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Our coverage of the third round (both winners and losers brackets) of yesterday's Razer-CPL UK qualifier is now up, including full match reports on Jayz vs Billox, as well as the very exciting Acquiesce vs Kalliath and Kalliath vs Nightwing matches. As usual, we also have the full scores and overviews for each of the brackets as well.

Our friends over at AdventureGamer have posted an interview with Tony Warriner, co-founder of Revolution Software, the company behind classic games like Broken Sword and Beneath A Steel Sky. The interview talks about their new action / adventure game, "In Cold Blood".

Our coverage of the second round matches and the first and second round losers bracket games from yesterday's Razer-CPL UK qualifier are now up, including full reports on five more matches and a quick report on a sixth, plus overviews and full score lists for the rounds.

Our coverage of the first round of the Razer-CPL event's UK qualifier is now complete, with full reports on five of the first round matches, quick takes on a couple more, an overview of the first round, and of course full results from all the games.

The tournament might have just ended, but the first of our detailed match reports from the Razer-CPL UK qualifer are already up here at EuroGamer!

The finals of the Razer CPL qualifier being run all day today at The Playing Fields in London have just finished. [UNR]Blokey defeats [UNR]Luke 18-7. Congratulations to [UNR]Blokey who will be flown to the RazerCPL $100,000 tournament in Dallas, Texas with £1,000 spending money. [UNR]Luke will take home £250 for being second place, with [EED]Billox the recipient of £125 and third place.

The losers' bracket finals have just finished with [UNR]Luke defeating Quakeadelica champ [EED]Billox 9-4. The finals will be played between [UNR]Blokey, so far undefeated in each round, and [UNR]Luke. This means that our three favourites, all members of the UK Quake 2 team, will be placed in the top three positions. Expect the final result as soon as we get it.

John from GA-Source informed me that Diversions Entertainment have released the first movie (22Mb) from their upcoming 3D robotic fighter, One Must Fall: Battlegrounds, according to John this AVI features 100% in game footage and is highly recommended. To find out more about this game, check out GA-Source's interview with Lead Designer, Rob Elam. This article also includes two exclusive screenshots.

The 3D Portal Network have launched a new site dedicated to Epic Games' latest master-piece, Unreal Tournament. Say hello to 'UT World', a site dedicated to providing the latest and most in-depth help for playing Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament files, news, and other information. Be sure to check the site out as it looks very promising.

Our coverage of this weekend's UK Qualifier for the big Razer-CPL tourney in Dallas has kicked off with some pre-match build-up, taking a look at the event, the competitors, and the rules. Full results and match coverage will be appearing over the next two days, so keep your browser pointed this way for all the latest!

Our coverage of the official Razer-CPL UK qualifier now stretches to over 50 pages (full index below), and we know that most of you don't have time to sift through it all.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of the Voodoo 3 3000 PCI graphics card from 3dfx. Can it match the performance of its AGP cousins? We take a look to see if this is the perfect solution for those of you stuck without an AGP port...

- 3dfxPrice - about £100

John from GA-RPG sent me an e-mail informing me that they have posted an interview with Warren Spector, Game Designer on ION Storm's upcoming Unreal powered role-playing action/adventure, Deus Ex. Warren also gave the GA-RPG guys some exclusive/new screenshots from the game, and if you just can't get enough of this game then I suggest that you check out our preview.

The newly launched Planet Soldier of Fortune have put up the edited chatlog from yesterday's chat with Dan Kramer (programmer), John Scott (programmer), Keith Fuller (programmer) and Scott McNutt (level designer) from Raven Software. Here's an interesting snip:

Q3Center have posted the latest installment of their strategy guide, covering key bindings and configs this week.

This week's EuroGamer interview is "Blade Unsheathed". We talked with Xavier Carrillo from Spanish developers Rebel Act Studios to find out more about the company and their impressive looking third person fantasy action game, "Blade".

The latest game to be announced by Cryo is "Venice", an online resource management and trading game set in 16th century Venice, the trading heart of Europe at the time. For more information and a couple of screenshots of the game, check the press release.

Continuing our on-going series of interviews with European developers, this week we take a look at Rebel Act Studios, who are currently developing an impressive looking third person action game called "Blade".

The flood of press releases from Monolith continues unabated, with the latest one announcing that Irrational Games (who developed System Shock 2) and console publisher Crave Entertainment have got together to license the LithTech engine for an as-yet unannounced Playstation 2 game.

John from GA-Source has let me know about a new first-person shooter game in development by the Slovakian development studio, Cauldron (currently developing the strategy game Battle Isle 4), besides Battle Isle 4 they are also working on another first-person action title, entitled Chaser. You can read some more brief details about the game together with 20 new screenshots of the game over at GA-Source.

I noticed over at 3D Files that Dynamix have released a new patch for their extremely popular game, Starsiege: TRIBES, which is still being played by a large amount of people. This patch fixes a turret-related bug/cheat issue as well as fixes an issue with Raindance where the Diamond Sword team was unable to place deployable objects near their entrance. As usual head on over to 3D Files for a comprehensive list of mirrors.

John from GA-Strategy sends word regarding the upcoming Metal Fatigue online demo which will be released on March 3rd, according to Psygnosis' (Metal Fatigue publishers) and it will weigh in at 24 Mb. Metal Fatigue is an upcoming 3D Real-time strategy game from Zono Inc and Psygnosis', which looks very promising, but if you don't take my word for it then check out GA-Strategy's preview of the game.

UbiSoft sent word that they are working with Disney Interactive on one or more games based on the big budget computer animated movie, Dinosaurs. The games will be available across pretty much every platform known to man - PC, Playstation, Playstation 2, Dolphin and Dreamcast.

Paul Jaquays, id Software level designer updated his .plan file announcing that they have finally released the Q3Radiant (Quake III Level Editor) manual for the public, so now you ca learn how to create levels for id's latest master-piece, Quake III: Arena. It is one lenghty manual (163 formatted pages) and it's available in two distinct "flavors." One is an MSWord version and the other one is a somewhat "raw" HTML version converted directly from the Word document. Be sure to grab it and learn how to create those maps.

New today on EuroGamer is a sneak peek at what AMD has lined up for us over the next year, based on their presentation at the recent ETC 2000 developers conference in Sheffield.

Until just a year ago gamers mostly avoided AMD's CPUs, as it was widespread knowledge that their all-important "Floating Point Unit" was slower than the ones on Intel's Pentium and Pentium II processors at equivalent clock speeds.

The official announcement for "Homeworld : Cataclysm" (which was unveiled at the Milia 2000 exhibition in the south of France) just came through from Sierra. Being developed by Vancouver's Barking Dog Studios, Cataclysm will be apparently be a full stand-alone title rather than a mission pack for Relic's hit space strategy game.

Seems like Gestalt missed this one yesterday (cut down on the Scotch you crazy Brit!), Valve Software released a little fix for the Half-Life 1.0.1.6 patch which was released yesterday, it's a fix for those of you who are running in software mode and are seeing the sky incorrectly in Badlands and Crossover. Grab this tiny little fix from 3D Files (121 Kb).

I noticed over at the Shack that RPG Vault have posted the fourth installment of their Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption Design Log written by the President of Nihilistic Software, Ray Gresko. In this installment he talks about story design in Vampire: The Masquerade, in other words it's an overview of Vampire's story, it's a good-read so be sure to check it out.