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Games based on old rock bands are generally pretty awful - Iron Maiden's "Ed Hunter" and Queen's "The Eye" spring to mind .. unbidden, like some hideous waking nightmare that you are unable to shake from your memory.

This week we're happy to welcome back Jason Kingsley from British developer Rebellion, who we first interviewed back in March. Since then Rebellion has bought out cult sci-fi comic book company "2000AD", and announced some changes to their latest title, Gunlok. We caught up with Jason to find out more about what the take-over of 2000AD means for the two companies, and what the real truth behind the recent Gunlok announcements is. For the full scoop, read our interview with Jason!

BritSoft developer Rebellion, the company behind last year's hit first person shooter "Aliens vs Predator", surprised the gaming industry two weeks ago by announcing that they had bought cult comic book company 2000AD, the brains behind Mega City 1 cop Judge Dredd and a whole host of other cult characters and settings.

Today's dose of eye candy is a batch of eight exclusive new screenshots of Infestation, the impressive looking vehicle-bound action game from BritSoft company Frontier Developments, the people behind the Elite series and V2000. The shots are taken from a review copy of the game, running on a GeForce 2 GTS graphics card with full-scene anti-aliasing enabled. Mmm... Give that candy a chew!

Thanks to those lovely people at Microsoft we have five copies of their imaginatively titled "Flight Simulator 2000 Professional Edition" to give away to you lucky readers! As you may have guessed from the game's title, it's a flight sim released earlier this year by Microsoft. All you have to do for your chance to win a copy of the game is to send your name and address on the back of an e-mail to john@eurogamer.net, and complete the following sentence - "Flying a jumbo jet is fun, because..."

In the early days of the computer gaming industry, many top games were produced by a handful of geeks working out of somebody's attic or garage. Today games have budgets that can stretch into millions of dollars, and teams can include literally dozens of artists and programmers. Creative control has moved from the designers themselves to the big name publishers who can foot the development bill.

With the imminent release of Deus Ex here in Europe, many people have forgotten that Ion Storm have another promising looking RPG in the works - the Quake 2 engined "Anachronox", produced by a team led by the mad brain that is Tom Hall. In an interview on TechExtreme Andrew Thomas, one of Tom's minions, reported that "development is coming along great".

Eidos have launched the official website for their promising looking tactical shooter "Project IGI", or "I'm Going In" as the Yanks call it. The site includes a detailed look at the game's storyline, as well as screenshots, movies and renders from the game, as well as information about the weapons, with a series of developers' diaries coming soon. The site is rather Flash heavy, making it a little unfriendly for us poor modem users .. oh, and if you're epileptic, watch out for that strobing loading screen - eugh.

NetKills have slapped up an article about making models for Half-Life / Counter-Strike

New today on EuroGamer is a massive in-depth review of "The New Adventures Of The Time Machine", a gorgeous new 3D adventure game from French purveyors of the bizarre Cryo Interactive, rather loosely based on the classic HG Wells novel "The Time Machine". Can the gameplay and storyline match the graphics? Does the game live up to the Time Machine name? And will you be able to undo the damage which Herbert George Wells has caused with his time travelling? Read our review to find out more!

It's the 1st of January 1893. Herbert Wells prepares to realise a life's dream .. to travel through time. The design and construction of the Time Machine took almost ten years, but now it is ready to be tested.

Something, which I found interesting, is the latest in Gamasutras excellent series of articles on life and time in the gaming industry. Today they look at something that has only really become apparent in the industry in the last months. The fact that it is becoming increasingly common to see harsh reviews or bad press that devastate a game's popularity and sales performance.

Kuju Entertainment is one of the biggest developers in Europe. Based just outside of London. It has a reputation for being on the cutting edge of technology. Microsoft approached Kuju to do a demo for the XBox, and the result was Tau, a colorful and ethereal demonstration of what the XBox can do. That was the demo that stunned people during Bill Gates first XBox presentation at last years Games Developers Conference.

The much maligned Macintosh games market got a shot in the arm this morning as Microsoft announced as it was to form an alliance with a new startup company with the aim of bringing key Microsoft titles to the world of the Macintosh. The new startup company headed by Peter Tamte, who was the founder of MacSoft, former senior director of worldwide consumer marketing for Apple Computer Inc. and former executive vice president of Bungie Software Products Corp.

has been updated with a report on the recent Ladies Night which they hosted, which saw female gamers descending on the London venue to frag the night away in aid of the Breast Cancer Campaign. In the end they managed to raise £650 for the charity, a worthy reason for a night's hardcore gaming if you ask me. For the full story and photographs (including an amusing one of a journalist who tried to sneak into the party in drag!), read the report over at the TPF website.

Videologic announced today that they are about to release their new SonicFury soundcard, or "audio accelerator" as they call it. Weighing in at just £80, the card supports all the major sound APIs (DirectSound3D, EAX, Sensaura, A3D and DLS) as well as featuring full Dolby Digital support for DVD fanatics such as myself, and has more input and output jacks than you would know what to do with. The SonicFury also boasts a dynamic Digital Signal Processor which allows acceleration of everything from 3D sound effects to MP3 playback.

Today's preview here on EuroGamer takes a hands-on look at "X-Tension", the massive mission pack for last year's free-form space trading and combat sim "X : Beyond The Frontier". The original game promised to be an Elite for the new millenium, but fell rather short of its ambitions, earning a meagre 3/10 when we reviewed it last October. But X-Tension looks to correct most of the flaws of the original, giving X a whole new lease of life. For the full story and four new screenshots of the stunning new graphics engine, read our preview!

Back in the early days of EuroGamer, October last year to be precise, we reviewed "X : Beyond The Frontier". Touted as an Elite for the next century, the game sadly fell far short of its ambitions, and our review labelled it as "dull, tedious, repetitive, boring, and highly frustrating".

In a terrible move for on-line gaming ASUSTeK Computer the other day announced its new secret weapon. The AGP-V7700 and AGP-V7100 series graphics cards - the 3D SeeThrough TM technologies. "ASUS always provides the best value for our customers." said Jonathan Tsang, vice president of marketing and sales division of ASUSTeK Computer Inc. "The ASUS 3D SeeThrough TM technologies are developed for users to be a constant winner in the adventure or action 3D games. There are three special weapons for ASUS VGA cards' users - Transparent View, Wireframe View, and Extra Light. If you do not have an ASUS VGA card - be careful! Never compete in the 3D games with anyone who has an ASUS VGA card. Because the only result is to loose"

There seems to be a never ending stream of role playing games these days. One thing that is amazing is the quality of most of them is very good indeed. Its rare we see a full price 'turkey', a bad game or a piece or rubbish. The latest in the line of games that seem to be very good indeed is Throne of Darkness, to be published by Sierra. Lets get it straight here, I'm no fan of RPG's. It is rare that I would play one. I generally find the plot lines either boring or just plain funny "Rescue the magic sword of snargle, and then kill the hob goblin with the magic wand that you have to steal off the witch before the house falls on her" and that kind of thing. I plain don't like it, but I have to say that this game seems different.

Doom is still THE game. QuakeWorld players, and indeed hardcore fans of every game will tell you they, and the game they play is the best. But Doom was the first, first person shooter to break into big markets. It is the game that made iD software what it is today, and without it, we would never have seen a Quake series. Doom was the first game with real, playable network code. I actually was playing doom 2 at a lan a few weeks ago, and it was more fun that most games that gets thrown at shelves these days.

In another big move today, CNET Networks has agreed to acquire Ziff-Davis (CNET) for $1.6 billion in stock, The Wall Street Journal reported in Wednesday's electronic edition. Under terms of the deal, CNET will exchange 0.59 of a share for each of Ziff-Davis' 85 million shares, the newspaper reported.

Swedish developer Daydream Software have announced that they have now released Clusterball, "an online sport, designed to invoke the same adrenaline rush as Quake and Unreal, but replacing the spatter and gore with pure gameplay". The rather fetching looking 3D accelerated game sees you racing against other players to grab balls and drag them back to a goal ring.

LittleWhiteDog reviews the SWAT mod for Unreal Tournament

The analogue modem might seem like ancient history with the advent of ADSL and cable modems, but Elsa has announced that it will be releasing a new range of v.92 ready modems as early as this autumn. Owners of older Elsa modems will apparently be able to trade in for one of the new models. Full details can be found in the press release.

German publisher Blue Byte has announced that they have signed a contract for their first flight sim, "IL-2 Sturmovik". The game will let you fly seventeen different planes, including the Soviet IL-2 of the title, and features six historical campaigns set during the war on the eastern front from 1941 to 1945. This is certainly the first World War Two flight sim that I can remember which focuses on Soviet planes, and it should certainly give an interesting new spin on the conflict. Check the press release for the full story.

In earth-shatteringly surprising news (ahem), Sierra has revealed that the eagerly awaited hack 'n' slash RPG "Diablo II" by Blizzard has broken all previous records by shifting a staggering one million copies worldwide in its first two weeks of release, including 350,000 just here in Europe! The game looks like being one of the biggest hits of the year on the PC, and there is even a Macintosh version due for release in August. For the full story, read the press release from Sierra.

Rebellion, the company behind Aliens vs Predator and now the owner of 2000 AD comics, has dropped a bomb shell with the announcement that their latest game, Gunlok, has undergone a rather drastic overhaul since it was shown at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles earlier this year.

Today's review here on EuroGamer takes a look at "Open Tennis 2000" from Cryo. With Wimbledon just over, could this be the tennis fix you're looking for? Can the gameplay match the sumptious graphics? Can the AI opponents stand up to the punishment, or will it be "game, set and match" before they know what's happening? Read our review to find out...

With Wimbledon now over you may find yourself hankering after a little bit more tennis action. Whether it's pure coincidence or not, the PC games market has been hit by a couple of big hitting tennis titles recently. Roland Garros French Open 2000, to give it's full title, is one of these games.