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Jason Hall, CEO at Monolith updated his .plan stating that they have released all the LithTech GDC Demo Stuff they displayed. As a bonus they have also released five new LithTech PS2 screenshots of the GDC PC demo in action, you can grab it all from their website.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Atlantis 2, a lush rendered adventure game from French publisher Cryo. Can it live up to its promise, or is it destined to sink without a trace? Read our review to find out!

The Shugashack have slapped up a pretty lenghty interview with Cliff Bleszinski, designer over at Epic Games and he is the guy behind some real nice maps in Unreal Tournament. Cliff talks about Unreal Tournament, console FPS, what game he would like to make, and much more.

Our UK Release Date list has been updated again. Today was a good day, with several new UK releases including Soldier of Fortune, Force Commander, Star Trek Armada, EuroLeague Football, and Tiger Woods PGA Golf. Thanks to Nemesis for confirming those!

New today on EuroGamer is the first part of a massive two part interview with Ion Storm's Warren Spector. Next week we'll be talking to him about his latest game, the stunning Unreal-engined first person RPG, Deus Ex.

Even if you haven't heard of Warren Spector, the chances are that you have played one of the many games he has worked on over the years - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Ultima VI, System Shock, Ultima Underworld, and even the original Wing Commander. And today he is at Ion Storm's Austin studio putting the finishing touches to Deus Ex, a stunning first person RPG based on the Unreal engine.

The busy chaps at SimHQ have posted an interview with Gary Stelmack of Red Storm Entertainment, talking about the new Rogue Spear mission pack, Urban Operations. The interview also includes several new shots of the pack in action.

Mod groups might not be as common in the tank sim genre as they are in the first person shooter community, but SimHQ have posted an interview with Michael McConnell and Michael Peters of the Panzer Elite Development Group, and Teut Weidemann, one of the game's original designers. The feature takes a look at the PEDG, which was set up to add new vehicles, graphics and sounds to Panzer Elite.

The Sony Playstation 2 received a monumental response when it launched in Japan on the 4th of this month. Selling in the region of 1,000,000 units in its first weekend, the machine created a footprint in the gaming economy bigger than the Dreamcast managed in 6 weeks of general sale. A fact that Sony has been pushing around the press battlefields with a JCB the size of Central Europe! But just what is it that's going to make the Playstation 2 the machine to own in the year 2000?

Toshinden 4 continues the ongoing story line of its predecessors. However, the usual hero Eiji has now turned villain, turning to the 'dark side'. His son, Subaru, has been left to pick up the pieces, and clean up the now tainted family name. With the assistance of a veteran of the Toshinden wars, you must guide Subaru through many gruelling fights in your search for the reasoning behind your father's transformation. As you'd expect from the game, there's going to be a huge variety of moves you can get Subaru to perform. Skill and timing will be of the essence, if you are to succeed against the game's many adversaries. Apparently a lot of work has been put into making even the most advanced of attacking moves easy to perform. Something of a blessing, when you consider some games require a stupidly complex combination of pad presses to perform a simple move. Things are made even simpler with the introduction of the 'overdrive' mode. This allows players to produce devastating combinations of moves, with only the touch of a button and a directional button.

New today on EuroGamer is our preview of Arcatera, a role-playing adventure game featuring a mix of real time 3D characters and gorgeous pre-rendered back drops, plus a non-linear storyline with ten possible endings, and hundreds of locations to visit and characters to speak to.

Role-playing games are enjoying something of a resurgence at the moment, with titles like Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate and Diablo impressing reviewers and players alike.

Eidos fired a press release our way announcing that they are working on an official Sydney 2000 Olympics game, which will appear on PC, Playstation, Dreamcast, N64, Colour GameBoy, and Atari ST. Well, maybe not the last one.

Rick Johnson, lead programmer over at Raven Software updated his .plan file announcing that the inital version of the SoF SDK has been released. This SDK contains a version of Radiant for SoF, the BSP utilities, scripting compiler, ghoul exporter, documentation, and the original map and script files for the first level of the game (the New York Subway). You can grab this SDK (3.56 Mb) from either SoF News or SoF Center.

For all you Linux geeks out there, GameSpy have written up an interview with Loki Games, the folks who have ported games like Civilization : Call to Power to Linux, published the Linux flavoured Quake 3 Arena, and are currently working on a Linux Heavy Gear II...

The official demo for the English language version of Earth 2150 has been released. Weighing in at a bandwidth sapping 81Mb, you can find it mirrored here over at 3D Files.

The lovely Kazi Wren and her viking hordes over at Ragnarok have posted a new movie of Rune in action (AVI - 29.5Mb), apparently featuring "new creatures, new levels, blood-splattering combat and more" from the forthcoming Unreal-engined fantasy action game.

Must be visiting hours... GameLinks.net have slapped up an interview with Lulu LaMer (what a great name), the associate producer of "Thief 2 : The Metal Age", the sequel to first person sneak 'em up and most appropriately subtitled game of 1998, "Thief : The Dark Project".

The Evil One over at Evil Avatar fired off a few questions to Epic Games' lead programmer, Tim Sweeney about the performance of Unreal Tournament and future enhancements we can expect. This Q&A Session features some very interesting answers from Tim Sweeney so be sure that you don't miss this one.

Richard Stutz informed me that 3DGaming.net have slapped up an article entitled the "Diablo II Beta Test Conspiracy" (pretty self-explanatory). 3DGN reveals to the world just how one gets accepted for the Diablo II beta test and why we should all laugh at the variety of nutjobs who did, it is a fun editorial so check it out.

Today's review here on EuroGamer is of Final Fantasy VIII, the latest in the series of epic Japanese console RPGs to make the journey to the PC. Has the game lost anything in the translation? Read our review to find out!

The newly opened UO2 Vault has posted a big interview with Ultima Online 2's lead designer, Damion Schubert.

GameSurge have posted an interview with one of the team behind the NATO mod for Rogue Spear

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, along comes another press release from Monolith. This time they've signed to develop content using the LithTech engine for RealNetworks, best known for their RealPlayer streaming audio and video doohickey.

There's a new patch for Unreal Tournament (v413) out today, weighing in at a modest 5.6Mb and fixing the green skin problem amongst other changes - thanks to PlanetUnreal for the heads up.

Following last Thursday's Dispatches episode titled "Video Nasties", which gave a rather skewed and heavily biased view of the gaming violence debate, EuroGamer has posted its own response to the programme. "Video Nasty?" takes a look at the evidence presented in the programme, and comes up with some suggestions on how to minimise any potential risk to young children without resorting to the blanket censorship of violent games recommended by Dispatches.

Last Thursday evening, Channel 4 aired an episode of their current affairs programme "Dispatches" titled "Video Nasties", taking a look at the effect of violent games.

Our UK release dates list has been updated again, this time adding the latest release information from THQ, whose semi-sequel to X : Beyond The Frontier, "X-Tension", is due for release on April 28th. We've also got updated information from Virgin, with the UK release date for MDK2 slipping back another three weeks to the end of May.

Fox Interactive sent word that their hit 3D platform game sequel, Croc 2, will be appearing on the PC at the end of next month, featuring a two player "OmniPlay" mode, new bosses including "Cannon Boat Keith" (no, really), and a trader by the name of "Swap Meet Pete". Sadly his name won't be localised to "Car Boot Sale Dale" for the UK release of the game...

Earlier this week Aureal announced that most of their senior management had quit the company en masse. Today Tech Extreme have interviewed Aureal's Product Manager, talking mostly about the latest version of A3D and its development. There's almost nothing about the company's current problems (apparently he can't talk about that yet), but Tech Extreme are promising a follow-up interview with more information about what the future holds (if anything) for Aureal.