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Microsoft officially released DirectX 7.0 last night. The new version adds support for hardware T&L acceleration, environment mapping, improved 3D sound support, and the proverbial much more.

The Grand Theft Auto 2 demo is now available! Head over to the demo downloads page on the official GTA2 website to grab yourself a copy.

Looks like my comment of "we'll be lucky to see it before next year" in our Napalm preview was spot on after all - 3dfx have just confirmed that the card won't be out until February or March.

Rumours that Freespace 2 has gone gold (as reported on Blue's News) are apparently just that .. rumours. Virgin Interactive, who are publishing the game in Europe, have told us the game is definitely not gold yet, and that the European release date is early November.

The original Battlezone was amongst the first wave of action-strategy hybrids, but despite getting rave reviews its sales were disappointing.

According to this story on The Register, Freeserve will begin testing ADSL in the UK in November. Still no word on how widespread the trial will be or when the full service will go live, but it's more good news for British gamers...

Mat Bettinson updated his column over on UKGamer at 4am last night with a short piece appropriately titled "Drunken rant". Be warned, this contains strong language and is not for the easily offended, especially Everquest fanatics...

As well as our own uber-coverage, you can also find news from the UKPCGC finals at the following places -

We've just posted our massive coverage of the UK PC Gaming Championship finals, which took place on Saturday at The Playing Fields in London.

UKPCGC - try saying that after a few beers...

According to this post on an investor's messageboard (spotted by Voodoo Extreme), 3dfx's next graphics card (code-named Napalm) might not make it out this year after all.

If you're wondering why it was so quiet yesterday, I was away at the finals of the UK PC Gaming Championships in London all day. We'll be bringing you some huuuuuuge coverage of the event on Monday, so be sure to come back soon!

The Unreal Tournament demo is out! It weighs in at around 48Mb, and this one is Glide only so you'll need a 3dfx card to play it. Here's a quick list of mirror sites we've found so far -

Paul Benjamin at Infogrames UK was kind enough to send over some exclusive screenshots of Slave Zero, their impressive looking third person giant-robot-stomping-through-a-city-blowing-shit-up game.

Looks like the hurricane (and some bugs) did hold up the Unreal Tournament demo release after all. Let's look on the bright side though, downloading the demo Friday night - Saturday morning is going to be cheaper (in the UK at least) than trying to do it during the week...

An Unreal Tournament mailing list has been set by Mat Bettinson at UKgamer for discussion of the great game! Send an e-mail to mdaemon@mats.net with subscribe utuk in the message body to subscribe!

And Europe.HEAT.net isn't alone - Sierra's WON.net announced the opening of its first European portal yesterday, as well as unveiling its new website design and a partnership with Activision.

was launched at The Playing Fields last night, and of course the EuroGamer team were there. No doubt lured by the promise of free booze and the chance to play Q3Test over TPF's network...

Bad news for non-3dfx owners - although the Glide version should be released as expected later today, the full demo version of Unreal Tournament might be delayed for a few days by Hurricane Floyd!

The London gaming cafe, The Playing Fields have posted some announcements on their site:

Epic have confirmed that the Unreal Tournament demo will be out tomorrow, Thursday September 16th!

This week's EuroGamer preview takes a look at 3dfx's next graphics card, code-named "Napalm". We take a layman's look at 3dfx's newly announced FXT1 texture compression system, their decision to make it open source, what this means for the future, and of course the T-Buffer effects. For the full scoop, read on...

3dfx still don't have a real sample of their next graphics card (code-named "Napalm") to show us, but that didn't stop them announcing another of the card's key technologies at this year's ECTS.

Completing our coverage of this year's ECTS, we've just posted our ECTS '99 Wrap Up. This takes a look at the show, its highs and lows, and how it compares to last year's event.

ECTS is over for another year, and the whole circus has packed up and gone home. As EuroGamer's coverage of the event draws to a close we take a look back at the show's highs and lows, and see how ECTS '99 compared to last year's show...

The official ECTS awards were a bit of a farce this year as the journalists who voted for them descended into a crack addled coma.

Seeing as the official ECTS awards panel were obviously smoking too much crack (a PlayStation soccer game was the Game Of The Show?!?), EuroGamer has had to take matters into its own hands.

, creators of the Quake II Zaero mission pack and BattleZone : Red Odyssey, are looking for a new mapper, preferably with experience with QERadiant. Send your CV to these addresses.

Publisher Interplay has removed British developers Binary Asylum from the Star Trek : New Worlds project, apparently because of creative differences.

We've just posted our three page preview of the GeForce 256 here on EuroGamer. The preview takes a layman's look at the card, covering T&L acceleration and it's implications, fill rate, and 3dfx's attempts to "FUD" the card's launch.