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Evergrace is a beautiful game - thanks to the Playstation 2's use of light and colour. Instead of the clear-cut, but not terribly detailed approach of many PC titles running at resolutions of 640x480, Evergrace pushes back the boundaries of console graphics systems. Every blade of grass, every droplet of water, everything in the game shimmers and glitters; the use of dynamic lighting is impressive. To give you an idea - consider how shocking it was to see Quake2 on the PC powered by 3d acceleration back when 3d cards were only just filtering through to the mainstream. The leap in quality and quantity of effects is truly astounding. In a way the game does mimic Zelda on the N64; you'll certainly be right at home if you've played that title. You control a young fellow called Yu-Iterald, or if you're that-way inclined, a lass named Shalami. Each character has several movements, each of which befits a certain combat situation. By pressing Select, the player can access a Weapons Configuration menu where weapons and armour can be rotated.

Warlock sent word that Blade Universe have posted their lastest Screenshot of the Week (SotW) for Rebel Act Studios' fantasy hack-fest Blade. This latest shot shows off a weapon rack, and gives you a good idea the pain you will be able to inflict when the game is released later this year. We're talking hammers, swords, staffs, big-ass shields - you won't find a RailGun amongst them, but then again, you can't dismember your opponent limb-by-limb like you can with a 4-foot length of cold-forged steel. Bring it on!

After being gibbed by a virtual RailGun shot from Dallas (was that Gestalt on the grassy knoll?), it's time for some of the headlines outside the gibfest in Dallas. - Geoff

Top British dueller Blokey has just beaten fourth seed Xenon 12 : 8 in the third round of the massive Razer-CPL tournament here in Dallas! Check our coverage for a full report on the match!

Continuing our coverage of the Razer-CPL event in Dallas, we have just posted a big write-up of John Carmack's workshop on graphics technology, including all the interesting and comprehensible parts of his at times rather technical speech. The write-up covers the future of computer graphics, id's next game and the engine that will power it, how lighting works in computer games, and much much more!

The latest addition to our coverage of the Razer-CPL tournament here in Dallas is a look at the future of the CPL itself. CPL founder Angel Munoz gave out some big new information about what the CPL has in mind for the future, including a $200,000 tournament and a shift of focus from duels to international teamplay competitions. For the full scoop, head over here!

Thanks to event organisers The CPL, our venue the Hyatt Regency in downtown Dallas, and main event sponsors Razer for making it all possible!

It's known as the most prestigious of footballing tournaments. The competition to end all competitions. The silverware that every professional club aspires to. The league of champions. The glory and the glitz, the making or breaking of a football team's season. I give you .. the UEFA Champions League!

Our Razer-CPL coverage continues here on EuroGamer, with an interview with one of American's top players, Makaveli. We've also started up Friday's photo gallery with a few pics from this morning, and posted scores for today's qualifier free-for-alls.

If you're thinking that GT2 is going to be a vastly different game to it's predecessor, you'll be sadly mistaken. Basically, it's more of the same, with the onus firmly on not fixing that which isn't broken. One of the main differences between the two is the sheer volume of cars available for selection. Whereas GT gave you something like 250 cars, GT2 gives you a whopping 600! The sheer variety of makes and models is incredible, with a total of 33 manufacturers included. 19 of these are European, an area decidedly lacking in GT. GT2 also has a bigger assortment of tracks to hurtle round. There are 20 normal, and 6 dirt tracks. The dirt tracks really are a great addition to the road based tracks we're used to. You will need to choose the proper wheel type for rallying, or just to look cool in replays! This is done from the wheel selection screen, another new feature. A total of nine wheel manufacturers are present. The most notable of the game improvements though, has to be the inclusion of car damage. Collisions and scrapes now have a knock-on effect to your vehicle's performance. This means you can no longer simply rush a corner, knocking the other cars out of the way. Darn!

It's now Friday here in Dallas, and in just over an hour the remaining qualifier free-for-all matches will get underway. The results for all fifteen qualifiers from yesterday are now online, and we've also added several more pics to our photo gallery. Finally there is an introduction to Friday's action, with scores, interviews and match reports coming later today - stay tuned for more!

's Brian Raffel made a short .plan update today. You may find it interesting...

Our Razer-CPL coverage continues with an interview with DOOMer of Swedish super-team "Clan 9". We chatted to him about their chances in the tournament and the big Scandinavian contingent at the Razer-CPL event, as well as Xenon and Hakeem's practice (or lack thereof) for the big tournament. For the full scoop, read the interview now!

As part of our on-going coverage of the Razer-CPL tournament, we've now posted a short interview with Blokey, the winner of the official Razer-CPL UK qualifier in London a few weeks back. We chatted to him about his chances this weekend, the lack of other British players at the event, and the state of the UK Quake 3 scene.

The latest news over on the CPL website is that Russian Razer-CPL representative Pele has been denied a visa to attend the event!

Our live coverage of the massive Razer-CPL Quake 3 tournament in Dallas continues, with a look at the venue and the way the tournament is going to run now up, adding to our pre-tourney build-up, which yesterday looked at some of the key competitors who will be taking part in this $100,000 event.

With Asheron's Call due for release tomorrow in the UK, EuroGamer has posted its full review of the game. With so many massively multiplayer fantasy RPGs either already released or in the works, has Asheron's Call got what it takes to stand out from the growing crowd? Read our review to find out!

Massively multiplayer RPGs are all the rage these days, with a veritable flood of them currently in development. Asheron's Call is the latest to arrive in this God-forsaken land (aka England), having proven to be a big success in the USA over the last few months.

, Massive Entertainment and WON.net have announced that they are looking for 1,000 beta testers for the upcoming 3D action real-time strategy game, Ground Control which is scheduled for a summer release. They will be selecting beta testers based on:

The official Counter-Strike website have been updated with some very interesting news, it has now been officially announced that the Counter-Strike Team and Valve Software are from now partners, so we can expect some good things for this very popular Half-Life mod soon. Head on over to the Counter-Strike website for the official announcement.

The official Quake 3 Fortress mod website have been updated with some information about the upcoming patch (or 'update' as it is called as well) for the previous beta they released. This update includes a large number of bug fixes and game-play tweaks, plus some new sounds and a complete documentation overhaul (including custom CFGs). It should address a large number of the current issues, and make the whole experience of playing and running Q3F even better. This update will be released on Saturday 15th April at around 12 Midnight.

Two new patches have been released and you can as usual grab them from 3D Files:

New today on EuroGamer is our review of "Invictus : In The Shadow Of Olympus", a voxellated real time strategy / role playing game hybrid loosely based on Greek mythology. Is it a match made in heaven, or a torture worthy of inflicting on Tantalus? Read our review to find out!

Invictus is (rather loosely) based on ancient Greek mythology - the goddess Athena has returned from mentoring Odysseus, who went on to kill Poseidon's son on his way home from the Trojan war. Poseidon is none too pleased, and dismisses the whole thing as a fluke.

With hundreds of players taking part and $100,000 of cash prizes to win, the Razer-CPL event in Dallas, Texas is the biggest pro-gaming tournament ever held, and of course EuroGamer will be there covering the event! To kick things off we have posted our pre-tourney build-up, with a look at the main competitors who are likely to walk home with the big prizes this weekend.

The Gamer's Press have posted a walkthrough to Looking Glass Studios' recently released adventure game, Thief 2: The Metal Age. This walkthrough goes up to mission 3, so expect some more installments soon, there's a few general Thief 2 tips as well.

The Soldier of Fortune Center have posted the tenth installment of their weekly designer's diary written by Keith Fuller, programmer at Raven Software. In this installment Keith talks about his introduction to the Soldier of Fortune project and how he started out, it's a good read so be sure to check it out.

Creature Labs, the company behind the "Creatures" series of games and a forthcoming title about the Abominable Snowman, have added to their already bizarre repertoire with a game based on .. sea monkeys. For those of us thankfully too young to remember sea monkeys, they were apparently dehydrated packs brine shrimps that came to life when you added water to them.

Do you even care what the plot was in a game like Doom, or Quake? I never did, I just played them, but Infogrames evidently don't subscribe to the school of forgettable storylines - instead they've practically written a book about Slave Zero! Megacity lives atop a ruined Beijing, 500 years into the future, and is made up of "decks", the lower ones being the residential areas, the middle ones being military in focus and there are plenty of other areas, including laboratories and sewers, all of which you'll see during the game. The game is based around a mission structure, of which there are 15, set all over the city. You're guided by a "controller", who explains to you what's to be done and such. Controlling your mech in the PC version would be very simple indeed, using the time-honoured (and now well-established) combination of mouse and keyboard. On the Dreamcast that sort of combo is of course feasible with the right peripherals, but the mouse doesn't yet exist and Slave Zero doesn't support the keyboard anyway. The controller must therefore be used to handle the game, and it must be said that it's a smidgeon less than intuitive, especially for perpetual first person gamers. Thankfully a little perseverance soon gets you going and the game is easy enough after a while.