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Today's review here on EuroGamer takes a look at Croc 2, a Playstation platform game that has made the migration to the PC courtesy of Fox Interactive and Argonaut. Is it just another Mario wannabe, or is it worth a look? What the heck is OmniPlay? Are the graphics up to scratch, or is this yet another dodgy console port? For the answer to all these questions and more, read our review!

There seems to be a growing number of console to PC conversions happening these days, and Croc 2 is the latest of this gaggle of games. And so now it's time for us to find out why over a million Playstation owners got in a fuss about their very own Mario 64 clone...

is a new site featuring stories and poems inspired by computer games and written by gamers. For those of you missing the old days of Quake haiku, here's a sample of the lost art from GLC -

Barrysworld's Quake III European Championship kicks off this weekend, with the first matches in this Europe-wide Quake 3 Arena teamplay tournament. The 27 countries represented, from Ireland to the Ukraine and Iceland to Cyprus, are split between six qualifier groups and will fight it out online over the next couple of months, with the winners from each group and two runners-up taking part in the LAN-based finals in London this September. For more information, check the European Championship website.

A demo version of 3D accelerated online game Clusterball has been released by Daydream Software. Clusterball is billed as a "future sport" which sees you flying around grabbing balls and dragging chains of them through goal rings to score, while fighting off your opponents. It certainly looks interesting, and the demo should keep you amused until the game is released on July 17th. To find out more, check the Clusterball website.

PlanetVampire have posted a guide to using Embrace, the level editor for Vampire

There are still a dozen places left for EuroGamer's EuroLAN #2 LAN party, taking place in Brighton, England on the weekend of July 15th - 16th. The party will now include an Unreal Tournament duel tournament, as well as the Quake 2 Lithium, Quake 3 and Counter-Strike tournaments we have already announced. Prizes include Thunderbird CPUs and motherboards courtesy of AMD, who are also providing 1GHz processors to power our servers.

Last week EuroGamer's John "Gestalt" Bye was one of a handful of journalists let into Microsoft's Windows Game Developers Conference at the Hilton Metropol in London, and over the next few weeks we will be bringing you a series of articles about the next version of DirectX.

UbiSoft sent word that the official website for Deep Fighter has been launched. The game, developed by Britsoft company Criterion Studios, is described by them as a "shooter-puzzler" which takes you to the bottom of the ocean for some deep sea action. Full details on the game, including screenshots, videos, music samples and a "making of" section, can all be found on the new Deep Fighter website.

You might be mistaken for thinking that the PC was dead as a gaming platform, given some of the comments that have been coming out of the gaming industry recently. Far from it, says Microsoft. But then, they would, wouldn't they?

It's interesting how a games company goes about making its money, the routes and angles it takes to make that few quid to get that new Ferrari you've been looking at. One of the big ways, that Joe Punter on the street would not realize, that letting someone else use, or licensing your game engine. The engine is the core code behind the game. Its interesting to hear that id Software make more money out of their engine licensing than they do from making actual games, licensing a game engine is by no means cheap! Some of the top games on the market use the engines from different games, Half Life uses a cross between the Quake 1 and Quake 2 engines, Soldier of Fortune uses the Quake 2 engine.

It is well documented about how much I loved the original Tribes , and indeed about how anxiously I await Tribes 2. It looks to be every bit a worthy successor to the original classic. The lucky lads over at Tribes 2 Players got to have a sit down with Mark Frohnmayer, Lead Programmer on the TRIBES 2 Dev Team. They speak about network code, one of the original tribes strongest features, and the making and breaking of a game like Tribes 2.

Processors come think and fast these days, every few months we can one that's faster, or bigger, or one with 'go faster stripes'. No sooner had AMD finished gloating about their 1ghz Athlon and we started hearing about this Duron, the chip that is supposed to knock the celery for six. Intel come back with the wonderfully titles Pentium 4, let alone the current battle for you wallet, raging as I type The folks at Gotapex are as confused as you and I about this processor battle and have posted a Guide to Deciding Which processor Solution is Right for You.

As promised, I'm slowly ploughing through the CPL demos from yesterday - I have just posted the Quater Final demos. As before, check our CPL index page and click on the match you want to see. Where available, there are demos from both perspectives, but there seems to be a small handful of demos missing. They may just be incorrecly named, so I will work through them and post them throughout today and tomorrow.

-yawn- I'm blind in one eye, and can't see out of the other, but I have some more demos for y'all. I've now added all 3 semi-final matches, as well as the Finals of the Lower bracket. Check our CPL index page and click on the match you want to see. I've added links to the end of the match summary for each game. I will add the Quater Finals and Third round matches in the morning, and slowly work backwards to the Free For Alls. So if the demo you want to see isn't available, check back soon.

Your roving reporter Gestalt is now safely back home in Leicester, and full match reports on all of the final and grand final matches, as well as several of the semi and quarter final games, are now online here at EuroGamer. These are in addition to the results and match reports from the first three rounds which we posted earlier in the day live from London. For a full listing of our coverage from this weeked, check the index page.

It's taken forever to assemble (cheers Spizzy) but we have the full set of demos from today's Euro-CPL qualifier event. BUT, due to a minor admin error (cheers Spizzy), many of the 200-odd demos have spaces in their window-long-filenames, which Quake3 can't handle. So just for tonight we bring you the Blokey vs Timber Final: Match 1 (556k), and Match 2 (510k). Tomorrow, some lucky person will sift through and replace all the spaces with underscores [well volunteered Geoff! - Ed]. It's been a long day, so please be patient.

After another tight final match, Timber walks away with the prize money and berth into the Stockholm tournament; the final score 8 : 6. Both players played to the full extent of their abilities, but suffering from a few awkward respawns, Blokey never looked like taking the lead. With a few frags in the final minute, Timber often waited the full ten seconds to spawn again, quite fearful of Blokey's wrath. Nonetheless, he was the better player. Congratulations on a great performance, Timber! Our coverage will be up very soon and demos will be up within an hour or two. Eurogamer - number one for live event coverage!

In breaking news, the Euro CPL qualifier is turning out to be just as nerve-wracking as the Euro 2000 final. Having beaten Timber into the Loser's Bracket already, Blokey came up against the Clan 9 member again - if Blokey wins, he wins. However, the game has just finished 15-5, meaning this is the Golden Goal of matches. Whoever wins this walks away with £500 and a paid flight out to Stockholm of the "Scandanavian Open". Stay tuned...

The first round of finals here at the CPL-Europe qualifier in London are now over, with Blokey defeating Timber 5 : 4 in a very close match as they went into extra time in the winners bracket. Meanwhile in the losers bracket, Luke beat Requiem 18 : 12. Timber will now play Luke, with the winner of that game going on to play Blokey (again) in the grand final. And because Blokey has come through the winners bracket, whoever plays him will have to beat him twice!

The quarter finals are now taking place here at the UK qualifer for the CPL-Europe "Scandinavian Open". Full reports on the quarter final matches between Blokey and Mozilla, as well as Timber vs Veno are already up, with the semi-finals and some losers bracket matches on the way. We also have full results and more reports on matches from the first three rounds online - check the index page for a full list of our coverage so far.

Our coverage of the UK qualifier for the CPL-Europe "Scandinavian Open" continues here on EuroGamer, with full results and a selection of short match reports now up for the first and second rounds, as well as some results from the third round (which is still underway) and a write-up of Timber's match against Sky. For all the latest coverage, check the index page.

Thanks as usual to event organisers The Playing Fields.

In case you haven't been keeping track, our coverage of the Euro CPL Qualifiers at TPF in London is continuing. Full reports on the seeding rounds and the first round proper, including some particularly savage beatings at the hands of Erazer and Duellist. Our second round coverage is just kicking off, with some particularly impressive performances from Blokey and Erazer again.

Good morning! This is John Bye and Tom Bramwell reporting live from The Playing Fields in London, the location of the CPL-Europe UK qualifier, taking place throughout today. This time round we'll be bringing you blow by blow updates and match reports throughout the day, and the odd interview here and there too. Check back frequently for the latest additions to our coverage.

An old man with a bizarre name and a clichéd heritage visits our samurai-teaching hero, called (funnily enough) Hiro Miyamoto. Via in-game cutscenes the old man relays the plot and your mission - to rescue his daughter and wield the time-travelling sword known as Daikatana against some dictatorial chap.

is the first in a series of net-based games to come from Swedish developer Daydream Software. Described by them as a "wild, future sport game where several players, anywhere in the world, can connect and compete against each other", the idea of this 3D accelerated game is to fly around grabbing balls and dragging chains of them through goal rings to score.

Our coverage of tomorrow's UK qualifier for CPL-Europe's big "Scandinavian Open" has kicked off, with a look at the rules and the latest seeding groups for the qualifier, as well as our selection of some of the main competitors. We are one of only two sites with online coverage rights for the qualifier, so look for all the latest news and results live from London tomorrow, as well as our usual match reports and analysis during and after the event. EuroGamer - number one for live event coverage!

Romanian company AMC Creation have just announced that they are working on a real time strategy game called "NoNameWar". Set in the far future, the game will feature massive randomly generated maps, as many as three hundred different polygonal units, day and night cycles, weather effects, dynamic lighting, and support for up to sixteen people to play together. To find out more, check the AMC Creation website.

Friday is release day for computer games in the UK, and this week we have a bumper harvest. New releases include Dark Reign II, Diablo II, Dukes Of Hazzard, Heroes Of Might & Magic III : Shadows Of Death, Might & Magic VIII, Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball, Test Drive 6 and Vampire : The Masquerade. Thanks as usual to Nemesis for confirming those.