from Europe and America competing in a Quake 3 duel tournament for cash prizes.

This week's interview here on EuroGamer is with Franz F Felsl of PopTop, the company behind the massive hit strategy game "Railroad Tycoon II". We talked to Franz about life at PopTop, as well as their new game Tropico, in which you play the role of the dictator of an imaginary Caribbean island stuck in the Cold War era. To find out more about the game and the company behind it, read our interview!

In our preview of the game last week, we described Tropico as looking set to be "one of the most innovative and downright fun titles of the year". But who are the brains behind this game? We spoke to Franz J Felsl of developers PopTop to find out more...

This is handy as it is a subject and a question that quite a few people have been talking about, and a few more fighting about!. 3Drage.com have posted a guide to gamers and why they might and might not want to run either/or both of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 as a gaming platform.

Explaining the problems of writing conversations for the first person RPG "Deus Ex", script writer Sheldon Pacotti commented in an interview with Speedy3D that "players are an unpredictable bunch".