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New today on EuroGamer (yes, we're starting early this morning) is our review of the SideWinder Dual Strike gamepad from Microsoft, designed with first and third person action games in mind. Does it work in its chosen genres? We checked to find out...

- MicrosoftPrice - about £40

When somebody comes along and says that they are going to make playing games over the internet as smooth as playing them over a LAN, you would be excused for being skeptical.

System Logic have written an article about "Overclocking For The End User", complete with visual aids.

TegSkywalker informed me that the Team Assault Quake 3 mod page has been updated with a new weapon screenshot of the HWGuy's chaingun that will be used in the mod.

Jay "BeOS Boy" Adair, our web monkey and resident BeOS fanatic, sends word that a free version of the next release of the "multimedia operating system" BeOS will be available, as well as the normal full commercial release.

The folks at London's The Playing Fields gave us a friendly reminder (ow!) that you can now sign-up to take part in the UK qualifiers for the Razer-CPL tourney.

We've updated our UK release dates list again, this time with the latest information from UbiSoft, who threw a little press party down at London's The Playing Fields this afternoon.

The boys at Unreal Universe spotted an interesting post on the official Duke Nukem Forever message board. It's about Co-op play in Duke Nukem Forever but 3D Realm's level designer, Charlie Wiederhold clarified that Co-op play will unfortunately not be included in DNF because it doesn't work in a game like DNF. Here's a chunk from the huge post by Charlie:

The sleepless bloke John from GA-Strategy received a little development update on the upcoming 3D real-time strategy game, The Rift from ThrushWave. Apparently the game is nearing completion and is expected to be released early this summer. Check out GA-Strategy for some screenshots and a few tasty details.

Officer Rich and his gang at Gone Gold have posted a blurb announcing that Maxis upcoming game, The Sims has officially gone golden (this was confirmed by Electronic Art's). Unfortunately, it will take a bit longer before the game hit the European shelves. Hopefully not too long because I'm certainly looking forward to this baby.

I received an email from Randy of I.am/Half-Life (and all those other sweet I.am sites). Here's the full mail:

Robert Duffy has updated his .plan with news that there will be a second "point release" in the next week to address problems with using mods with the game. Um .. hello id, that's a patch, not a point release.

The 3D RTS Earth 2150 has been raising quite a storm in its native Germany, but until now it hasn't been available in English. The word from German publishers TopWare is that they have signed with Mattel Interactive (the folks behind the Mindscape and Red Orb labels amongst many others) to publish the game worldwide.

The Oxygen Tank have the first information about HeadHunters 3, a mod in which if you can keep your head while all around are losing theirs, you will be notching up the frags...

"Just The Movies" have released a whacky looking Quake 2 movie called "Road To Coma" featuring voice acting, music, and loads of new models... You'll need the latest version of Quake 2 to view the movie, which you can grab from the JTM website.

These days more and more games seem to be based on established "licenses", such as movies, novels, or comic books.

Our UK Release Date list has been updated with the latest information from Infogrames. The release dates for most of their games have changed since we last heard from them in December, and several new games have been added to their list.

Q3Center are hosting a Quake 3 (duh) level design competition, with a DDR GeForce 256 based graphics card as the first prize. You'll need one to run Q3Radiant! Full information here.

We've kicked off a new competition here on EuroGamer today, giving you the chance to win one of two MS Sidewinder Dual Strike gamepads!

The Online Gaming Association's team recruitment system has now been activated over on the OGA website.

For those of you looking to stress test your system with Quake 3, Manta has recorded a crusher demo for the game, featuring thirty players duking it out on Q3DM1 during one of Barrysworld's "megagames".

A beta version of the patch for Planescape Torment is now available here. This should fix the slowdown bug which I mentioned in my review of the game, as well as a number of other problems. Check the readme file for the full list of fixes.

If you're wondering which games that sold the most during December month, then be sure to check out the latest "PC Top Selling List" (for the week of 12/26/99-1/1/00) from PC Data. Apparently, Half-Life is still going strong - it's on the tenth place (remember, this game was released about two years ago and it has been on the list ever since). Without further notice, here's the list:

has posted part four of their Baldur's Gate II Developer Journal which is written by the Art Director Marcia Tofer, he talks about what it's like building a fantasy world from scratch. Baldur's Gate II is scheduled for a release late this year, and while you wait you can check out the previous installments:

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Planescape Torment, the new role playing game from Black Isle Studios based on the engine that powered 1998's surprise hit, Baldur's Gate.

Westwood has released a new patch for their real-time strategy game, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (v1.17a) which fixes a bunch of various stuff, this might be the last patch before the official expansion pack is released. You can download the file (2.2 Mb) from 3D Files.

Robert Duffy has updated his .plan announcing that the Quake III: Arena Source Code has been released, together with the source code is a text file entitled "How to make a mod" so for all you experienced mod makers you should have no problem getting started. Here's the full .plan update:

GA-Source received three neat screenshots from IO Interactive's upcoming, Hitman: Codename 47.

Sid "Name On Front Of Box In Six Foot Tall Letters" Meier has posted the third installment of his Dino Diaries, this time taking a look at resources, and whether the game should be based around a single "big world" with continuous and open-ended play (a la Civilization), or be a series of "varied scenarios" set on smaller maps with definite goals.