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Homeworld was one of the most innovative real time strategy games of last year, a glorious 3D accelerated game set in the depths of space that put you in charge of the proverbial rag tag fleet in search of a long lost home in the stars.

GameSpy have posted the second part of their "The Good, The Frag and The Ugly" feature on Quake 3 mods, this time looking at some highly anticipated mods yet to come. And the third part is up as well now, looking at some "do's and dont's" [sic] of mod making

Paul Steed, who was recently sacked for no apparent good reason as a result of the upheavals at id Software, has sent a short statement to the folks at Stomped giving his opinion on the recent events there.

You wouldn't expect a skateboarding game to amount to much, really. Surely it could only be as good as 1080 on wheels and dry land, right? Wrong. The level of variety, excitement and just sheer quality of the gameplay available here is utterly astonishing. No word of a lie, myself and a friend spent six hours straight playing the various 2 player battle modes and attempting challenges in single player... he left my house at 2am. Controlling the game is simpler than I would have expected. The moves you can pull off are extremely simple to execute, because what counts is getting enough air in order to pull of huge combinations of moves which really rakes the points in. No one move is more complicated than a combination of a direction and two button presses or vice versa, and each character has a specific set of unique moves, including a main special stunt and other hidden specials. What this means is that there is a fair amount of value in trying out different characters, instead of the only difference between the players being their costumes.

, a computer games bar in the heart of London, has announced that it will be running a special "Ladies Night" for women gamers only on Thursday July 13th. The event will be sponsored by Guillemot and WON.net, with proceeds going to a breast cancer research charity. Sounds like a worthwhile cause to us - look for more details on the Playing Fields website.

While most games, especially first person shooters, are aiming for photo-realistic graphics at the moment, adventure games could be headed the other way... The latest buzz for adventure gamers is the ability to create a game that uses real time animated 3D models that look just like hand-drawn cartoons, a technique that is currently used in the cartoon TV series Futurama, and is coming soon to real time gaming on a desktop near you.

Luis Miguel Quijada of Spanish developers Rebel Act has described the process of creating models for the game, from the initial sketches to a fully modelled, animated and textured monster.

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war", or something to that effect... Yes, EuroGamer has now posted its full review of "Dogs Of War", the new 3D real time strategy game from Take 2 Interactive and Silicon Dreams. Is it "the dog's bollocks", or just plain bollocks? Read our review to find out for yourself!

There he is. Craig Charles, "star of TV's Red Dwarf", looking all curmudgeonly on the back of the "Dogs of War" box. He's smiling .. no, he's grinning at me. Does he know something I don't?

More updates from the strange world of "American McGee's Alice" - the Chesire Cat sends word that there is a new portrait of Alice and himself "relaxing in the pale light of the mushroom forest", which you can find in the "Downloads" section of the game's official website, as well as a new map of the Queen's Garden in the "Wonderland" section.

Kevin Cloud, co-founder of id Software and one of the artists who sacked Paul Steed on Wednesday night, has updated his .plan to explain his side of the story, pointing out that "Paul Steed is one of the most vocal and controversial people in gaming. Therefore, it is not surprising that his departure from id would also be controversial."

The folks over at Freelancer Vault are launching a petition demanding the inclusion of "pirate accessories" in Digital Anvil's massively multiplayer space sim, Freelancer. What are pirate accessories, I hear you ask?

If you ever wondered what all those people listed in the credits of a game actually do, Michael McHale of Eidos has explained what his own job involves.

New today on EuroGamer is a big interview with Scott Herrington of Turbine, the company behind the massively addictive massively multiplayer RPG, Asheron's Call. We talked to Scott about the game's development, its launch, the on-going storyline and constantly changing world of Dereth, as well as finding out a little about the future of the game and Turbine. For the full story, read our interview!

Since the first public beta tests of the game last year, Asheron's Call has quickly grown to become one of the biggest massively multiplayer games in the world, with thousands of players online at once.

Bleem! is a name that Sony just wish would go away. The team behind the famous Playstation emulator have the unrestrained right to ship bleem! all over the world, thanks to the judicial system at work in the States. Enraged, Sony have since been beating down the door of court after court, attempting to gain some sort of preventative injunction against the American company responsible for the software, which they claim damages Playstation sales. I managed to conduct an interview with the guys behind bleem, shortly after their return home from E3 in Los Angeles, where they debuted their latest product, affectionately termed bleemcast!

If you ever wondered what Ritual get up to on a quiet Thursday morning when they're not working on "Heavy Metal : FAKK2", wonder no more... His lo'ness, level designer Levelord, brings word that Tom Mustaine spent the morning "spread-eagled on the floor" being searched by a "tall blonde policewoman"!

Nemesis sends confirmation that the strategy games "Sim City 3000 : World Edition" and "Metal Fatigue" have both been released here in the UK today. We've also got all the latest release date information from 3DO (Might & Magic, Army Men), Eidos (Daikatana, F1 World Grand Prix), Hasbro (Grand Prix 3, Starship Troopers), and Take 2 (Blair Witch Project, Heavy Metal : FAKK2).

GameSpy have posted part one of a feature on Quake 3 mods, titled "The Good, The Frag, and the Ugly".

Rich "Zdim" Carlson sent along word that Electronic Arts has decided to drop "Jane's Attack Squadron" (formerly known as "Flight Combat"), a game which was nearing completion at Looking Glass Studios when the developer closed down recently. This is despite a campaign to save the game that raised almost 5000 signatures.

The latest Asheron's Call newsletter includes a mention of a spate of recent weddings between adventurers in the land of Dereth. Must be something in the air... We're a little worried at their divorce procedure though. To quote the newsletter, "If things don't work out, there's always the "death do you part" escape clause - just be sure you can get back to your corpse!"

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The CPL here in Europe and over in America might be dominated by Quake 3 Arena, but the Asian division of the CPL is apparently considering branching out. According to CPL-Asia's President Jevan Tan, "CPL Asia will look into different games" for their tournaments, as well as the traditional first person shooters.

In a shocking .plan update, id Software's co-founder and lead programmer John Carmack has announced the company's next project.

News reaches us, from Slick in Planet Fortress that the latest Half Life patch has been delayed (again). The much awaited patch which will contain Team Fortress 1.5 and all new and improved netcode for even better internet play.

One of the big features of the forthcoming strategy game "Empire Earth" (other than the 500,000 year time span the game covers!) is the ability to create your own custom empire. Rick Goodman, co-designer of Age of Empires and now hard at work on Empire Earth at his new company Stainless Steel Studios, has explained how this works.

The folks over at Latest Updates have posted an interview with Valve developer Wright Bagwell. Wright is a level designer, who in his past life had done some funky quake levels such as 'The Vigil'.

It has gotten quite a bit of coverage but I'm sure this is one of the last times you'll hear about LookingGlassStudios. The now defunct, once great, games developer.

The final part of the tutorial on re-coding Quake 3's menu is now up on Q3Center

Straight from the annals of classic 2D beat-em-ups come the Arcade, Versus and Training options. They seem to have made up the core pre-requisite in most 2D fighting game design documents for many a year. There are 10 Combatants, each of whom heralds a few unique special abilities. The ferocity of these abilities is dictated by the increasing rage and animosity toward the opponent, represented by a Power Bar at the foot of the screen. Vibrations from the Dual Shock controller, which is fully supported by the game, further demonstrate this ferocity. While many of the Capcom and SNK titles that dominate this genre offer well-known characters that we can relate to, Guilty Gear's crew aren't too shabby. I felt a lot more endeared to them than I had expected to as I struggled through the Single Player game, and while there is always a sort of standoffishness about playing with any beat-em-up character in Multi Player, I developed my favourites very quickly and learnt how to most effectively make use of their respective arsenals. The actual combat was frenetic - the action is fast, fast, fast, and the combination manoeuvres border on the absurd. The developers have evidently spent a lot of time balancing the game out however, because the actual length of the bouts is not significantly less than most 2D beat-em-ups, presumably thanks to the time and effort put into creating the right balance of executive speed and damage infliction.