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Black Knight Productions have released the first non-beta version of their Quake 3 mod, Prisoners of War, which is inspired by the popular Jailbreak Quake 2 mod.

The chaps over at VE have gotten their hands on a brand new movie of 4D Rulers upcoming first-person shooter, Gore which is just looking better all the time. The movie is available in three flavors, so definitely check out this one -- it'll be worth it. For more information on this upcoming game visit the official webpage but there's no official word on the release date, yet.

Gibstats III is now available, adding support for Quake III Arena logs to the popular stats analysis program.

Playstation Developer:Team 17Publisher:InfogramesPrice: £34.99

This week's EuroGamer interview is "Editing UnrealEd". We talked to Warren Marshall of Epic Games to find out how he ended up at the company, and to talk about his current work on the new version of UnrealEd, the level editor used to create hit games Unreal and Unreal Tournament.

Until recently Warren Marshall was best known for his work as a level designer - producing a string of excellent maps for both Quake and Quake II, running a map review site called MPQ, working with my old company The Coven, and eventually ending up at Legend.

SoF Operations have posted information on and files for editing Soldier of Fortune's models with 3DSMax 3, courtesy of Gil Gribb of Raven

Eyes bleeding from all those high resolution screenshots you've been staring at? Why not try some music for a change? DZVault have posted a short snippet of music from the forthcoming massively multiplayer RPG Dark Zion.

Silicon Dreams are rather like an also-ran EA Sports these days, providing new incarnations of the same stuff every year. At first it was a Michael Owen sponsorship, which lasted a couple of years, but then the price tag for that probably went through the roof, so now it's a UEFA deal that adorns the package. As soon as things kick off, there's a distinct feeling of mediocrity, rather like the visual element of ITV's Champions' League coverage! The short introductory video is of a low visual quality - it's not even as impressive as last year's EA Sports intros. The NHL '99 video with David's Bowie's accompaniment wowed me when I first bought the console, and even watching it a year on it I'm more inspired by it than I am by UEFA's. In-game, UEFA CL is nothing to get all that worked up about either; it's fairly average Playstation fare, and nothing on a par with the likes of Virtua Striker 2 on the Dreamcast. You can put up with it though, and if you haven't been pleasured with the Dreamcast's sumptuous visuals, you probably won't mind. The player animations are the graphical saving grace for UEFA. Facial expressions are indiscernible, but on the whole the players have an air of realism. The menu options on offer to you include "Play Game", "Quick Match", "Options" and "Load Game". The first presents you with a sub-menu allowing you to select what sort of game you'd like to take part in; either a Competition, a Scenario match, a Friendly or some other games types. The "Quick Match" option takes you straight to the Controller Assign screen, where you can pick one of the two randomly assigned teams. My favourite option is to pick the Scenario option, which allows you to take part in classic European encounters from 1960 right through to the present day, including the dramatic century-concluding Manchester United versus Bayern Munich clash.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of the now notorious Ultima Ascension, an RPG better known for its bugs than its storyline. We took a closer look at the "patched" UK release version of the game to see if it's worth your money, or if you're better staying well clear and grabbing a bottle of anti-biotics to be on the safe side...

Today's Quake 3 patch is brought to you by the letter P and the number 7. The latest version (1.17) fixes a serious security flaw in Quake 3 that allowed servers to overwrite any file on a player's computer! Ouch. The new version is, of course, not compatible with any previous version of Quake 3, so you'll have to download it if you want to play online.

The shareware version of GameSpy 2.20 is now available to download, adding support for Soldier of Fortune, Daikatana, Codename Eagle, and Rogue Spear : Urban Ops. Some problems with running the server browser on Win2K have also been fixed.

Our friends over at Cached have an article taking a look at the "pro-mode" for Quake 3, designed by professional gamers for professional gamers. The article takes a look at the major changes they have made to the game, how it effects the way the game is played, and whether it's any good at the end of the day...

For all you Counter-Strike fans out there, the European CounterStrike League is now open for business, and is taking sign-ups before the season starts in a few weeks time. Check their website for the full details...

German publisher TopWare dropped us a line to let us know that they will be publishing the bizarre looking "It Came For Zog!", an adventure game currently in development in Denmark, in which you will play a caveman abducted by aliens. No, really. For the full story, read the press release.

French publisher Cryo will be showing off Test Drive 6 at E3, and sent word that the game will be released in the UK on May 26th. Cryo's other games, including Devil Inside, Hellboy, Open Tennis 2000, and Venice, will all be on show as well.

The Online Gamers Association today announced that it has set up a National eSports Advisory Panel in the UK, made up of representatives from leading gaming service providers and online leagues. The panel's first job will be to help select the UK Quake 3 team, which we will be touring around Europe to play in international tournaments and local LAN events. First stop, LAN Arena 5 in Paris this summer. Read the press release for the full story.

Virgin dropped us a line to let us know that the official website for Shiny's new multiplayer strategy game, Sacrifice, is now online! The site includes information about the game, as well as some screenshots and concept art.

Zdim sent word that Valve are planning to release a new version of the Half-Life SDK, which will include things previously only available in the ProSDK, as well as the new networking code a new user interface toolkit

Despite the games cute graphics, there's still plenty of options and modes for seasoned golfers to get stuck into. Five courses are available to play on, each one with a distinctive style of play. The fairly basic and flat Japanese course offers a gentle introduction to players, while the gusty islands that form the Scottish greens offer a real challenge to the more experienced player. The meat of the game for the solo player is the massive world tour against computer players around each of these courses, but the free play mode has additional tournament, match and stroke modes for added variety. A choice of player character is offered to you, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, with values for statistics like power, luck and spin to consider. Then there's a choice of which set of irons, woods and even which ball type your going to take with you out to the green, although I have to admit that this was getting a bit too involved for me, it does illustrate the depth of options that are available if your brave enough to dig that far. Once on the tee you'll find the game a real breeze to control. The analog stick aims the shot, the Y button will give you some nice camera angles to view and the A button will begin the swing. You can switch clubs using the D-pad and you've got the choice of making a more powerful normal short or a short range, but very accurate cautious shot. Spin can then be added to the shot using the analog stick while the swing is in progress. The easy interface and cute graphics actually disguise what's really a relatively complex simulation, with a large number of options available for each shot. The accuracy and power of the shot is judged using a traditional golf game 'swingometer', using the three-tap system that should be familiar to anyone who's played a golf game before. One tap to start the swing, another to set the power, and a final tap of the button at the bottom of the swingometer to make the shot. It's a good system, but here its made a little too easy by the slow speed of the dial, making miss-swings rare. A successful shot must take into consideration the distance, lie of the ball and the strength and direction of the wind, so its not critical that the emphasis isn't also on lightening fast reactions as well. While the game is visually great to look at, with the courses rendered cleanly and the players very pleasing to the eye, the landscapes are rather short on detail. There's none of the frills like spectators or grandstands that can be found in other golf titles, and while this doesn't detract from the gameplay at all, it does make the courses a little dull. The pre round course flyby is smooth very well put together however, and has to be the most useful flyby in any golf game I've played. A welcome addition to the all ready feature filled package is the slightly weird G-ball game. This variant completely replaces the grass and trees of a traditional golf course, and places the players in futuristic VR style floating arenas to play a ball through the hoop game that most closely resembles crochet. This plays and looks so radically different from the main game that its almost a complete title on it's own, and adds a level of variety and value not often found in golf or indeed any other sports based titles.

I noticed over at Stomped that Steve "magicman" Thoms made a post to the Nihilistic Boards regarding map building in Vampire: The Masquerade:

More interview goodness today, this time it's Sharky Extreme that have conducted an interview with Kenn Hoekstra of Raven Software on the topic of their upcoming Quake III engine powered game, Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. Among the topics discussed are NPC's, weapons, the plot and a bunch of other interesting stuff.

Daily Radar have interviewed Tom Putzki designer at Piranha Bytes, the developers of the upcoming Action/RPG, Gothic. They discuss basically every aspect of this game such as the plot, AI and NPC's, be sure to read it for some tasty information regarding this game.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Battlezone 2, the action-strategy game from Activision. The last Battlezone was bundled with almost every graphics card known to man, so it's no surprise that the sequel looks gorgeous as well. But does it have the gameplay to back it up? Read our review to find out!

What a difference an alien attack makes! The USA and Russia have forever tiptoed their way around each other, knowing that the slightest unrest on either side could cause a world war catastrophe.

The catchily titled Anarchy Online Vault has launched, with all the usual news and features you would expect from the Vault Network. To kick things off they have a developer's journal from the game's producer, Tommy Strand.

Telefragged sends word that Pete 'meat' Parisi, who is now working on The World Is Not Enough, has released his second Quake 3 map pack on his site BadMeat

No, the almighty Himself has not been bought out by Take 2 Interactive, we're talking about the Gathering Of Developers here. The two companies have been working together for a couple of years, and Take 2 have now cemented the deal by buying the 80.1% of GOD that they didn't already own. For the full story, read the press release.

The lucky chaps at EliteForce.net have gotten their hands on an exclusive movie showing two minutes of footage from Raven Software's upcoming Quake III engine powered game, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force game. Grab this movie from 3D Downloads, it's a 17.4Mb download but it is worth every second.

New today on EuroGamer is "Gaming Can Seriously Damage Your Health", a tongue-in-cheek look at how playing computer games can be bad for you, taking in repetitive strain injuries, Pokemon fever and computer rage along the way. Is your machine trying to kill you? Read our article to find out the truth!