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More interview goodness today, this time it's Sharky Extreme that have conducted an interview with Kenn Hoekstra of Raven Software on the topic of their upcoming Quake III engine powered game, Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. Among the topics discussed are NPC's, weapons, the plot and a bunch of other interesting stuff.

Daily Radar have interviewed Tom Putzki designer at Piranha Bytes, the developers of the upcoming Action/RPG, Gothic. They discuss basically every aspect of this game such as the plot, AI and NPC's, be sure to read it for some tasty information regarding this game.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Battlezone 2, the action-strategy game from Activision. The last Battlezone was bundled with almost every graphics card known to man, so it's no surprise that the sequel looks gorgeous as well. But does it have the gameplay to back it up? Read our review to find out!

What a difference an alien attack makes! The USA and Russia have forever tiptoed their way around each other, knowing that the slightest unrest on either side could cause a world war catastrophe.

The catchily titled Anarchy Online Vault has launched, with all the usual news and features you would expect from the Vault Network. To kick things off they have a developer's journal from the game's producer, Tommy Strand.

Telefragged sends word that Pete 'meat' Parisi, who is now working on The World Is Not Enough, has released his second Quake 3 map pack on his site BadMeat

No, the almighty Himself has not been bought out by Take 2 Interactive, we're talking about the Gathering Of Developers here. The two companies have been working together for a couple of years, and Take 2 have now cemented the deal by buying the 80.1% of GOD that they didn't already own. For the full story, read the press release.

The lucky chaps at EliteForce.net have gotten their hands on an exclusive movie showing two minutes of footage from Raven Software's upcoming Quake III engine powered game, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force game. Grab this movie from 3D Downloads, it's a 17.4Mb download but it is worth every second.

New today on EuroGamer is "Gaming Can Seriously Damage Your Health", a tongue-in-cheek look at how playing computer games can be bad for you, taking in repetitive strain injuries, Pokemon fever and computer rage along the way. Is your machine trying to kill you? Read our article to find out the truth!

Much has been made recently of the supposed links between real-life violence and violent computer games, but being killed by a BFG wielding maniac is not the only danger that faces gamers today.

John sends word that GA-Strategy recently spoke to Sacrifice's Art Director Joby Otero to learn more about the powerful spells in this ambitious strategy title from Shiny Entertainment. They have also gotten their hands on two brand new screenshots from this game. Sacrifice will be shown for the first time at E3 and it is expected to be released this winter.

I spotted over at VE that the chaps at Wagz.net have conducted an interview with Tom "Paradox" Mustaine and Mark Dochtermann of Ritual Entertainment on the topic of their upcoming third-person action game, Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2. This interview is mostly related to F.A.K.K.2 but there's a little blurb on Ritual's upcoming Blair Witch game.

Our friends at Cached have got together with Teamplay.net to run a 2 vs 2 Quake 3 tournament. For the full scoop, check this page.

Randy from I.am/TFC informed me that the site has been massively updated with 104 new Team Fortress Classic maps to the download section, now there are 326 TFC maps available for download. There are also 59 new training demos available for download, including 42 new speed-run demos and 17 new special-technique demos. As usual, the demos show off the skill and style of the world's best TFC players (and the world's fastest TFC flag-runners) as they compete for the top positions -- there's no better way to learn advanced TFC tactics than by watching the experts in action.

New today on EuroGamer is our preview of "KISS : Psycho Circus" from Third Law Interactive, a first person shooter based on the comic book of the same name by Todd McFarlane Productions. The preview is based on what I saw of the game when I visited Third Law's offices in Dallas a couple of weeks ago, and includes two exclusive new screenshots of the game in action and some photographs of Third Law and their offices.

Dallas is the birthplace of the first person shooter, so while I was in the area to cover the big $100,000 Razer-CPL Quake 3 tournament, I dropped by a couple of the companies based in the area.

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The seemingly never-ending gaming violence debate continues, this time with a short article on FEED Magazine talking about the recent collapse of a court case against several computer games developers and publishers, the Razer-CPL tournament, and the proverbial more.

I saw over at VE that Raven Software's lead programmer, Rick Johnson made a post to the official Soldier of Fortune messageboard with some information on the upcoming Soldier of Fortune 1.05 patch. This patch will fix and add a bunch of new stuff, such as a "pure" server option which have been requested by a lot of fans. There's no official word on the release date as of yet, stay tuned for that.

The first version of the realistic Half-Life mod Firearms has finally been released to the public, for both Windows and Linux users. Half-Life: Firearms contains 27 new realistic weapons, new textures/sounds/skins/models/graphics/animations, for a full list of what this mod contains visit the official website. There's a bunch of mirrors available for you to grab this mod (26 Mb) from:

PlanetFortress has slapped up some information on the next version of Team Fortress Classic for Half-Life, which was revealed in the latest issue of PC Gamer magazine.

The ubiquitous GameSpy Industries have launched yet another new site, this time PlanetAllegiance, which (as you may have guessed) covers Microsoft's online space action-strategy game, Allegiance. Launch features include a pilot's guide and command guide for the game, and a report on Microsoft's "Fanstock 2000" event.

Shiny Entertainment have finally launched their official Sacrifice website which contains information about the game and the characters, there's a bunch of screenshots available on the website as well. Sacrifice will be shown officially for the first time at E3 in Los Angeles May 11-13, 2000.

Boasting all the popular features that made the PC version click, and a brand new graphical interface for the Playstation version, the question arises as to what Empire have been up to for two years. Surely collating team/player statistics and designing a new interface haven't dominated them for that long? Time will tell I suppose. ICC2000 basically allows players to take control of any one of England's county teams, handling the day-to-day running of the club - including aspects such as training, transfers and match tactics. The ultimate goal is the coveted County Championship, or one of the other major competitions, such as the National League and The Natwest Trophy. With plenty of sponsorship and support, it's definitely laden with authenticity and that may be enough to endear it to some cricket fans. One of the reasons that ICC2000 seems to have taken so long is the fact that Empire were aiming to have it ready for the start of the professional cricket season, which is very soon to start. Perhaps they missed 1999 and decided to tide it over until now? Whatever, the game has been developed into what Empire call "the most realistic, authoritative and detailed cricket management game ever".

As expected, today saw the UK release of "Everquest : Ruins of Kunark", "Starlancer" and "Allegiance" - thanks as usual to Nemesis for confirming those.

For those of you looking for the special "Area 15 NVIDIA Bunker" map for Quake 3 that we mentioned in our GeForce 2 GTS preview yesterday, the map is now available here over on Stomped, having failed to turn up on NVIDIA's website as we had been told it would. For those of you who missed our preview, this map is an ultra-high detail level designed to show off the enhanced T&L capabilities of the new GeForce 2 GTS.

Our latest affiliate here at EuroGamer, The CPL, dropped us a line to let us know they've posted the text of several articles about their massive Razer-CPL Quake 3 tournament that appeared in various newspapers, from The Dallas Morning News to Britain's own Sunday Times and even India's "The Statesman"! For the full skinny, check the CPL website.

When I first unwrapped JoJo's Bizarre Adventure last week, I was a bit bemused as to what the heck it was, or what the hell it consisted of. While testing the game for the first time, I discovered that it actually consisted of not two games, but one! The first game is called "JoJo no Kimyouna Bouken" and its sequel "Miraihe no Isan" (actually "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" and "Heritage for the Future" in English). The original did see some exposure in the West, in American arcades at least, although I wouldn't blame you for having missed it - I hadn't a bloody clue what it was about either! Ironically, the first, which gives the game its catchy title, is the one which you'll play the least. The moves and characters in Heritage are the same as the original, and so is the Story Mode, so in essence playing the sequel is about all you'll end up doing - the choice is a welcome bonus though.

Army Men is a squad level strategy game which gives you control of Sarge, a little green plastic army man, and lets you lead up to 20 or so infantry and a few vehicles. In theory. On the whole you just run around doing the job for yourself, because the men can't be easily controlled.

There's been a big update to our UK release date list, with new information from THQ, Mattel, and Take 2 Interactive. Several new games have been added to the list (including Flying Heroes, Lemmings Revolution, and Dogs of War) and most of their games which we were already tracking have slipped (including Earth 2150 and the X : Beyond The Frontier mission pack). For the full scoop, check our UK release date list!