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The UK's monopolistic telecoms operator, British Telecom, not content with holding back the progress of online gaming and e-commerce in the UK with its over-priced and late arriving support for broadband digital connections, is now trying to stamp its unwelcome authority on the entire world wide web!

According to TJ Wagner of Microsoft, "in MechWarrior 4 you are in charge and will be making the decisions", and "for the first time, the player will experience the BattleTech universe as intended by the creators".

Starlancer Vault has mirrored SLEdit, a hog file editor for Starlancer

Operating systems - we all have to use them, but we don't get much of a choice! On the one hand, you have the mainstream but rather unstable Windows systems. But going for something that doesn't fall apart every five minutes, such as Linux or BeOS, yields even more crippling problems, such as the lack of drivers and software.

Our UK release date list has had a big update today, with all the latest information from Eidos, Empire, Fox Interactive and Microsoft amongst others being added to the list. Notable additions include Metal Gear Solid (September), Mechwarrior 4 (November), and Anachronox (Third Quarter).

A few months ago British cable TV operator NTL announced they would be introducing a completely free ISP - no monthly charges, and a free-phone number to dial into. Today I received another e-mail from the company explaining the continued delay in getting me and thousands of other people around the country on to the service after we signed up for it months ago.

Industry gossip site FatBabies reports that John Romero may soon be in the market for a new job. "Buzz has been pointing to the termination of one John Romero from the offices of Ion Storm to happen as early as Monday (hey, that's today!). Eidos has not been happy with the sales nor the overall management of the development of Daikatana. Word is Eidos' head of product development, Rob Dyer, will be dropping the axe on Romero personally".

have an interview with Ed Fries, vice president of Microsoft Games Group, and Alexander Seropian, Bungie founder and CEO about the deal over the weekend which made Bungie Software a fully owned subsidiary of the Microsoft Games Group.

Quake3Mods.net have posted a huge tutorial on designing new weapons for Quake 3 using Milkshape 3D

If you live in Europe the chances are you don't have "Vampire : The Masquerade" yet, but for all our American brothers out there The Masquerade have posted a searchable database of all 150+ weapons and 60+ pieces of armour available in the game, with full stats on all of them so you can see at a glance which works best. They also have a tips section, and a "player formats guide".

As summer finally reaches England, EuroGamer's thoughts drift to the Caribbean as we preview Tropico, a game from the makers of Railroad Tycoon II that sees you taking on the role of a dictator ruling an imaginary tropical island. SimCity meets Fidel Castro? Read our preview to find out more!

Railways. Not the most interesting of subjects for a game really, conjuring up as it does images of grown men in anoraks standing on platforms feverishly jotting down the names and numbers of passing trains. And yet Pop Top managed to turn running a railway into a highly addictive best selling strategy game, Railroad Tycoon II.

Keith Fuller has posted a detailed run-down of what is in the recently released Soldier of Fortune SDK, which includes everything you should need to make mods, maps or models for Raven's gory first person shooter. According to Keith, Raven have "included for your perusal the source code to the game dll as well as the player dll, comprising everything you'll need to handle player inventory and weapons, create your own deathmatch gameplay modes, and produce all manner of wacky conversions."

Dynamix might be better known in the hardcore gaming community for their multiplayer first person shooter Starsiege Tribes, but they also have a nice sideline in .. fishing games. We took their latest effort, "Field & Stream Trophy Bass 4", for a spin to see if it's worth hauling in, or whether you should just throw it back. To find out more, read our review!

After recently reviewing the likes of Street Fighter X2 Alpha Plus and The Devil Inside, imagine my surprise when I tore open the latest parcel from the ever-giving Eurogamer to discover .. a fishing game.

The demo for Deus Ex, the eagerly awaited first person RPG from industry veteran Warren Spector and his team at Ion Storm Austin, has been released! Weighing in at a hefty 140Mb, it features two missions (one of them the training mission) from the full game. Due to problems with Germany's censorship of violence in games, the demo will not work in German.

RPGVault have interviewed the team behind a persistent world multiplayer mod for Drakan

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, up pops some more coverage of April's massive Razer-CPL Quake 3 tournament in Dallas, Texas. First up is an article on SYNGE.com titled "Cyber Showdown in Texas".

New today on EuroGamer is an interview with Eric von Rothkirch, a level designer on "The World Is Not Enough", Electronic Arts' Quake 3 engined game based on the latest Bond movie. We talked to Eric about his experience in the Quake 2 mod community and how he got hired by EA, as well as what it's like working with the Quake 3 engine and the lucrative Bond franchise. For the full story, read our interview!

Electronic Arts' sinister plans for global domination of the world's computer gaming industry are enough to put Blofeld or SPECTRE to shame, and so it took a special kind of man to infiltrate their top secret underground bunker in California and survive to tell the tale. The name's Bye, John Bye.

Disappointed with the performance of your favourite team in the Euro 2000 soccer tournament? Now you too can jump into the shoes of Kevin Keegan or Frank Rijkaard! Sports Interactive have announced a deal with the Daily Express, which has resulted in the creation of a web-based version of their multi-million selling Championship Manager games specially for Euro 2000.

Friday is computer game release day in the UK, and today's bounty includes 3D strategy games "Shogun : Total War" and "Ground Control", as well as "F1 World Grand Prix" and "Open Tennis 2000" for the sports fans out there. Thanks to Nemesis for confirming those.

After delays earlier in the week, registrations for the CPL's next big events in Dallas, Texas are now open. The teamplay oriented Frag 4 will be taking place at the end of September, while the big $100,000 Babbages CPL event with its now traditional Quake 3 duel tournament will be in December. Check the CPL website for the full details.

John Scott of Raven Software, the company behind Soldier of Fortune and the Heretic and Hexen games, has given an incite into what goes on behind the scenes in the gaming industry, describing the final weeks of a game's development...

After our successful debut event back at the beginning of April, EuroLAN returns this summer! Our second event will take place from 15th-16th July, and will again be at Varndean College in Brighton. Counter-Strike, Quake 3 duel and Quake 2 Lithium competitions are already lined up, and once again we will have half price pizzas from Domino's throughout the weekend!

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Cryo's bizarre third person zombie shooter, Devil Inside. Master-minded by Hubert Chardot, the brains behind the Alone In The Dark series, is this game the Evil Dead of the genre, or a Flesh Eating Zombies From Mars? Read our review to find out!

- Cryo Interactive

has gotten some notoriety for himself as he is the person who answers the questions and does the 'dirty' media work on behalf of the much in demand CS dev team. He also handles 2d graphics, sound effects, game design and other such things in the worlds most popular on-line game, Counter Strike mod for Half Life.

Gamespot UK have an interview with Daniel Vavra, the game designer of the interesting sounding Mafia. He goes into what makes a game such as this, and how they narrowly missed the trap of this being yet another first person shooter, and what they are doing differently

Our sandal wearing, tree hugging and Linux using brothers and sisters have always been deprived in the area of games. While we play Counter Strike or Championship Manager they have to make do with second rate Pong clones. Slowly but surely games are starting to work, and linux people can spend less time hacking kernels and more time fragging.