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Quake 3 Arena is now officially gold, according to Activision. The game should be on shelves in the USA for December 12th, but we're still waiting to hear an official European release date from Activision UK. Our best guess at the moment is December 17th for the UK...

Every major PC gaming magazine in the UK is busy trying to get online, but Games Domain are heading the opposite way, putting out a print magazine called Games Domain Offline.

Diaspora is an online space trading game made right here in the UK, but before you get your hopes up this is no Elite for the new millenium...

(or "The DOG" for short) has launched over in the Netherlands.

You still can't buy the game unless you're American, but you can at least get the demo. Antietam! is a real time wargame based on a battle from the American Civil War, and comes from Sid Meier and the boys at Firaxis.

As an update to our multimedia article from yesterday, I spotted over on Voodoo Extreme that they have a mail from John Carmack clarifying the lack of EAX support in Quake 3 Arena.

New today on EuroGamer is a review of not one but two different sets of high quality speaker from Videologic.

Videologic are currently redefining the face of multimedia. We already know of their PowerVR technology, which has met with mixed results, but many of you maybe unaware of their relatively new series of speaker systems.

John Carmack of id Software updated his .plan with some information about the Quake 3 source code, the inevitable slew of patches that will follow the game's release, and what he has planned next. Amongst his future projects is making "cyberspace" a reality apparently...

have announced that they'll be making a Quake 3 version of the Future vs Fantasy Quake TC, which attracted a cult following back in "the day". Details here.

If you're a regular you've no doubt noticed by now, and if you're not you probably don't care, but we've just launched our new site design! I'm sure you'll agree it's a big improvement on the old design. :-)

In today's world we tend to forget the true meaning of "multimedia", and instead concentrate too highly on the visual part and not enough on the audio part.

No, really. The South Park Quake mod has reached version 2.0, and finally supports GLQuake. Here's a snip from the website -

Christian Antkow of id Software updated his .plan with the message "Gold!!!! ph34r!!!!!!!!" late last night. It looks like Quake 3 Arena has finally gone gold!

The news is so slow today you could fall asleep waiting for it to move...

New on EuroGamer today is our review of Thief Gold.

Cyphre of Star Trek : Creative dropped us a line to let us know that Interplay have released some new screenshots of "Star Trek : New Worlds".

Paul from MadOnion.com (formerly Futuremark) has sent us 2 rather tasty screenshots from their soon-to-be-released 3D card benchmark program 3DMark 2000.

John Carmack has updated his .plan again with another update to his work log. Nothing remarkable there .. except, what the hell does "shrink zone, grow hunk" mean?!?

There is now a demo available for Flanker 2.0, which we reviewed yesterday. It weighs in at a bandwidth sapping 39Mb, and you can find it over on 3D Files as usual.

TSI sent word that "Animaniacs Splat Ball", a cute isometric CTF game featuring cartoon characters plastering each other with paintballs, is now shipping in the USA. The game is published by Southpeak Interactive.

The highly anticipated Unreal Tournament has slipped to the new UK release date of December 3rd! This is two weeks after the American release.

The man with the whip (no, not the guy from Devo you idiot) is back! "Indiana Jones And The Infernal Machine", due for release in the UK on November 26th, comes under the spotlight in this week's EuroGamer preview.

For kids growing up during the 80's there were two major film series which featured heavily in playground re-enactments - the first was obviously Star Wars, and the second was Indiana Jones.

PR pimps TSI sent us word that you can now pre-order the American Civil War game "Sid Meier's Antietam!" from the Firaxis website for $29.99. At the moment it's only available to Americans (bloody fascists) but they should be taking international orders soon.

It seems that one fact that slipped by almost unmentioned in the VSA-100 launch at Comdex yesterday was that the top of the range Voodoo 5 6000 card handily doubles as an electric fire to heat your room...

New today on EuroGamer is our exclusive review of "Faust", a bizarre adventure game from French publisher Cryo.

British gamers might want to check out ISP Review, a site which checks out the performance of different ISPs. They already have a few reviews up, as well as an article on 0800 net access.

In yesterday's article, "On The Ropes", I mistakenly wrote that the 3dfx Voodoo 4 has 16Mb of RAM. Actually it has 32Mb. I've now corrected the error.

This week's article here on EuroGamer is "On The Ropes", a look at the reality behind 3dfx's product announcements at Comdex earlier today.