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One of the biggest hit movies of last year was The Blair Witch Project, a spooky ultra-low budget horror movie that followed a group of young people running around in a wood with camcorders screaming their heads off.

The first game to really take away any pretence to a life I had was the original Tribes. I therefore look with hope on Tribes 2 that it may erase the faults of the original and build upon its good points. Well Ga-Source have an article looking at the changes that are being made, by way of an interview with Tribes 2 Writer Blake Hutchins.

Its not often a humble promotional movie makes it into the news here at Eurogamer but this one is amazing. I have been a fan of Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix series for some time, and have been awaiting his new title Grand Prix 3 for some time. Well to be honest it looks great, the screen shots that have been released for GP3 have been amazing. Some of them have looked like they were almost real life race shots.

The American print magazine PC Gamer has published an interview with Mike Stemmle and Sean Clark, the project leaders of Escape from Monkey Island. The interview contains some new information, for example that the game contains about 60 speaking characters. Well a scan of the interview has appeared and it makes for top reading for us Monkey Island fans.

The world of the action based RPG is a competitive one. A few months back mega developers Westwood raised the stakes a notch or two with its release of Nox. One of the areas that the game had fallen down, and taken some criticism over though was in its lack of any cooperative gaming feature.

Full details of the UK qualifier for the first CPL-Europe Quake 3 tournament, the "Scandinavian Open", are now available. The qualifier is taking place on July 2nd at The Playing Fields in London, with £1000 in cash prizes up for grabs, and the winner will also get a free flight to Stockholm to take part in CPL-Europe's $25,000 tournament in August.

Our massive UK release date list has been updated with the latest information from Electronic Arts, UbiSoft and Virgin Interactive. Three new titles are now on our list - FA Premier League Stars 2001 (August 11th), Star Trek : New Worlds (August 25th), and Baldur's Gate 2 (September 15th). We also have updated release information for several other titles, including War Torn and Dino Crisis, which have both moved to July 14th.

3DO Europe have announced that "Sammy Sosa High Heat Baseball", apparently described by PC Gamer USA as "the best baseball game ever", will be released in Europe on June 30th, priced at just £20 in the UK. The game features a whole range of single player options including practice, season and career modes, as well as letting you play over the internet or a LAN. For the full story, read the press release.

EuroGamer has a special treat for your eyes today - a dozen exclusive new screenshots of space-bound 3D strategy game, "Homeworld Cataclysm". The shots were taken using a preview version of the game and a GeForce 2 GTS graphics card, running at 1024x768 in 32 bit colour with full scene anti-aliasing enabled. For some of the most gorgeous graphics ever seen on a PC, click here!

Today's review here on EuroGamer takes a look at "Tachyon : The Fringe", a space combat sim that features more open-ended gameplay than most games of its kind, some interesting large-scale multiplayer support, and the vocal talents of Bruce Campbell, best known as Ash from the Evil Dead movies.

"Just what the heck is a Tachyon?", I hear you ask. Well, here's a brief explanation : a warp is formed in space by a Ripstar, which allows a spacecraft to fly through a faster-than-light wave.

Since the latest patch for Asheron's Call was introduced a few days ago, some of the trees in the world of Dereth have been mysteriously disappearing! It turns out that this is due to a bug though, rather than some sinister shadow plot to destroy Dereth through global warming...

Gamesurge previews the Opera mod for Half-Life, inspired by Hong Kong "blood opera" movies rather than Wagner and Bizet...

for the CPL's forthcoming American events, which was due to open today, has had to be delayed for a few days due to technical problems with their new registration system. The new plan is to begin registrations at 3pm Central Time (that's 9pm UK time, 10pm in Europe) on Thursday, and you will be able to register for both Frag 4 and the Babbages CPL event with one fell swoop. Check the CPL website for more details.

The latest and greatest of the i-series LAN parties run by Multiplay UK took place this weekend in Swindon, a town which is probably better known for its love affair with mini round-abouts than hardcore gaming...

Last weekend saw the guys from Multiplay UK taking over the "Winners Lounge" at Swindon Town football club for a massive LAN party called "i4", and I was there to cover the whole event for EuroGamer. So if you want to find out what happens when you take 350 hardcore gamers and stick them in a room together with upwards of half a million pounds worth of computer hardware, garnishing with full English breakfasts, chicken curries and copious amounts of coke and alcohol, read our report on the event - "Sleepless in Swindon"!

3dfx have announced that their flagship Voodoo 5 5500 AGP graphics card is finally available in the UK. The recommended price is £249, and it comes with a CD of game demos from GamePlay, as well as a demo version of WinDVD. For full details, read the press release, and look for a full review of the card here on EuroGamer within the next few days...

has a amusing article looking at how geeks and babes just don't mix. He takes E3 as his example, "Some of the photos that come back from E3 don't resemble a gamers fest so much as they do a fashion model conference that has been invaded by the kids from Special Ed" the author continues, "The visual contrast in these beauty and the beast shots is frightening".

I'm sure more than one of you will have noticed the problems Half Life had last night. Millions of games players were unable to play Half Life all night as WON Half-Life authorization server was failing. This morning Won have released a fix for this.

Massively multiplayer RPGs are all the rage at the moment, with a whole horde of fundamentally similar games currently under development. This weekend EuroGamer takes a look at one of the many hopeful newcomers, which is going by the name of "Neocron".

The first CPL Asia event is now over, and ironically the two grand finalists were an American and a Scandinavian! To find out who took home the $3,500 first prize, and to see how the rest of the big names fared against strong opposition from largely unknown local talent at the big Singapore tournament, check the CPL website. And in related news, the Adrenaline Vault has posted a gallery of photographs from the event.

A little known developer named Reakktor Media are the designers behind Neocron, an ever-evolving, ever-growing massively multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG) that looks set to be one of the hottest online releases of 2001.

Those guys at Trenches just don't stop. Today they have an interview with Bubba Wolford who is a Senior PR Specialist at 3Dfx Interactive. They chat about the inevitable 3dfx versus Nvidia war on at the moment,

conclude their look at piracy in games today with a look at the pirate's lair. They visit IRC channels, news groups and even chat with a former pirate, aptly named Long John Silver. He makes some interesting points, "how many times do people buy full priced software then they find they have to spend hours connected to the Net to download patches because the software is faulty? That's cheating consumers".

, the chaps behind the amazingly successful championship manager series have teamed up with SportLive to offer a unique service on the eve of the Euro 2000 finals. They have given all the players on all 16 squads championship manager like stats, to aid those out there picking fantasy football teams, or those just fighting with their mates.

The folks at trenches have an interview with Cedric "Inoxx" Fiorentino, the chap behind the INOXX map pack for Unreal Tournament. Its an interesting look into the mind of a top map designer. What he does, and indeed how he does it

take a few moments to examine the death of Looking Glass Studios, and ponder why companies like this flounder and die while others prosper. They look at how LGS took risks when others just followed scripts

With the recent arrival of the Everquest expansion pack, Ruins of Kunark, here in the UK thanks to French publisher Ubisoft, we have taken a closer look at the pack to see whether it is worth your hard-earned cash, whether you are a newcomer to the world of Norrath, or a veteran in search of new lands to explore away from the familiar crowded settings of the original game. To find out more, read our review!

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Romania is hardly a haven of game design, and that area of Eastern Europe is probably better known as the stomping grounds of Dracula and Vlad The Impaler than for its computer games...