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It's known as the most prestigious of footballing tournaments. The competition to end all competitions. The silverware that every professional club aspires to. The league of champions. The glory and the glitz, the making or breaking of a football team's season. I give you .. the UEFA Champions League!

Our Razer-CPL coverage continues here on EuroGamer, with an interview with one of American's top players, Makaveli. We've also started up Friday's photo gallery with a few pics from this morning, and posted scores for today's qualifier free-for-alls.

If you're thinking that GT2 is going to be a vastly different game to it's predecessor, you'll be sadly mistaken. Basically, it's more of the same, with the onus firmly on not fixing that which isn't broken. One of the main differences between the two is the sheer volume of cars available for selection. Whereas GT gave you something like 250 cars, GT2 gives you a whopping 600! The sheer variety of makes and models is incredible, with a total of 33 manufacturers included. 19 of these are European, an area decidedly lacking in GT. GT2 also has a bigger assortment of tracks to hurtle round. There are 20 normal, and 6 dirt tracks. The dirt tracks really are a great addition to the road based tracks we're used to. You will need to choose the proper wheel type for rallying, or just to look cool in replays! This is done from the wheel selection screen, another new feature. A total of nine wheel manufacturers are present. The most notable of the game improvements though, has to be the inclusion of car damage. Collisions and scrapes now have a knock-on effect to your vehicle's performance. This means you can no longer simply rush a corner, knocking the other cars out of the way. Darn!

It's now Friday here in Dallas, and in just over an hour the remaining qualifier free-for-all matches will get underway. The results for all fifteen qualifiers from yesterday are now online, and we've also added several more pics to our photo gallery. Finally there is an introduction to Friday's action, with scores, interviews and match reports coming later today - stay tuned for more!

's Brian Raffel made a short .plan update today. You may find it interesting...

Our Razer-CPL coverage continues with an interview with DOOMer of Swedish super-team "Clan 9". We chatted to him about their chances in the tournament and the big Scandinavian contingent at the Razer-CPL event, as well as Xenon and Hakeem's practice (or lack thereof) for the big tournament. For the full scoop, read the interview now!

As part of our on-going coverage of the Razer-CPL tournament, we've now posted a short interview with Blokey, the winner of the official Razer-CPL UK qualifier in London a few weeks back. We chatted to him about his chances this weekend, the lack of other British players at the event, and the state of the UK Quake 3 scene.

The latest news over on the CPL website is that Russian Razer-CPL representative Pele has been denied a visa to attend the event!

Our live coverage of the massive Razer-CPL Quake 3 tournament in Dallas continues, with a look at the venue and the way the tournament is going to run now up, adding to our pre-tourney build-up, which yesterday looked at some of the key competitors who will be taking part in this $100,000 event.

With Asheron's Call due for release tomorrow in the UK, EuroGamer has posted its full review of the game. With so many massively multiplayer fantasy RPGs either already released or in the works, has Asheron's Call got what it takes to stand out from the growing crowd? Read our review to find out!

Massively multiplayer RPGs are all the rage these days, with a veritable flood of them currently in development. Asheron's Call is the latest to arrive in this God-forsaken land (aka England), having proven to be a big success in the USA over the last few months.

, Massive Entertainment and WON.net have announced that they are looking for 1,000 beta testers for the upcoming 3D action real-time strategy game, Ground Control which is scheduled for a summer release. They will be selecting beta testers based on:

The official Counter-Strike website have been updated with some very interesting news, it has now been officially announced that the Counter-Strike Team and Valve Software are from now partners, so we can expect some good things for this very popular Half-Life mod soon. Head on over to the Counter-Strike website for the official announcement.

The official Quake 3 Fortress mod website have been updated with some information about the upcoming patch (or 'update' as it is called as well) for the previous beta they released. This update includes a large number of bug fixes and game-play tweaks, plus some new sounds and a complete documentation overhaul (including custom CFGs). It should address a large number of the current issues, and make the whole experience of playing and running Q3F even better. This update will be released on Saturday 15th April at around 12 Midnight.

Two new patches have been released and you can as usual grab them from 3D Files:

New today on EuroGamer is our review of "Invictus : In The Shadow Of Olympus", a voxellated real time strategy / role playing game hybrid loosely based on Greek mythology. Is it a match made in heaven, or a torture worthy of inflicting on Tantalus? Read our review to find out!

Invictus is (rather loosely) based on ancient Greek mythology - the goddess Athena has returned from mentoring Odysseus, who went on to kill Poseidon's son on his way home from the Trojan war. Poseidon is none too pleased, and dismisses the whole thing as a fluke.

With hundreds of players taking part and $100,000 of cash prizes to win, the Razer-CPL event in Dallas, Texas is the biggest pro-gaming tournament ever held, and of course EuroGamer will be there covering the event! To kick things off we have posted our pre-tourney build-up, with a look at the main competitors who are likely to walk home with the big prizes this weekend.

The Gamer's Press have posted a walkthrough to Looking Glass Studios' recently released adventure game, Thief 2: The Metal Age. This walkthrough goes up to mission 3, so expect some more installments soon, there's a few general Thief 2 tips as well.

The Soldier of Fortune Center have posted the tenth installment of their weekly designer's diary written by Keith Fuller, programmer at Raven Software. In this installment Keith talks about his introduction to the Soldier of Fortune project and how he started out, it's a good read so be sure to check it out.

Creature Labs, the company behind the "Creatures" series of games and a forthcoming title about the Abominable Snowman, have added to their already bizarre repertoire with a game based on .. sea monkeys. For those of us thankfully too young to remember sea monkeys, they were apparently dehydrated packs brine shrimps that came to life when you added water to them.

Do you even care what the plot was in a game like Doom, or Quake? I never did, I just played them, but Infogrames evidently don't subscribe to the school of forgettable storylines - instead they've practically written a book about Slave Zero! Megacity lives atop a ruined Beijing, 500 years into the future, and is made up of "decks", the lower ones being the residential areas, the middle ones being military in focus and there are plenty of other areas, including laboratories and sewers, all of which you'll see during the game. The game is based around a mission structure, of which there are 15, set all over the city. You're guided by a "controller", who explains to you what's to be done and such. Controlling your mech in the PC version would be very simple indeed, using the time-honoured (and now well-established) combination of mouse and keyboard. On the Dreamcast that sort of combo is of course feasible with the right peripherals, but the mouse doesn't yet exist and Slave Zero doesn't support the keyboard anyway. The controller must therefore be used to handle the game, and it must be said that it's a smidgeon less than intuitive, especially for perpetual first person gamers. Thankfully a little perseverance soon gets you going and the game is easy enough after a while.

I noticed over at VE that Ellipse Studios has finally released a playable demo of their upcoming real-time strategy game, Submarine Titans. The demo weighs in at hefty 65.9 megs and there are no mirrors available as of yet, so you will have to grab the file from the official website. Here is a list things available in the demo:

The CPL has officially launched its new website CPL-Europe, an off-shoot of the American concern based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their first event has now been officially announced, confirming what many of us knew already - the tournament will be held at an as-yet unannounced venue in Stockholm, Sweden this summer, with $25,000 worth of cash prizes up for grabs.

Our coverage of yesterday's PC Gamer Championships Unreal Tournament event in Nottingham continues today, with brief match reports on the quarter final games, as well as full details of the semi-finals and final. Photographs and the rest of the scores from the third round should follow soon, so stay tuned!

Due to a server move, the EuroGamer website is scheduled to be down from midnight British Summer Time for a maximum of 6 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience.

We've now added some visual aids to our exclusive coverage of yesterday's massive Unreal Tournament competition in Nottingham. There's also a huge photo gallery page at the end of the coverage now, with another dozen photos of the action, both at the bar and in the arena! Well worth a look, for comedy value if nothing else.

The first beta of the Quake3 Jailbreak has been released to the public and it weighs in at 38 megs. Jailbreak is a Teamplay MOD for Quake 3 Arena. A game of jailbreak consists of two teams, Blue and Red. When killed, you are transported to the enemies jail. While in jail, fellow teammates can free you by hitting the release trigger, or you can work together and use an escape hole located inside of the jail to gain your freedom. Once a team has all opponets in jail they are Executed, this being your ultimate goal. Windows users can download the setup file (38 mb), non-windows users can get the JB pk3 file (37 mb), just stick it in quake3/jailbreak/. There is also a server.cfg file if you want to run a dedicated server.

We now have the pre-event build-up and the first and second round scores online from the PC Gamer Championships here in Nottingham. The third round is about to start and more results will follow later today, with full match reports of the final duel games coming tomorrow. Stay tuned for all the latest!