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Curious about the opinion of some of the top developers in the gaming industry, eUniverse.com asked the simple question of "online gaming, overrated or inevitable future?". They have Director of Gearbox Software Randy Pitchford's response in this update, it's a very good-read so be sure that you check this one out.

Our UK Release Date list has been updated with the latest information from Virgin Interactive and UbiSoft, including confirmation that "Everquest : Ruins Of Kunark" will be released in the UK on Friday, and the latest news on MDK2 and Icewind Dale.

Total Reload have posted an interview with Austin, part of the team behind the Matrix mod for Half-Life

Wrestling is one of those sports that you either love or completely and utterly hate. Fortunately I am of the latter category, so can review this game with an enthusiasm for the sport itself.

This week's article here on EuroGamer is "The Professional", taking a quick look at the current state of play in professional gaming, and having a peek at what the future may hold for this emerging sport.

For millions of people around the world, playing computer games is a hobby. But for a growing number of players it is also how they pay their bills...

The CPL Asia website has been launched, with details of the first CPL-Asia event, "Frag Fest 2000". This will be held at the World Trade Centre in Singapore from June 9th to 11th, with prizes totalling S$20,000 up for grabs. As well as Quake 3 Arena, there will also be some Counter-Strike games going on at the event. Check the CPL Asia website for the full details.

For all you fly boys and military history buffs, SimHQ have posted an article about the role of close air support in modern warfare, concentrating on the German Luftwaffe in the Second World War this time round, and looking at the blitzkrieg on Poland, France and Russia in particular.

I spotted this over on Stomped - SkinSmith has released a funny Quake 3 skin that looks just like Lt Col Dave Grossman, the former US Marine who claims that playing violent games causes real life violence.

GamersVoice are running a competition to celebrate their first birthday, giving away copies of nine different Microsoft games, including Allegiance and Starlancer.

Breaking news from around the EuroGamer Network...

The Deus Ex Zone has posted an interview with Warren Spector of Ion Storm's Austin office, talking about Deus Ex naturally enough. The interview also includes some comments from Chris Norden, and Harvey Smith, who they interviewed seperately last week as well.

New today on EuroGamer is our big preview of Ritual's new third person shooter, "Heavy Metal : FAKK2". Based on the animated movie of the same name and using the Quake 3 engine, can this game live up to its promise? I took a trip over to Ritual's offices in Dallas for a closer look at the game... To find out what's new, read our preview!

While I was in Dallas to cover the massive Razer-CPL Quake 3 tournament, I took time out from the fragging to drop by Ritual's offices and check out their latest project, a third person action-adventure game by the name of "FAKK2".

John Romero of ION Storm updated his .plan file with some solutions to a few technical issues with the recently released Daikatana demo. So I suggest that you read this update if multiplayer is laggy or extremely choppy for you or if you can't run Daikatana with a Voodoo 2.

QAPete of Planet Unreal has let us know that the first beta of the much anticipated Unreal Tournament mod, Strike Force will be released Wednesday, April 26th at 11:00 PM EST. To make us drool even more, Planet Unreal scored two brand new screenshots from this upcoming mod. Be sure to grab this file as soon as possible next week, the size will be between 50 - 80 MB.

Tom "Diabolic" McClure informed us that VRMagazine has a new look, along with a texturing tutorial for creating quality textures to use in mapping for games or other 3D applications. This tutorial should be useful for anyone with Photoshop, be sure to download the VR Texture Pack as well.

Mall of the Sims are giving away a shiny, sparkly, 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP Video Card as well as Strategy Guides for "The SIMS" and Free memberships to their exclusive VIP Club.

Admittedly I was worried about this port. Having sat through an exhibition of how great the game was by my PSX-owning mate (that's as in "friend", not sexual in any way, you understand... erm...) several thousands of times, I wasn't entirely sure how the hugeness was going to fit into the little plastic thing. Still, wonders will never cease with this magic box of...magic...things. Anyway, all my fears were soon expelled (like a big Odour-Eater had come into the room and stamped gratuitously all over them) when I started up the console, jumped straight into the game and was mesmerised by what appeared to be a five minute long segment of FMV... on the Nintendo. FMV. Nintendo. Five minutes. This was superb, and I was amazed. Either I've been missing out on something, seeing as I was a late starter with the Nintendo and all, but I was truly astounded, I really didn't think this was possible. The short movie was the same as the one placed in the PSX version, and what the superbly rendered piece does is to set the scene perfectly, and before you even start to play the game the tentacles start to reach out of the screen and pull you into into the game's sick little world. But then I realised what Capcom had done to fit all this stuff in the cart, as I noticed quite heavy artefacting on the video, and that familiar mp3-style "warbling" on the audio samples, both the remnants of heavy compression techniques. But without getting into the piddling technicalities, I was still pretty excited by the time the opening in-game scene began and I was plopped into a flaming scene surrounded by the brain-craving living-dead.

File under "better late than never"... With GTA : London 1969 now out on budget re-release through "Sold Out Software" for just £9.99 here in the UK, we have posted our review of the British themed mission pack for DMA's classic isometric crime 'em up, Grand Theft Auto.

The original Grand Theft Auto was released back in early 1998 amidst a big cloud of controversy, battling the evil forces known to us all as The Censors!

Raven Software has released a brand new retail patch for their popular first-person shooter, Soldier of Fortune which have received some "rave" reviews lately (stay tuned for ours). This patch (1 Mb) fixes a lot of things, such as the CTF issue with force join and it also features a re-organized CD copy protection, head on over to 3D Files for a full list of what this patch fixes (be sure to grab it from them as well).

I just noticed over at VE that according to a news blurb on GameSpot, ION Storm's much anticipated and much delayed first-person shooter, Daikatana has gone gold (sent off for mass duplication). The game will be on store shelves all over the world during the second week of May.

Cédric 'Inoxx' Fiorentino, level designer at Epic Games has announced over at his page that he is currently working on a free Unreal Tournament level pack that will be released very soon. The level pack will contain two deathmatch levels and four CTF levels, one of them being the sequel to the very popular Unreal Tournament CTF level, Facing Worlds. There's a bunch of screenshots from all the levels over at Inoxx Industries.

The official Counter-Strike website has been updated with some new information of the next release (beta6.5) of this very popular Half-Life mod. They have also put together a zip file with all the first person weapon models that will help you convert any models to 6.5 when it's out. The reason they have to be converted is because all first person weapon models have to have a 2nd attachment point located at the place where the shell ejects from the gun. Grab that file here and visit CSnation for full information on this file.

Our partners over at ModGamer have posted a review of the Q3Fortress mod.

Having glanced through the plot of MoHo, it becomes fairly obvious that for all its development maestros, it's a bit of a rip off of a certain book. Yet I don't ever recall the idea being used in interactive media, so I'll give Lost Toys the benefit of the doubt, and hey! It makes good sense; a plot where you are a prisoner of the State and are forced to compete in gladiatorial events against your fellow hard-time-hotel occupants. And for what? For entertainment! As a prisoner, you're sentence is life behind bars, a somewhat depressing prospect for an ambitious felon like yourself, and your only hope is to work your way up the ziggurat to get a short at becoming the People's Champion - the prize being your freedom. If you can overcome the scum of the universe that you'll be pitted against, you can walk away a hero and a free man.

I noticed over at Blues that there's a litte note on Mucky Foot's web page regarding their next game, which will be announced at E3 but GameSpot UK posted an interview today, with Gary Carr of Mucky Foot who reveals that their next game will be called "Startopia", which is their new 3D RTS game. Expect more information of this game once E3 is over, but there's a bunch of spicy details on the game in GameSpot UK's interview, so be sure that you check it out.

Markus "Izn0" Sonermo of True Gamers has informed us that they have posted a bunch of photos from last weekend's Razer CPL $100,000 Tournament held in Dallas, Texas. I also suggest that you take a look at our comprehensive coverage of this event, filled with photos as well.

Today, Gamespy debuts a new column called Crunch mode where they look at the final weeks of production of a game at a particular development house. To kick it off, they visit Human Head and look at what they are up to with Rune, one of the games that I am really looking forward to.