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Must be visiting hours... GameLinks.net have slapped up an interview with Lulu LaMer (what a great name), the associate producer of "Thief 2 : The Metal Age", the sequel to first person sneak 'em up and most appropriately subtitled game of 1998, "Thief : The Dark Project".

The Evil One over at Evil Avatar fired off a few questions to Epic Games' lead programmer, Tim Sweeney about the performance of Unreal Tournament and future enhancements we can expect. This Q&A Session features some very interesting answers from Tim Sweeney so be sure that you don't miss this one.

Richard Stutz informed me that 3DGaming.net have slapped up an article entitled the "Diablo II Beta Test Conspiracy" (pretty self-explanatory). 3DGN reveals to the world just how one gets accepted for the Diablo II beta test and why we should all laugh at the variety of nutjobs who did, it is a fun editorial so check it out.

Today's review here on EuroGamer is of Final Fantasy VIII, the latest in the series of epic Japanese console RPGs to make the journey to the PC. Has the game lost anything in the translation? Read our review to find out!

The newly opened UO2 Vault has posted a big interview with Ultima Online 2's lead designer, Damion Schubert.

GameSurge have posted an interview with one of the team behind the NATO mod for Rogue Spear

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, along comes another press release from Monolith. This time they've signed to develop content using the LithTech engine for RealNetworks, best known for their RealPlayer streaming audio and video doohickey.

There's a new patch for Unreal Tournament (v413) out today, weighing in at a modest 5.6Mb and fixing the green skin problem amongst other changes - thanks to PlanetUnreal for the heads up.

Following last Thursday's Dispatches episode titled "Video Nasties", which gave a rather skewed and heavily biased view of the gaming violence debate, EuroGamer has posted its own response to the programme. "Video Nasty?" takes a look at the evidence presented in the programme, and comes up with some suggestions on how to minimise any potential risk to young children without resorting to the blanket censorship of violent games recommended by Dispatches.

Last Thursday evening, Channel 4 aired an episode of their current affairs programme "Dispatches" titled "Video Nasties", taking a look at the effect of violent games.

Our UK release dates list has been updated again, this time adding the latest release information from THQ, whose semi-sequel to X : Beyond The Frontier, "X-Tension", is due for release on April 28th. We've also got updated information from Virgin, with the UK release date for MDK2 slipping back another three weeks to the end of May.

Fox Interactive sent word that their hit 3D platform game sequel, Croc 2, will be appearing on the PC at the end of next month, featuring a two player "OmniPlay" mode, new bosses including "Cannon Boat Keith" (no, really), and a trader by the name of "Swap Meet Pete". Sadly his name won't be localised to "Car Boot Sale Dale" for the UK release of the game...

Earlier this week Aureal announced that most of their senior management had quit the company en masse. Today Tech Extreme have interviewed Aureal's Product Manager, talking mostly about the latest version of A3D and its development. There's almost nothing about the company's current problems (apparently he can't talk about that yet), but Tech Extreme are promising a follow-up interview with more information about what the future holds (if anything) for Aureal.

John Carmack, lead programmer over at id Software updated his .plan with his memories of Seumas McNally, the talented lead programmer over at Longbow Digital Arts who tragically passed away about a week ago. John met him through the Startlight Foundation, an organization that tries to grant wishes to seriously ill kids. Be sure to check out GameDev's.com memorial article which is a VERY good read.

The official Dawn of Darkness website (an RPG Total Conversion for Quake II) with a little update on this total conversion, they are still working on Episode 2 and they will be getting up to full speed this week. The team have also released two short mp3 songs from this very popular TC, be sure to grab the demo immediately.

Rich Carlson (formerly of Ion Storm and Looking Glass) sent word of an article over on MobyGames about "Abandonware", and the rights and wrongs of pirating old games that software companies no longer sell or support. It's pretty long, but worth a look if you're interested in classic games.

The Firing Squad got a very interesting article up, featuring some famous PC developers opinions on the notorious, X-Box. Be sure to check out the opinions of famous developers such as, Jake Simpson from Raven Software, Brandon "Greenmarine" Reinhart of Epic Games, Ryan Feltrin from Gray Matter and a bunch of other great developers.

Ryan "Ridah" Feltrin of Gray Matter Interactive (formerly Xatrix Entertainment) updated his .plan file stating that he has gone and compiled a dedicated Linux Kingpin v1.21 binary set. Here's a little snip from the plan:

Lucas Pawelczyk informed me that to celebrate the Grand Opening of Add-on Universe (Levels, Skin, Mods and More) they are holding a little contest, where you can win a signed copy of Sin, a copy of Bleem and a Sin t-shirt. All you have to do is to enter your name and then you got the chance to win, so head on over and enter the contest.

The Q3Fortress team have announced that the first public beta release of their mod will be out at midnight BST on April 1st - no joke.

The movie industry has the Oscars, the music industry has the GRAMMYs, and now the gaming industry has the Gaming Globes! Our inaugural Gaming Globe awards this year cover fifteen different categories, from sound and visual effects to storyline and overall game design.

The movie industry has the Oscars, music has the GRAMMYs, journalism has the Pulitzers, and now the gaming industry has the Gaming Globes!

Breaking news from around the EuroGamer Network...

The Adrenaline Vault have gone Soldier crazy, with a preview of the third person action game based on the dodgy Kurt Russell sci-fi movie of the same name from a couple of years ago, as well as an interview with one of the team behind the game, and some rather tasty screenshots of the game in action.

The future of Aureal, the company behind the popular A3D sound system, hangs in the balance today with the news that the company's CEO, technical and financial officers, and most of the other senior staff members have resigned en masse for reasons as yet unknown.

John informed me that GA-Source got some details on the engine featured in the upcoming action mech game, MechWarrior 4. They received these spicy details from the producer, TJ Wagner, this game is scheduled for a Q4 release.

(bless you) has posted an interview with Tom Hall, the mad genius behind Ion Storm's promising looking Quake 2 engined RPG, Anachronox (gezundheit). The interview is actually a few months old, but on the plus side it includes a few new screenshots of the game in action.

The new Mod Watch is up over at Telefragged, with a review of scoring mod Decimal, and a chat with a member of the team behind Urban Terror.

This week's interview here on EuroGamer is with Zsolt Vamosi (try saying that after a few beers!). Zsolt is the CEO of Philos Labs, the Hungarian company behind the strategy game Theocracy, which we reviewed yesterday.

The fly boys over at SimHQ have interviewed Bubba Wolford, now a PR man at 3dfx but formerly hardware editor of .. SimHQ. It's a small world. The interview mostly covers 3dfx's new graphics cards, which are due some time soon.