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Here at EuroGamer we've just posted our second batch of eight exclusive new screenshots of "Soldier", a third person shooter based on the Kurt Russell sci-fi movie of the same name. Again, the screenshots were taken at 1024x768 in 32 bit colour with full-scene anti-aliasing enabled on a GeForce 2 graphics card to give you the best possible visual quality. Expect another batch of shots next week, as well as a full hands-on preview of the game soon!

With the web-based space strategy game Planetarion finally coming out of beta on July 1st, one of the game's creators has explained the reasons for the game's combat being given an overhaul.

Quake3Mods.net reviews the Prisoners of War mod

Dan Hoecke, Director of Strategy First, has explained the idea behind their new game, Zero G Marines. "Although the team wanted to emulate the gameplay as well as the visual quality in the top FPS games, we wanted to add elements of a rich, plausible world and combat in zero gravity".

New today on EuroGamer is our review of the Voodoo 5 5500 AGP graphics card, the new flagship product from 3dfx. With two chips, 64Mb of memory, a pair of fans, and a seperate power connector to keep it all running, this is certainly one beast of a card. Can its performance live up to the hype though? Read our review to find out!

- 3dfxPrice - £250

Back when pro-gaming was first getting started, it was the PGL rather than the CPL which seemed to be dominating the growing sport. Then the company behind it switched its focus to family games and the PGL went into limbo, recently being bought out by former PGL star player Dennis "Thresh" Fong and his company GX Media.

A new version of the popular server browser "GameSpy 3D" is now available, adding support for the Sanity multiplayer beta test, as well as such great games (ahem) as Buckmasters Deer Hunting, High Impact Paintball, LaserArena, RallyMasters and Wild Wings. The new version can also integrate with ICQ to automatically set your "away" message to let your friends know where you are playing, and compresses server lists to make them download (and therefore update) quicker.

PlanetVampire has posted some tutorials on making maps for Vampire : The Masquerade using the "Embrace" level editor

The newly relaunched XSReality have posted their report on the recent CPL-Asia event in Singapore, which featured a mixture of local Asian talent and some of the top gamers from Europe and America competing in a Quake 3 duel tournament for cash prizes.

This week's interview here on EuroGamer is with Franz F Felsl of PopTop, the company behind the massive hit strategy game "Railroad Tycoon II". We talked to Franz about life at PopTop, as well as their new game Tropico, in which you play the role of the dictator of an imaginary Caribbean island stuck in the Cold War era. To find out more about the game and the company behind it, read our interview!

In our preview of the game last week, we described Tropico as looking set to be "one of the most innovative and downright fun titles of the year". But who are the brains behind this game? We spoke to Franz J Felsl of developers PopTop to find out more...

This is handy as it is a subject and a question that quite a few people have been talking about, and a few more fighting about!. 3Drage.com have posted a guide to gamers and why they might and might not want to run either/or both of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 as a gaming platform.

Explaining the problems of writing conversations for the first person RPG "Deus Ex", script writer Sheldon Pacotti commented in an interview with Speedy3D that "players are an unpredictable bunch".

Mike Crowns, Director of Product Development at Raven Software, has talked about the possibility of a sequel and/or mission pack for the company's latest first person shooter, "Soldier of Fortune", in which you play a real-life government "consultant" called John Mullins.

More information on the prizes available at the CPL's coming tournaments in Dallas is now available on the CPL website. The Frag 4 team-play event will be primarily sponsored by Heat.net, with a top prize of $8,000 (to be split between the winning four man team), with $4,000 for the runners-up and $2,000 for the third place team. There will also be a special $800 prize for the "most valuable player" - a kind of "man of the match" thing.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of The Longest Journey, a gorgeous looking adventure game which mixes pre-rendered backgrounds and real-time animated 3D models to give you the best of both worlds. Can the story, dialogue and puzzles live up to the promise of the beautiful locations and characters? Read our review to find out!

Programmer Carlos Garcia Cordero of Spanish developer Rebel Act Studios has spoken about the "toon renderer" he coded in his spare time for Blade, the third person fantasy action game that the company are currently working on.

Every now and then a game comes along that sucks you into its world so completely that you vanish into it for days at a time, surfacing only for food and sleep when you just physically can't play any longer. Last year we had Outcast to rob us of sleep and social life, and this year we have The Longest Journey.

The "Software Development Kit" for Vampire : The Masquerade is now available, allowing user-made add-ons for the RPG, which was recently released in America. You can grab it here from Vampire Vault, or here from TheMasquerade

While we are still waiting for the game to even be released here in Europe, the SDK toolkit for "Vampire : The Masquerade" is already in testing at Activision and is expected to be released by "Friday at the latest", according to this post on the message boards of developer Nihilistic.

The team behind the excellent squad action game Evolva have formed their own game development studio called Synaptic Soup. The co-founders include Vince Farquharson (lead designer), Rik Heywood (lead programmer) and Karl Wickens (lead artist), and their first project is apparently already "well under way". For the full story, read the press release!

New today on EuroGamer is our big hands-on preview of Rune, the Unreal-engined third person action game from Human Head and the Gathering Of Developers. Based on Viking mythology, this is a game of death, destruction and drinking, with the focus very much on melee combat and the cleaving of enemies in twain with dirty big axes. To find out more, read our preview!

The demo for 3D fishing game "Trophy Bass 4", which we reviewed just last week, is now available on the Trophy Bass 4 website (strangely enough). The demo, which weighs in at just 10Mb, allows you to paddle your boat around in part of Lake Marion, South Carolina.

With their rich mythology and culture, and a healthy dose of horned helmets and big axes, it's surprising that computer games featuring Vikings are so few and far between. But now Human Head and the Gathering Of Developers are looking to change all that with their Unreal engined third person action game, Rune.

As a special treat for all you action fans, we also have eight exclusive new screenshots of the third person sci-fi shooter "Soldier" here on EuroGamer today. Based on the Kurt Russell movie of the same name, the game features a heady mix of futuristic weaponry and hordes of bad guys to gun down on a planet which is piled high with rusting hulks and wrecked planes. Expect more screenshots, as well as a full preview of the game, over the next couple of weeks...

Congratulations to Ken Silverman, the programmer behind the Build engine that powered classic games like Duke Nukem 3D and Blood, as well as not-so-classic games like Redneck Rampage and Extreme Paintbrawl. Ken has just graduated from college, and to celebrate he has released the source code for the Build engine!

Muiy has posted a column over on Challenge-US about the future of pro-gaming and the CPL. One of the things he picked up on is the apparent attempt to pitch pro-gaming as an "extreme sport" in the vein of snowboarding.

Kevin Bezant of Razorworks, the company behind the "Enemy Engaged" series of helicopter sims, has described what goes into deciding on the scenarios and locations to be included in their games.

Croatian developers CroTeam recently released a test version of their over-the-top all-action first person shooter, "Serious Sam", which has been getting rave reviews from fellow developers and gamers alike. But there was always one question - why on Earth did they call it that? Well, now they have explained all...