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Randy from I.am/TFC informed me that the site has been massively updated with 104 new Team Fortress Classic maps to the download section, now there are 326 TFC maps available for download. There are also 59 new training demos available for download, including 42 new speed-run demos and 17 new special-technique demos. As usual, the demos show off the skill and style of the world's best TFC players (and the world's fastest TFC flag-runners) as they compete for the top positions -- there's no better way to learn advanced TFC tactics than by watching the experts in action.

New today on EuroGamer is our preview of "KISS : Psycho Circus" from Third Law Interactive, a first person shooter based on the comic book of the same name by Todd McFarlane Productions. The preview is based on what I saw of the game when I visited Third Law's offices in Dallas a couple of weeks ago, and includes two exclusive new screenshots of the game in action and some photographs of Third Law and their offices.

Dallas is the birthplace of the first person shooter, so while I was in the area to cover the big $100,000 Razer-CPL Quake 3 tournament, I dropped by a couple of the companies based in the area.

PlayStation Developer:InfogramesPublisher:Infogrames

The seemingly never-ending gaming violence debate continues, this time with a short article on FEED Magazine talking about the recent collapse of a court case against several computer games developers and publishers, the Razer-CPL tournament, and the proverbial more.

I saw over at VE that Raven Software's lead programmer, Rick Johnson made a post to the official Soldier of Fortune messageboard with some information on the upcoming Soldier of Fortune 1.05 patch. This patch will fix and add a bunch of new stuff, such as a "pure" server option which have been requested by a lot of fans. There's no official word on the release date as of yet, stay tuned for that.

The first version of the realistic Half-Life mod Firearms has finally been released to the public, for both Windows and Linux users. Half-Life: Firearms contains 27 new realistic weapons, new textures/sounds/skins/models/graphics/animations, for a full list of what this mod contains visit the official website. There's a bunch of mirrors available for you to grab this mod (26 Mb) from:

PlanetFortress has slapped up some information on the next version of Team Fortress Classic for Half-Life, which was revealed in the latest issue of PC Gamer magazine.

The ubiquitous GameSpy Industries have launched yet another new site, this time PlanetAllegiance, which (as you may have guessed) covers Microsoft's online space action-strategy game, Allegiance. Launch features include a pilot's guide and command guide for the game, and a report on Microsoft's "Fanstock 2000" event.

Shiny Entertainment have finally launched their official Sacrifice website which contains information about the game and the characters, there's a bunch of screenshots available on the website as well. Sacrifice will be shown officially for the first time at E3 in Los Angeles May 11-13, 2000.

Boasting all the popular features that made the PC version click, and a brand new graphical interface for the Playstation version, the question arises as to what Empire have been up to for two years. Surely collating team/player statistics and designing a new interface haven't dominated them for that long? Time will tell I suppose. ICC2000 basically allows players to take control of any one of England's county teams, handling the day-to-day running of the club - including aspects such as training, transfers and match tactics. The ultimate goal is the coveted County Championship, or one of the other major competitions, such as the National League and The Natwest Trophy. With plenty of sponsorship and support, it's definitely laden with authenticity and that may be enough to endear it to some cricket fans. One of the reasons that ICC2000 seems to have taken so long is the fact that Empire were aiming to have it ready for the start of the professional cricket season, which is very soon to start. Perhaps they missed 1999 and decided to tide it over until now? Whatever, the game has been developed into what Empire call "the most realistic, authoritative and detailed cricket management game ever".

As expected, today saw the UK release of "Everquest : Ruins of Kunark", "Starlancer" and "Allegiance" - thanks as usual to Nemesis for confirming those.

For those of you looking for the special "Area 15 NVIDIA Bunker" map for Quake 3 that we mentioned in our GeForce 2 GTS preview yesterday, the map is now available here over on Stomped, having failed to turn up on NVIDIA's website as we had been told it would. For those of you who missed our preview, this map is an ultra-high detail level designed to show off the enhanced T&L capabilities of the new GeForce 2 GTS.

Our latest affiliate here at EuroGamer, The CPL, dropped us a line to let us know they've posted the text of several articles about their massive Razer-CPL Quake 3 tournament that appeared in various newspapers, from The Dallas Morning News to Britain's own Sunday Times and even India's "The Statesman"! For the full skinny, check the CPL website.

When I first unwrapped JoJo's Bizarre Adventure last week, I was a bit bemused as to what the heck it was, or what the hell it consisted of. While testing the game for the first time, I discovered that it actually consisted of not two games, but one! The first game is called "JoJo no Kimyouna Bouken" and its sequel "Miraihe no Isan" (actually "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" and "Heritage for the Future" in English). The original did see some exposure in the West, in American arcades at least, although I wouldn't blame you for having missed it - I hadn't a bloody clue what it was about either! Ironically, the first, which gives the game its catchy title, is the one which you'll play the least. The moves and characters in Heritage are the same as the original, and so is the Story Mode, so in essence playing the sequel is about all you'll end up doing - the choice is a welcome bonus though.

Army Men is a squad level strategy game which gives you control of Sarge, a little green plastic army man, and lets you lead up to 20 or so infantry and a few vehicles. In theory. On the whole you just run around doing the job for yourself, because the men can't be easily controlled.

There's been a big update to our UK release date list, with new information from THQ, Mattel, and Take 2 Interactive. Several new games have been added to the list (including Flying Heroes, Lemmings Revolution, and Dogs of War) and most of their games which we were already tracking have slipped (including Earth 2150 and the X : Beyond The Frontier mission pack). For the full scoop, check our UK release date list!

New today on EuroGamer is our big four page preview of the new GeForce 2 GTS from NVIDIA, based on what we saw at the graphics card's UK press launch in London yesterday. Included are all the gory details of the new card, photographs from the event, as well as some Quake 3 benchmarks we ran on one of their demonstration machines. For the full scoop, read our preview!

Since the release of the Riva TNT2, NVIDIA have been on top of the graphics card industry - their GeForce graphics cards are currently the fastest on the market, as well as having the most advanced features of any consumer graphics card.

I saw on VE that Daikatana Headquarters have put up a complete walkthrough to the recently released Daikatana demo. So if you're stuck in the demo of Ion Storm's much delayed game then be sure to take a peek at this walkthrough, as it should guide you through the episodes.

Evan "Moltar" Chantland informed us that VE got a new columnist who have conducted an interview with Jeff "ILikeFood" Gosztyla, a programmer at Avalanche Software currently working on a PSX2 title. The interview covers a lot of Console vs. PC gaming issues and how the lines are blurring between the two. Some interesting points are brought up, so be sure that you check it out.

The guys over at incite have posted a brand new movie of Shiny Entertainment's upcoming real-time strategy game, Sacrifice which looks absolutely fantastic. It's a huge seven-minute video that shows the most action and raw footage from Sacrifice, however the movie is around 70MB is size but it's well worth the downloading time and effort.

I noticed over at Planet Unreal that a new version (v2.75) of the popular Unreal Tournament mod, Infilitration has been released. This release contains a few new features such as you're finally able to play online (for a full list of new features, check out the official website). So head on over to their download section and grab this new version immediately, remember that this version requires the 413 UT patch.

Fur Fighter's Conceptual Artist, Jeff Lewis, has given GA-Source details on the engine that will be powering the third-person action/adventure shoot-em-up. Fur Fighter will be published by Acclaim and is scheduled to be released on Sega Dreamcast in Q3 with a PC release in Q4.

ValuSoft, the US publisher for SoftLab-NSK's trucking driving simulation "Hard Truck 2", has informed GA-Source that the title has gone gold and is scheduled to be in stores May 15th for around $20. To find out more about this unique racing title, check out their interview with PR Manager Nikolay Baryshnikov.

That's right, Zippeteers, a new version of Winzip is available to download. Just about everyone on the Internet uses this application, so it makes sense to link to it. No word on the new features, but... heck, it's Winzip.

Just a little quick note before I hit the sack (really tired!), remember that the anticipated Unreal Tournament mod, Strike Force will be released tomorrow (the first beta atleast). Pyromancier, one of the guys behind this mod updated the official website with some information about the first beta, he also mentions that there will be a Mac release but only after the PC release is out. As for Bot Support ; bots are available in Strike Force, but only spawn with a Desert Eagle and play very poorly since they haven't been optimized. Proper Bot support will hopefully make it's way into Beta 2. Be sure to check us out tomorrow for a complete list of mirrors.

ATI has officially announced its next generation graphics card, formerly known as the Rage 6 and now sporting the bizarre epiphet .. "Radeon 256". Features include -

New today on EuroGamer is our review of "Close Combat IV : Battle Of The Bulge", a real time wargame based on Germany's last great offensive of the Second World War, a counter-attack into the Ardennes during the winter of 1944. Can it live up to the promise of the last three games in the Close Combat series? Read our review to find out!

Joytech Price: £19.99 Joytech is a name that frankly no-one's ever heard of. They produce accessories for home consoles, including the Playstation, N64 and Dreamcast, and they also run off a group of Gameboy Color bits and pieces. Their trademark seems to be to undercut the prices of official units and try and alter the design of the official ones slightly, for the better. Third party controllers never really appeal for me. The garish neon designs and fluorescent buttons just look out of place on my carefully laid out desk, and the controllers have a tendency to break, too, from experience. For example, I bought an official Super Nintendo controller a few years ago, and an unofficial model from some cowboy accessories outfit. The official model works, to this day, but the other unit is unresponsive and damaged. Not to mention blister-inducing. Still, you can't judge modern day products by yesteryear's standards. There's every chance that these companies will have learnt from their mistakes, and capitalised on the time in between. Probably.