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According to the blokes at Gone Gold, Red Storm Entertainment's upcoming Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear mission pack, Urban Operations have gone gold and will be available on the shelves soon. For more stuff on this upcoming mission pack visit the official website.

New today on EuroGamer is our in-depth hands-on preview of Earth 2150.

As in the classic sci-fi movie "The Day The Earth Caught Fire", Earth 2150 sees the planet knocked from its orbit and sent spiralling into the sun by man's weapons of mass destruction.

The chaps at Incite Games have slapped up an interview with the Rune product manager, Tim Gerritsen from Human Head Studios. It's a pretty short interview yet damn interesting as this upcoming Unreal engine powered looks real good.

BT have responded to the recent announcement of free internet access from NTL by reducing the planned price of their SurfTime service.

Another update has been made to Asheron's Call, adding (amongst other things) coloured lighting, improvements to melee combat against moving targets (yay!), new models for Drudges and Golems, festival grounds, and .. a wedding hall. No, really. You too can now get married in Asheron's Call. Amongst the more amusing changes is this one -

has posted an article looking at some new beta drivers from NVIDIA for their GeForce cards. Apparently with a little tomfoolery these allow S3TC and Full Scene Anti-Aliasing support in OpenGL games (like Quake 3).

Today's review here on EuroGamer takes a look at "Sid Meier's Antietam!", a real time wargame from Firaxis which recreates one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War.

Project Overdrive is an ambitious combination of first-person shooting, action/adventure, and a good dose of driving, that promises complete freedom "to live your life as you see fit". GA-Source have conducted an interview with project manager, Kenneth Morton, to find out more about this unique action game and this interview includes five new screenshots.

NTL looks set to finally bring Britain kicking and screaming into the 20th Century [sic] next month by offering totally free internet access - no sign-up fee, no monthly charge, and no phone bills!

Tetris! For UWindows is a new mod for Unreal Tournament, this time letting you play a fully featured Tetris in the game's user interface. Scary...

FiringSquad have posted their coverage of Microsoft's GameStock 2000.

John Scott of Raven updated his .plan with word that Soldier of Fortune (including the UK, French and German versions of it) is now in final testing, which means that it could be on its way to the duplicators in about a week if everything goes well.

New today on EuroGamer is The Dereth Diary, chronicling my growing addiction to Asheron's Call and taking an offbeat look at the game through the eyes of a newbie.

For the last month I have been addicted to it.

City Of Games have posted a strategy guide for Unreal Tournament CTF.

have slapped up an interview with AMD's chairman, Jerry Sanders. The interview covers Dell, next-gen consoles, and of course AMD's future plans.

According to a report in The Sunday Times, Alta Vista are about to launch a completely free ISP here in the UK. There will be an initial £30 setup fee, but after that there will be no monthly charges, and you will dial into an 0800 number, meaning no more phone charges.

Randy just informed me that I.am/Half-Life is now chock-full of awesome new goodies for Half-Life, Opposing Force, and Counter-Strike. There are now new mods available (including the cool new Sabaneta 2050), Counter-Strike scripts and aliases, Opposing Force maps, Half-Life single-player maps, models and skins, updated console info, and even a load of new miscellaneous files that are just too unusual and varied to describe here. And don't forget to sign up for the newsletter to get your chance to win one of three Microsoft Dual-Strike controllers.

Seems like we missed this interesting little tidbit, Gearbox Software have released the demo for their official Half-Life expansion pack, Opposing Force over at GameCenter (you could also grab it from 3D Files). It comes in two flavors : small (30mb) if you already own Half-Life and a full, stand alone version (70mb) if you don't own Half-Life.

A big new feature has been added to the OGA website. All our members can now post their own .plans on the site, with the ten most popular .plans listed on the front page of the OGA website for all the world to see. And you thought that .plans were just for the John Carmacks and Tim Sweeneys of the world!

Cached have posted an interview with DM-C3, the second place man at the recent Cyber Arena tourney.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of The Sims, the new game from Sim City creator Will Wright in which you take control of the lives of a family of "Sims", helping them find jobs, romance and stretched limos... It's just like directing your own soap opera on your computer, complete with tragic accidents, same sex relationships, and adultery.

Thanks to Andy Smith for confirming that both "Odium" and "Tzar : Burden Of The Crown" were released on schedule today here in the UK. Our Odium review was posted yesterday, but we're still waiting for our review copy of Tzar to arrive. In the meantime, check out our Tzar preview from a few months back...

British developer Rebellion are probably best known for their recent hit first person shooter "Aliens vs Predator". We talked to the company's co-founder Jason Kingsley about how they got started, the Aliens connection, and their new game - Gunlok™.

Sierra sent word that Impressions Games are working on an expansion pack called "Cleopatra" for their ancient Egyptian city building sim, Pharaoh. As well as the full expansion pack, which is due in June, they will also release a "Pharaoh Enchancement Pack" which will be available to download for free and will include the latest patch, 20 new missions, and a scenario editor.

Our friends at System Logic have launched the successor to their old "Price Watch" feature. The new system finds you the lowest prices on the net for computer hardware and software, and can be searched or browsed through to find whatever you're looking for. Unfortunately for us Europeans, the price watch system only covers American internet retailers.

City Of Games have posted a deathmatch strategy guide for Unreal Tournament.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Odium, which is due for release in the UK tomorrow.

Microsoft's GameStock 2000 is underway, with several new games (including some previously unannounced titles) being shown off. Their website features information about all the games, with StarLancer, Dungeon Siege, and the newly announced Mechwarrior 4 and MechCommander 2 all particularly worth a look.