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There's two big new previews from ECTS on EuroGamer today - "Team Fortress 2 : Brotherhood Of Arms" and " Command & Conquer : Renegade".

Team Fortress 2 seems to have been under development for ever, and the entire game has been scrapped and started again from scratch at least once.

It's been five long years since Command & Conquer first introduced us to the Global Defense Iniative, the Brotherhood of Nod, and Tiberium. Its success helped spawned the whole real time strategy genre, and along with Red Alert and all the various mission packs and bundles that followed it's managed to shift somewhere in the region of 10 million units.

New features appearing over on that great Aussie site, Bigkid.

Today we take a look at Virgin Interactive's line up at ECTS, with a preview of Star Trek : New Worlds and quick looks at MDK2 and Messiah.

The Star Trek franchise has seen something of a renaissance in recent years, and the trend looks set to continue into the new millenium with games like Raven's "Star Trek Voyager : Elite Force". But amongst the mass of Trek games due to appear over the next year, one of the most promising but least well known is "Star Trek : New Worlds" from Britain's own Binary Asylum.

Shiny's MDK was one of those games that got rave reviews from every magazine under the sun, but for some reason didn't sell very well. It had great graphics (for the time), lots of neat toys and weapons to play around with, and a unique visual style. Unfortunately it was also rather linear, but as third person shooters go it was ahead of its time.

Last year at ECTS the coming of Messiah was greeted by street preachers and a gospel choir outside the Olympia. This year the hype was much more subdued but the game itself was looking much better, with more gameplay on show and more impressive graphics and level design.

3D Action Planet of all places has posted a short editorial about the attempts of the UKPCGC to get professional gaming recognised as a sport here in the UK.

EuroGamer isn't the only site covering ECTS '99. If you just can't get enough ECTS action, you can find even more coverage at the following sites -

We've just posted our preview of Activision's line up for 2000, covering Dark Reign II, Soldier Of Fortune and Vampire : Redemption.

Although Activision once again spurned the crowded exhibition halls of ECTS this year, they were in London to demonstrate several of their games on Monday. Taking over the York Suite at the swanky Royal Garden Hotel must have cost them almost as much as a proper stand at ECTS would have done, but whatever their reasons it did at least give us a chance to check out some of their games in relative quiet.

FAKK2 is the game of the movie of the graphic novel, a third person action adventure game in which you control the scantily clad gun-toting Julia. So far, so Tomb Raider.

When I first heard about KISS : Psycho Circus I was rather dubious. I'm not a KISS fan, and the idea of a game based around them was pretty unappealing. You only have to look at Ed Hunter (the Iron Maiden game) or Queen : The Eye to see just how bad this kind of tie in can be. In fact, even the game's designers were "skeptical at first" when they were approached with the idea.

The Cyberathlete Professional League's director of tournaments, Mike Wardwell, has been interviewed over on Truegamers.

The new nVidia GeForce256 could be on store shelves within 30 days, it was announced this afternoon. Creative Labs will be retailing the next generation card at £199.

Grand Theft Auto was released .. ooh .. back when it was safe to leave your door unlocked at night, and you could wander down the middle of a road wearing an orange robe and banging a tambourine without fear of being run over by some homicidal maniac in a flash car.

Our live coverage from ECTS continues with a full report on Warcraft III, an in-depth look at Unreal Tournament, and previews of X-Com Alliance and Grand Theft Auto 2.

The days of the classic X-Com games - all low resolution tiles, sprites, isometric viewpoints and sedate turn based combat - are long since gone, thank god. These days it's all texture mapped polygons, coloured lighting and fast paced real time battles.

When Epic unveiled Unreal Tournament several months ago many people wrote it off as a Quake III Arena clone, and Unreal's initially poor netcode and wimpy weapons certainly didn't help either.

Blizzard's announcement of "Warcraft III : Reign Of Chaos" at ECTS today might not have "changed the world" as their website has been promising, but it certainly changed the world of Azeroth... The game is aiming to "redefine the strategy genre", and there are some pretty major departures from previous Warcraft titles. Eye Candy

It's that time of year again.... For three days the sun comes out, the temperature soars, and over 20,000 sweaty journalists pile into the Olympia exhibition center in the heart of London.

One of the biggest stories from ECTS so far is Blizzard's unveiling of Warcraft III. The press conference was so packed they had to run it twice to fit everyone in!

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