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Mike Crowns, Director of Product Development at Raven Software, has talked about the possibility of a sequel and/or mission pack for the company's latest first person shooter, "Soldier of Fortune", in which you play a real-life government "consultant" called John Mullins.

More information on the prizes available at the CPL's coming tournaments in Dallas is now available on the CPL website. The Frag 4 team-play event will be primarily sponsored by Heat.net, with a top prize of $8,000 (to be split between the winning four man team), with $4,000 for the runners-up and $2,000 for the third place team. There will also be a special $800 prize for the "most valuable player" - a kind of "man of the match" thing.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of The Longest Journey, a gorgeous looking adventure game which mixes pre-rendered backgrounds and real-time animated 3D models to give you the best of both worlds. Can the story, dialogue and puzzles live up to the promise of the beautiful locations and characters? Read our review to find out!

Programmer Carlos Garcia Cordero of Spanish developer Rebel Act Studios has spoken about the "toon renderer" he coded in his spare time for Blade, the third person fantasy action game that the company are currently working on.

Every now and then a game comes along that sucks you into its world so completely that you vanish into it for days at a time, surfacing only for food and sleep when you just physically can't play any longer. Last year we had Outcast to rob us of sleep and social life, and this year we have The Longest Journey.

The "Software Development Kit" for Vampire : The Masquerade is now available, allowing user-made add-ons for the RPG, which was recently released in America. You can grab it here from Vampire Vault, or here from TheMasquerade

While we are still waiting for the game to even be released here in Europe, the SDK toolkit for "Vampire : The Masquerade" is already in testing at Activision and is expected to be released by "Friday at the latest", according to this post on the message boards of developer Nihilistic.

The team behind the excellent squad action game Evolva have formed their own game development studio called Synaptic Soup. The co-founders include Vince Farquharson (lead designer), Rik Heywood (lead programmer) and Karl Wickens (lead artist), and their first project is apparently already "well under way". For the full story, read the press release!

New today on EuroGamer is our big hands-on preview of Rune, the Unreal-engined third person action game from Human Head and the Gathering Of Developers. Based on Viking mythology, this is a game of death, destruction and drinking, with the focus very much on melee combat and the cleaving of enemies in twain with dirty big axes. To find out more, read our preview!

The demo for 3D fishing game "Trophy Bass 4", which we reviewed just last week, is now available on the Trophy Bass 4 website (strangely enough). The demo, which weighs in at just 10Mb, allows you to paddle your boat around in part of Lake Marion, South Carolina.

With their rich mythology and culture, and a healthy dose of horned helmets and big axes, it's surprising that computer games featuring Vikings are so few and far between. But now Human Head and the Gathering Of Developers are looking to change all that with their Unreal engined third person action game, Rune.

As a special treat for all you action fans, we also have eight exclusive new screenshots of the third person sci-fi shooter "Soldier" here on EuroGamer today. Based on the Kurt Russell movie of the same name, the game features a heady mix of futuristic weaponry and hordes of bad guys to gun down on a planet which is piled high with rusting hulks and wrecked planes. Expect more screenshots, as well as a full preview of the game, over the next couple of weeks...

Congratulations to Ken Silverman, the programmer behind the Build engine that powered classic games like Duke Nukem 3D and Blood, as well as not-so-classic games like Redneck Rampage and Extreme Paintbrawl. Ken has just graduated from college, and to celebrate he has released the source code for the Build engine!

Muiy has posted a column over on Challenge-US about the future of pro-gaming and the CPL. One of the things he picked up on is the apparent attempt to pitch pro-gaming as an "extreme sport" in the vein of snowboarding.

Kevin Bezant of Razorworks, the company behind the "Enemy Engaged" series of helicopter sims, has described what goes into deciding on the scenarios and locations to be included in their games.

Croatian developers CroTeam recently released a test version of their over-the-top all-action first person shooter, "Serious Sam", which has been getting rave reviews from fellow developers and gamers alike. But there was always one question - why on Earth did they call it that? Well, now they have explained all...

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Ground Control, the gorgeous looking 3D real time strategy game from Sierra and Swedish developer Massive Entertainment. Does it have the brains to match its beauty, or is it all style and no substance? Can it live up to the hype? And is the multiplayer any good? Read our review to find out for yourself!

In this age of unrelenting hype surrounding PC games, it's refreshing to be surprised by a hot new title out of the blue. Ground Control is the debut game from Swedish developers, Massive Entertainment, and they've gone straight for the throat with a 3D accelerated real-time strategy game which is as grand as any that have come before.

Publishers of the popular (and profitable) Championship manager seriers and the queen of PR and spin Lara Croft, Eidos are reported to be in early stage talks which could lead to an offer for the company. Eidos has struggled this year and issued a series of profit warnings, reflecting problems in adapting to the next generation of gaming platforms.

When the rumours started last week that Microsoft was about to buy Bungie panic spread across the net like wildfire with people panicking that PC users were not going to see Halo at all. Since then there has been lots of rumour and counter rumour as to the fate of Halo. Daily Radar has interviewed Jason Jones, Bungie's co-founder and the guiding developer behind Halo, to find out the definitive story behind all the rumours about the fate of Halo on the PC.

of Rogue Entertainment. They got him in to speak about Rogue's upcoming Quake 3 engine-powered title American McGee's Alice. For the unobsessive game fan out there American McGee was the genius behind many of the Quake and Quake 2 levels while at id Software, as famous for his work as the mysterious circumstances in which he left id some years back.

When I heard the name of this new game, 'It Came For Zog', my first impression on the name was wondering were Zig and Zag (of Big Breakfast and MTV fame) not from Planet Zog? Its strange how words like that crop up again and again. Well the folks over at GA-Source have a chat with Rune Christensen the lead artist on the curiously named title. Included is some new eye candy to feast yourselves with aswell.

The UK's monopolistic telecoms operator, British Telecom, not content with holding back the progress of online gaming and e-commerce in the UK with its over-priced and late arriving support for broadband digital connections, is now trying to stamp its unwelcome authority on the entire world wide web!

According to TJ Wagner of Microsoft, "in MechWarrior 4 you are in charge and will be making the decisions", and "for the first time, the player will experience the BattleTech universe as intended by the creators".

Starlancer Vault has mirrored SLEdit, a hog file editor for Starlancer

Operating systems - we all have to use them, but we don't get much of a choice! On the one hand, you have the mainstream but rather unstable Windows systems. But going for something that doesn't fall apart every five minutes, such as Linux or BeOS, yields even more crippling problems, such as the lack of drivers and software.

Our UK release date list has had a big update today, with all the latest information from Eidos, Empire, Fox Interactive and Microsoft amongst others being added to the list. Notable additions include Metal Gear Solid (September), Mechwarrior 4 (November), and Anachronox (Third Quarter).

A few months ago British cable TV operator NTL announced they would be introducing a completely free ISP - no monthly charges, and a free-phone number to dial into. Today I received another e-mail from the company explaining the continued delay in getting me and thousands of other people around the country on to the service after we signed up for it months ago.

Industry gossip site FatBabies reports that John Romero may soon be in the market for a new job. "Buzz has been pointing to the termination of one John Romero from the offices of Ion Storm to happen as early as Monday (hey, that's today!). Eidos has not been happy with the sales nor the overall management of the development of Daikatana. Word is Eidos' head of product development, Rob Dyer, will be dropping the axe on Romero personally".

have an interview with Ed Fries, vice president of Microsoft Games Group, and Alexander Seropian, Bungie founder and CEO about the deal over the weekend which made Bungie Software a fully owned subsidiary of the Microsoft Games Group.