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The official website for the new Battle Isle game from Blue Byte is now online, apparently due to "unprecedented demand from thousands of game hungry strategy fans". Ahem.

With the event over, our coverage of the Razer-CPL $100,000 Quake 3 tournament is now drawing to a close. We've got interviews with all three finalists as well as Angel Munoz of the CPL, and a big new photo gallery of pictures from the last day of the tournament, covering the matches, prize ceremony, and Sunday dinner with the European players. For a full index of our massive live coverage from the event over the last week, check here!

I noticed over at VE that Interplay's Official Baldurs Gate 2: Shadows of Amn website has been updated (by the Assistant Producer, Doug Avery of Black Isle Studios) with a short progress report on this much anticipated role-playing game. Doug mentions that things are coming along very nicely on both ends and real progress has been made to complete BG 2. Read more at the official website.

Stieg Hedlund, designer of Blizzard's much anticipated sequel to Diablo, announced today that upon conclusion of Diablo II's production he will be leaving Blizzard North to pursue game development at the newly formed Full-On Amusement Company. You can read the full announcement over at the official Full-On website.

George Broussard, head honcho at 3D Realms updated his .plan with some information about their E3 plans. They will not be showing Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) at E3, not as a video, nor in back room demos. Pretty bad news as I am really looking forward to this title and I wanted to see some fresh stuff, but they have their reasons, check his .plan for a little more in-depth explanation.

Graphically Re-Volt is very impressive. I played the PC version to death last year and the Dreamcast is a wonderfully complete conversion. The sense of scale is very precise and your surroundings feel as though they are the right shape and size. Unlike other titles of its ilk, the cars don't look out of place due to their size imbalance. You couldn't mistake them for real cars, they're definitely R/C. The radio aerial flaps in the wind and they zoom around with the remarkable acceleration found in real R/C engines. As the cars swish and swoosh through the various environments, they reflect perfectly on the buffed up wooden floor and project slight shadows on the way. The lighting is pre-rendered, and the graphics are hardly Soul Calibur, but Re-Volt is still one of the better looking Dreamcast titles.

Our Razer-CPL coverage is now over, with final results and analysis and an event overview posted, as well as a quick look at some of the tournaments coming up over the rest of the year that we'll be covering here on EuroGamer - your number one source for live event coverage!

The Firearms Mod Website have been updated with a release date for this anticipated Half-Life mod, we can expect to see it on April 29th. They have also posted 12 new screenshots from the mod, as well as some images of the weapons and models, GA-Source got four new shots as well.

Rod Fung (producer), has given GA-Strategy a detailed explanation of the new levels in the multi-player add-on to SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle. Looks like this add-on will be filled with goodies such as six new missions that will take place throughout the city of Los Angeles. Sierra Studios SWAT 3: Battle Plan, the multi-player add-on to SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle is scheduled to ship Q3 2000. Battle Plan will allow gamers to experience the real world of L.A.P.D. SWAT by deploying actual SWAT weapons and tactics in new missions and multi-player modes. Thanks John.

Those kerrrazy Barrysworld people have written up their account of the PC Zone Awards, laughing along with cynicism at the irreverant and mildly insane choices in many categories. Unlike our own Gaming Globes, these awards were not publicly voted for, instead relying on the opinions of the journalists at the heart of the magazine itself to cast their views. At least, that's the impression given by the article.

PCGamer UK is playing the guessing game with regard to Epic Games' incessant registration of domain names. The unexplained registration of unrealwarfare.com, .org and .net remains so, as do the registrations of ascension.org and ascensionengine.com. A little detective work provides some interesting hypotheses, but I doubt we'll know for sure for a good few weeks, probably even months yet. Still, Epic are a very open company on the whole, and are friendly with a lot of the gaming press, so there's bound to be some sort of announcement, official or otherwise, sooner rather than later.

, probably the most enjoyable Unreal Tournament modification to have yet been released, has been suspended by its author, Brandon "GreenMarine" Reinhart of EpicGames, after numerous machine-specific bugs found their way into his carefully constructed programming. As it is, he's not sure when it'll be out again, but hopefully it won't be long. "This is a very frustrating situation."

As ConsoleGamer reports, Sony are chuckling maniacally in their Japanese abodes this morning. They have managed to persuade the less hirsute types at the Japanese Trade Ministry that the PS2 could be used as a missile guidance system and therefore exports of multiple items are illegal, until the ministry rules to the contrary. Check out the full story at ConsoleGamer, or go order an already-imported unit at MadeiraGames.com. Bombs away.

According to this story at The Register, virus security firm F-Secure is chirping about possible WAP virii doing the rounds. "If we haven't seen any type of malicious code on WAP phones by the end of the year then we will have been very lucky," enthuses the Finnish security outfit. As The Register, beloved protectors of the truth, point out, F-Secure just happen to supply the sort of software that can protect you from such malicious programming. Just think of the possibilities. Some nasty hacker could break into your phone and, yes, set your clock an hour late, immediately upsetting your daily routine with cataclysmic ramifications.

The Razer-CPL tournament is now over, with tourney favourite Fatality taking first prize, a small crystal trophy, and a big phat cheque for $40,000! Makaveli came in second with $20,000, and Korean newcomer PowerK came an incredible third to pick up $10,000 - expect to hear much more about this guy in the future.

Brandon "GreenMarine" Reinhart, programmer at Epic Games has updated his .plan stating that the Unreal Tournament 413 patch is now available for Linux as well. You can go to the Unreal Tech Page for a list of download mirrors as well as information on the patch. He also mentions that a new version (v1.2) of the Rocket Arena Unreal Tournament mod will be released tonight, for more information on this version check out the official website.

The grand final of the Razer-CPL $100,000 Quake 3 tournament in Dallas is about to start! Once again Fatality and Makaveli faced each other in the winners bracket final, with Fatality coming out undefeated again. Makaveli went on to have a tense game with Korean star PowerK, who has impressed many this weekend. In the end though Makaveli took the game, and now he faces Fatality again in the final. Full match reports coming later today! In the meantime, check out the rest of our Razer-CPL live coverage!

Our coverage of the Razer-CPL semi-finals is now up, with reports on DOOMer vs Blue in the losers bracket, Makaveli vs dethstalker in the winners bracket, and dethstalker vs Sector in the losers bracket semi-final play-off.

Our coverage of Saturday's action at the Razer-CPL tournament in Dallas is now up, with reports on several key matches from the second to fifth rounds, as well as an interview with American player Wombat, and analysis of the day's results, which have been something of a surprise for everybody!

Our coverage of Saturday here at the Razer-CPL event is now almost done, with reports on several key matches from rounds three through to five, taking in performances from Fatality, Sujoy, Kane, Blokey, Rix, Makaveli, Wombat, Shub and Vise along the way. Check here for a full index of our Razer-CPL coverage!

GA-Source have slapped up a brief Q&A with Dave Perry of Shiny Entertainment, concerning Messiah, his recently-released Cherub-em-up. Topics covered include his own lifestyle, and Shiny's next title, the PC-based Sacrifice.

What's the big fuss over Rollcage Stage II screenshots, you may ask. I mean, we reviewed it only the other week. Well, these have been debuted to GA-Sports by the chaps over at Matrox, exemplifying something called EMBM, Environment Mapped Bump Mapping, and look very impressive. Check out this page of thumbnails and click for the larger images.

IGNPC have interviewed Valve Software's Robin Walker about Team Fortress 2. The interview discusses the direction the project has changed since last year, weapons/player balance and the differences between TF2 and other titles, such as Rogue Spear and Delta Force 2.

If you're an owner of a 3dfx-based graphics card, you probably know about WickedGL. According to 3dFiles.com, there's a new version available for download with significant performance increases. If you don't know what it is, take a look at this guide to installing it to work with Quake3, over at PlanetQuake, written by yours truly in a previous life.

A patch for the fantastic Quake 3 Fortress modification has been released, bringing the game up to version 1B. You can download it from the official files page, it weighs in at a fairly light 2.8Mb, compared to the original 35Mb file! If you have yet to download any of it, you can read the online documentation while it's downloading.

An item very close to my own heart, Christopher Hill's GeForce FAQ, has been updated to version 9.9a, to include information relating to the leaked drivers which can be found on sites like Reactor Critical. Personally, I'd like to see an interview with one of the NVIDIA executives asking why these drivers have to be "leaked" when it's obvious that they're being distributed below board by someone at NVIDIA anyway. Why not just slap "Beta" on the end and be done with it?

Ritual Entertainment's Tom "Paradox" Mustaine (a genuinely pleasant man, speaking from previous experience) has been interviewed by the legitimate arm of The Mushroom. It's standard 20 question fare but there's plenty of information in there about Ritual's upcoming Quake III Arena engine title, Heavy Metal: FAKK2.

Brandon Reinhart has had a busy Saturday, but has now posted the bug-fixed version 1.1 of Rocket Arena: Unreal Tournament. If you downloaded version 1.0 earlier today, grab this patch, but if like me, you've only just discovered the news, you might as well grab the whole jumbo Zip (10.5Mb)

The man behind everyone's favourite Hardware / Overclocking site HardOCP, the infamous Kyle Bennett is hosting a free Hardware Workshop at the Razer/CPL event in Dallas. He's what he has to say: "Remember it is a no charge workshop, so come on down to the Hyatt in downtown Dallas if you are a hardware junkie or don't have much to do. We have lots of prizes for the attendees." So if you're in the area, or reading this on your WAP phone at the event, why not pop along: learn something new, win some prizes, or just point & laugh when Kyle fries another mobo right before your eyes!

Today's review on Eurogamer is UEFA Champions League 1999/2000, a soccer title from Silicon Dreams. This yearly update of the Champions League license aims to directly compete with the epicurean FIFA 2000 from EA Sports, but how does it hold up in the heated soccer gaming arena? Find out in our review.