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New today in the UK are third person squad action game Evolva, space sim Tachyon : The Fringe, and Cricket 2000 and Player Manager 2000 from EA Sports. Thanks to Nemesis for confirming those.

The Getaway takes place over 50 square kilometres of Central London, photo-realistically portrayed (see the 6 exclusive screenshots dotted around the page for details!) from Kensington Palace to the Tower of London. The player takes past in blistering car chases and road-races, but also enters buildings on-foot to commit crimes… from bank robberies to gangland hits. More than 50 real vehicles have been recreated and all are capable of car-stunts in traditional Hollywood style. From the sound of the press release, it'll be Hollywood-physics all the way, with races down narrow alleyways and tyre-burning power slides. The living, breathing city sensation will be there as well, with pedestrians and other drivers occupying the streets of London. As you can see from the screenshots, the photo-realism is absolute. It's a stunningly gorgeous game, even in this unfinished state. Each car's bodywork is authentic, with Fed Ex and BT vans among others dashing about from place to place. With this sort of authenticity, we may well see missions including knocking off a Securicor van, robbing a Post Office or what-have-you. The permissions and credits listing in the manual will be unbelievable!

Free games service WON.net UK was launched at The Playing Fields in London on Wednesday night. The site features a mix of both casual (web-based) and hardcore games, ranging from Half-Life and Homeworld to Snowcraft and Wordox, a simple but surprisingly addictive Scrabble style game. Well worth a look...

A patch for "Martian Gothic : Unification" is now available from TalonSoft. The patch (1.7Mb) improves collision detection, cut-scenes and some weapon effects, as well as featuring a whole range of other tweaks, tucks, and bug fixes.

The demo for EA Sport's latest soccer game, Euro 2000, is now available over at 3D Files, weighing in at 30Mb. The game (which was released in the UK last week) features all the national teams that took part in the Euro 2000 qualifiers, as well as 40 classic teams from down the years.

The ClanWorld Network have launched a new series of LAN parties in America under the name Red Storm Rising. These will focus on games by Tom Clancy's company, Red Storm, including Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear of course. The first event is taking place in Philadelphia in July, and sign-ups have now begun on the Red Storm Rising website.

Mark Prindle informed me that SouthPeak Interactive's upcoming PC arcade racing game, BreakNeck has gone gold and will be available in stores on June 22. BreakNeck combines the spine-crushing speed of racing simulation with the exciting use of customizable firepower. Visually stunning, BreakNeck takes players to racing circuits around the world and tests their driving expertise in all types of weather conditions.

File under "better late than never" - new today on EuroGamer is our review of Rollercoaster Tycoon, the theme park management game from Chris Sawyer and the boys at Microprose. Sure to be a hit with rollercoaster fanatics and strategy fans alike, for the full low down read our review...

Rollercoasters, essentially, are a curious concept. We go to the little ticket box (or if its a pay-at-the-gate theme park, join a queue that disappears into the horizon and quite possibly crosses a few international time zones), pay an extortionate sum, stand in a queue, caged into columns like cattle, then eventually, you reach the station, dozens of people bundle off the train and disappear out of sight ("Exit the train to your right!"), and with a sense of joy and adventure we step onto the train, and anticipate what will follow.

Massive Entertainment has finally released the demo of their anticipated upcoming 3D RTS, Ground Control which should go gold any day now. This demo weighs in at hefty 107 megs but I can assure you that it is worth the wait and while you're downloading the demo then you can take a look at the official website. Grab the demo from any of following mirrors (more mirrors will be added later):

have conducted an interview with Will Loconto, sound dude over at Thirdlaw Interactive, the developers of the upcoming LithTech engine powered first-person shooter, KISS: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child.

I noticed over at Stomped that Hypothermia have posted a couple of movies that show off the gameplay of Quake 3: Team Arena, the upcoming mission pack to id Software's Quake 3 Arena. The movies were filmed at Activision's booth at E3, where they were showing off the game.

John has let me know that GA-Strategy received a detailed explanation of what new features Dark Reign 2 will bring to the strategy genre from Pandemic Studios' Director, Greg Borrud. As a bonus there's three brand new screenshots for this upcoming RTS game which is scheduled for a late Q2 2000 release. For more details and screenshots, check out Activision's official Dark Reign 2 website.

GibQ3 is a new Quake 3 mod from the guys over at Q3Center, which rather insanely makes all the weapons fire gibs... Messy.

New today on EuroGamer is our preview of Red Faction, based on a back-room showing at E3. Red Faction is a first person shooter from Descent developers Volition, which boasts fully deformable scenery and a range of vehicles to drive around in as well as the usual on-foot action. Read our preview for the full scoop!

11th of May 2000 at the E3 expo, Los Angeles - Volition reveals their new foray into the first person shooter genre with "Red Faction". EuroGamer's Mat Bettinson investigates...

Quake3Mods.net has taken a look at some old Quake mods - the Aircraft mod and Navy Seals

For those of you who are interested in modifing the GHOUL character system in Raven Software's recently released first-person shooter, Soldier of Fortune then you can grab the entire set of 3D Studio Max files (these were released today) used for the game. These files weighs in at hefty 2.7GB (!), so they broke it up up into 4 zips, snag it from Raven's FTP.

I noticed over at Blue's News that Simon & Schuster Interactive has launched the official website for The Collective's upcoming Unreal engine powered third-person action game, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen. The website features screenshots, concept art, MP3's, videos and all the other information that you might possibly ever need.

One of the biggest assets of any games console in this day and age is its underlying graphical architecture. Many moons ago, it was a question purely of software, screenshots and format to carry the weight of the console. I bought my original Playstation on the strength of its launch titles and the fact that it was a CD-based 32bit system - and I dare say a lot of you will have as well. I had no particular interest in its graphical capabilities, nor in how they compared to rival machines. If my favourite developers and games genres weren't present, and it wasn't a next generation console, I was not going to be satisfied. The console industry has matured; gamers have matured. I no longer buy consoles based on games and graphics, I look at the big picture. If Console Y can pack more polygons to its punch than Console Z, I want to know what the real-world benefits of such a development are. Yet now that consoles seem to be converging upon a single point, technologically; the modern-day PC, the graphical capabilities, are going to carry the most weight. As such, the main consideration in purchasing a "next-generation" console should surely be its graphical processing power... In this feature, we're going to take a look at what each of the next-generation consoles is packing, graphically, and also to pick apart the various terms which may be blinding your judgement. Hopefully we'll come to some form of conclusion about who has the upper hand as well, but it may be too tight to call. Who knows, keep reading!

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Flying Heroes, a bizarre fantasy flight combat game from Take 2 Interactive (who else?). Described by our reviewer as a mix between a flight sim, Drakkan, and Quake 3 Arena, it certainly looks .. interesting. Does it live up to its promise? Read our review to find out!

Sleeper hits are an oft-underdeveloped trend in the gaming industry. In this age of press hype and the internet, games are almost totally uncovered prior to their release, and so for the most part we know all there is to know about them by the time it comes to actually buying them.

Our EuroCup coverage continues today, with interviews with tournament winners Ars Moriendi from Scandinavia, and EuroCup organisers Talita and Godsmurf from ClanBase. We also have more photographs of the event and a final wrap-up coming soon!

I was in Holland while E3 was going on over in Los Angeles, so I missed this before... So a big thanks to ZDim for sending word that Microprose have announced "Master Of Orion III", the latest in the classic turn-based space strategy series. Apparently the new game will allow up to eight players to fight over galaxies three times as large as in the last installment of the series, and combat will now be real time while the rest of the game remains turn-based.

The Dark Mistress herself, Kazi Wren of Ragnarok, has posted an update from Tim Gerristen of Rune developers Human Head, talking about the game's showing at the recent E3 trade show in Los Angeles.

Following on from last week's big feature ("Noddy's Guide To Graphics Card Jargon"), new today on EuroGamer is our "Spring 2000 Graphics Card Round-up", taking a close look at the latest cards from 3dfx, ATI and NVIDIA.

Spring has sprung, and with it has come a new generation of graphics cards from most of the major manufacturers. NVIDIA are shipping their GeForce 2, 3dfx are about to unleash the VSA-100, and ATI have announced their own effort, the Radeon 256.

PlayStation Developer: Kronos Studios Publisher:Eidos Interactive

Our full report on the exciting grand final match between Eyeballers and Ars Moriendi at the EuroCup tournament in Holland yesterday is now online! We've got the full play-by-play (or should that be "slay-by-slay"?) low-down on the acton, with our report on the first of the three games here, and the rest following over the next two pages.

With Aureal gone to the wall, Videologic have announced a partnership with Voyetra, makers of the Turtle Beach soundcards. Together they will design a new range of sound cards with six output channels, MP3 decoding acceleration, support for EAX, A3D and DirectSound 3D, and optional SPDIF ouput for those of us with MiniDisc players. For the full story, read the press release.