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has cancelled its planned Scandinavian and French Open events, and has announced that they will instead be running an event in Copenhagen, Denmark from October 26 to 29th. The Danish event will feature a $25,000 Quake 3 tournament, a $10,000 Counter-Strike tournament, and room for up to 1000 players to attend the LAN party.

Liquid Edge Games have just announced RoboForge, a new multiplayer game which allows players to construct their own robotic gladiators, practice against AI opponents, and then take the battle online over the internet to play against real human opponents.

It seems every week these days another mega, must play demo gets released. Most of the time you will see that a demo is huge and just wait to get it on a magazine cover CD, or until the next LAN. The last top demo I spent ages downloading and playing was UT, I remember waiting up all night, and then getting the demo early and playing it for 2 days solid. The only other time that has happened was a couple of weeks back when the Deus Ex demo was released. I was a fan of System Shock 2, and by all accounts Deus Ex was System Shock 2 with more FPS and less RPG, which was right down my street.

Surface Tension is a new site from Iikka Keranen (formerly of Ion Storm and Looking Glass, and now working on Alice) which houses all the free textures he's released over the years, now converted for use in Quake 3

One of the most innovative games of recent times has to be Alien versus Predator. Pitting two of 20th Century Fox's big movie franchises, the Alien from the alien movie series against the Predator of the Predator movie series and of course the customary amazing, virtually indestructible US marine. All this being done in a first person shooter environment. The first game was a sleeping success, it may not have the hype and pomp of Quake, but it has thousands of people playing for hours every night online across the world.

In a further step forward today for the 'evil' empire Microsoft released Internet Explorer 5.5. According to Microsoft web developers will be doing cartwheels today as IE 5.5 has made their job much easier, Microsoft say, "Internet Explorer 5.5 will make it faster and easier to create rich, Web-based applications and services". For you and me, the home and casual user, IE 5.5 is a joy because it will "make the Web easier to use, how they automate common tasks and how they provide the flexibility to use the Web any way one wants"

If your interests cross space and games there is a very good chance that you played far too many hours of last year last year's strategy game of the year, Homeworld. Even if they don't, chances are that one or two of you played it anyway. You will then, more than likely, be aware that Homeworld: Cataclysm, a full price enhanced update to Homeworld is soon to be on its way to your local games store. Interestingly, Relic, the developers of the original Homeworld are not doing the 'update', Barking Dog Studios are the ones that have been chosen to bless us with that. While Relic are not doing this, word is that they are doing a massive RTS game, to be entitled 'Homeworld 2' (or words to that effect!), although they refuse to confirm this.

Midas Interactive have announced that they have signed Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli's talents for their new football (that's "soccer" for any Yanks reading this) management game, the aptly titled "Gianluca Vialli's Premiership Manager". Due for release in October, the game will let you test your skills by managing clubs in England, Italy, Germany, France or Spain, with ten championships across the five countries to take part in. For more information about the game, read the press release.

Today's visual treat for you here on EuroGamer is another batch of eight exclusive new shots of "4x4 Evolution", the 3D accelerated off-road racer from Terminal Reality and the nice people at the Gathering Of Developers. Feed your eyes some well-earned candy - check out the new shots now! If you missed the first batch of "4x4 Evolution" shots, which are taken from a preview version of the game, you can find them here.

New today on EuroGamer is our preview of Infestation, an action-strategy game due for release from UbiSoft this summer. Infestation sees you taking on all manner of alien scum across more than twenty worlds, piloting a vehicle capable of morphing between different forms, including a buggy, hovercraft and armoured truck, as well as carrying the usual array of highly destructive weaponry. For the full scoop, read our preview!

Mankind has always dreamed of reaching the stars, and yet all too often in computer games that dream turns into a nightmare. Infestation is no exception...

have posted a fairly lengthy Q&A session with Morrowind Project Leader Todd Howard, in which he discusses many aspects of this upcoming single-player RPG. Morrowind is the third game in the Elder Scroll series which has included the classic RPGs Arena and Daggerfall, and uses a brand new 3D engine which, according to Howard, should bring RPGs (which have traditionally lagged behind action games in terms of graphics technology) right up to date with the latest shoot'em'up releases.

Tribes 2 - which, you may recall, was actually initially scheduled to be released around now - has finally gone into Alpha-testing, according to Dave "QIX" Georgeson, Senior Producer on the project. Posting on the Tribalwar.com messageboards, Georgeson mentioned that like all Alpha versions, the current build is slow and contains many placeholders, but he seems confident that most issues can be dealt with quickly and that a Beta-test program will be announced within the next few weeks.

Today's review here on EuroGamer takes a look at Rising Sun, the latest turn-based strategy from Talonsoft. Set in the Pacific during World War Two, can it live up to the promise of its subject manner, or is it just another slow paced and badly produced strategy game? Read our review to find out if its worth your Yen, or if you would be better off leaving it to fester in a rice paddy somewhere in south east asia...

Today's visual treat here on EuroGamer is another batch of eight exclusive new shots from "X-Tension", the massive add-on for last year's space trading and combat game, "X : Beyond The Frontier". If you missed the first eight shots, you can find them here. Look for a full preview of the game here on EuroGamer within the next week.

Mankind has an undeniable fascination with war. We watch images of unfolding conflicts, on the one hand clucking sympathetically about the suffering of the people on the ground, while inside we thrill at every deep boom of the heavy artillery, and shiver with excitement at the sharp cracking of assault rifles.

According to Victor "Makaveli" Cuadra, who was runner-up in the massive $100,000 Razer-CPL Quake 3 tournament in Dallas back in April, "the biggest obstacle [to the growth of pro-gaming] is getting the general public to except it as a sport. Even now when I think about that I won $20,000 from playing Quake it just blows my mind. I think its quite funny that I made this much from it."

Fragpipe reviews the Insomniax mod for Starsiege Tribes

With as many as 19 million viewers in the UK alone, and the show's format now licensed by TV companies in 77 other countries, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" has to be one of the most popular quiz shows on Earth at the moment. Now Eidos and Hothouse Creations are bringing the show to PC, Playstation and Dreamcast, with the PC version due out in September. Featuring over 1000 questions, multiplayer support and of course the vocal "talents" of show host Chris Tarrant, Eidos are describing it as "the ultimate challenge in interactive gaming". For the full story and some screenshots of what the game will look like, read the press release.

The massively popular online resource strategy game Planetarion has restarted and moved from beta. The full game shows some changes from the massive beta, such as the ability to set yourself as being away, on Vaction mode. This means that your planet is on pause. While in vacation mode you cannot log into this account for the first 72 hours. You do not gather metal of move ships for that time, with the bonus that no one can attack you during that time either.

It seem that every new title that we see these days is built on one of the big name 3rd party engines, be that Unreal, Quake 3 or LithTech. The name in that list that many people don't know about is the LithTech engine by Monolith. Jason Hall is the CEO of Lithtech owners, Monolith A core part of his job is making sure future games based on its Lithtech engine are titles that do the engine justice, "Monolith has learned many lessons from the past and has been working very hard to make sure that all of its products are completely bug free no matter what"

Diakatana was the most talked about game in PC games history. From the moment Quake co-founder John Romero got his hands on massive amounts of Venture Capital to form his new company, to the numerous times the game slipped and missed deadlines. There were few games spoken about more, be the reasons good or bad. When the game finally came earlier this year, the reviews were mixed to say the least. Planet Daikatana have gotten the first actual interview with Romero since the games release.

With the recent boom in internet gaming, it's perhaps no surprise that Microsoft have seen fit to overhaul "DirectPlay" for the new version of their DirectX API.

Your visual treat today here at EuroGamer is a gallery of eight exclusive new screenshots of "KISS : Psycho Circus", a first person shooter based on the comic book series of the same name by Todd McFarlane Productions, which in turn is inspired by ageing heavy metal merchants KISS. The shots are taken from a review copy of the game which we received from publisher Take 2 Interactive recently, so look for more screenshots followed by a full review of the game over the next week or two.

In what is looking like an Olympic 1500 meters race with all the jostling and maneuvering the race to buy Eidos looks set to have moved to another level. There are several big names in the race to sign the ailing games giant. Infogrames continues to look like the frontrunner in the race, despite its own reported financial troubles. The Financial Times reports the French software publisher is pressing ahead with plans to acquire the parent firm of Lara Croft and publishers of Championship Manager, saying a $1.06 billion dollar offer has reached the final stage of talks and could be completed within weeks (though talks could still fall through over several issues). It has been reported across the internet that UbiSoft has apparently entered the bidding, though that company's bid has not been discovered. The company refuses to confirm such a bit at this time.

One of the hot topics in the world of on-line games in recient times surrounds Valve's desision to test the netcode for Team Fortress 2 with the latest Half Life patch. Half Life, and its various modifacications is by some way indeed the biggest game in the internet. Even on an average night the Team Fortress 1.5 and Counter Strike mods combined have more players playing than most other games combined. The fact that everyone knew this, and players generally play for several hours at a time, on every platform, with every type of net connection gives Valve a perfect testing platform for their next title. GameSurge have sat down with Yahn Bernier, senior software engineer, and mister netcode at Valve.

For all the talk of graphics cards and processors these days you tend to forget the dear old sound card. Its very easy to get thrown into a pile of talk about Full Screen Anti Aliasing and Texture mapping, and how many polygons it can process, or what its stats for floating point calculations are. A factor that can be easily forgotten in the games world is the place of sound. Its no mistake that when I see some get their head chopped off in the movie Gladiator I got this urge to shout 'Headshot!', like they do in Unreal Tournament. Just like in the movies, sound is something that can be forgotten, but if it is done badly it will have people staying away in droves.

New today on EuroGamer is a batch of eight new screenshots of dungeon crawling RPG "Icewind Dale", taken from a preview version of the game. The game is due for release later this month, and we'll be bringing you more screenshots of the game before then.

It never ceases to amaze me how people become celebrities in this industry, just because they work on a high profile project, or for a high profile company. A project with good PR can both make the project a success, but ensure the success of the people working on it. Often the level of their skill is not a question. This train of thought can be tracked to people who work for iD software. I know who Robert Duffy is, I know what he does, only because he works for iD. I don't like most of the projects he has worked on, yet I still would see him as a big figure in the Games Industry. GameSpy have a chat with mister Duffy today that tackles all manner of subjects, none of which touching what Duffy or iD are up to these days, or the whole Paul Steed issue.

The 1998 science fiction movie "Soldier" was hardly Kurt Russell's biggest hit, and was roundly panned by critics and movie fans alike. So why, two years on, are Southpeak Interactive making a computer game based on the film? We got our hands on a beta version of the game to find out more...