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It's Thursday, so it must be demo day... There's been yet another big demo release today - "Age Of Empires II : Age Of Kings". This one is a relatively stunted 48Mb.

The eagerly awaited Ultima IX demo (as featured on the cover disk of the December issue of Computer Gaming World magazine in the US) has been posted over at 3D Files.

The bandwidth bandits at 3D Files have posted the Spirit Of Speed 1937 demo.

With Unreal Tournament almost finished, this week's EuroGamer interview is "The Sweeney", a chat with Tim Sweeney of Epic Games.

Tim Sweeney is the programming genius behind Epic Games' Unreal, a hit game in its own right as well as an engine which has been licensed to over a dozen other companies to be used in everything from role playing games and first person shooters to a virtual tour of Notre Dame cathedral.

Eidos have released a new demo for their RPG Revenant, which went gold recently. You can grab the demo direct from Eidos, or here from the gigabyte warriors at 3D Files. Either way, the demo weighs in at 43Mb. Not for the faint of bandwidth.

New writer Peter Male makes his debut on EuroGamer today with a preview of Flanker 2.0, a flight sim due out next month from SSI.

Flanker 2.0 is the sequel to the popular "Su-27 Flanker", and it certainly looks like it will be an impressive title.

Here at EuroGamer we've just posted our Homeworld review, taking a look at the latest real time strategy game from Sierra.

has posted an article comparing the prices of ADSL in various countries, including the latest details of BT's forthcoming service.

We don't normally report mod news, but this one was too good to pass up... Piggy's Quest is a new Unreal mod looking for mappers and texture artists.

If you're looking for some arcade rally action, check out the Sega Rally 2 demo, weighing in at a slightly hefty 47Mb.

Please welcome Pete and Geoff, formerly from Pete's Hardware domain to the EuroGamer team. They will be posting regular news along with new hardware and game reviews!

Speaking of gaming hybrids, Wheel Of Time (Legend's Unreal powered action-strategy-RPG) has gone gold!

The last couple of years have been pretty depressing for gamers, overtaken by a horde of mostly substandard Quake, Tomb Raider and Red Alert clones.

For some wholesome retro gaming with a nice 3D sheen, check out Tron 3D. It's a little (520Kb) freeware OpenGL game inspired by the light bikes scene from Tron.

David Perry of Shiny sent over these exclusive screenshots of third person cherub 'em up Messiah. Enjoy!

This week's EuroGamer mailbag is now up, featuring feedback on our X : Beyond The Frontier review and our Binary Asylum interview, as well as the usual crank mail and random abuse.

Activision have been giving out some of the good stuff, with three new shots of Quake 3 Arena appearing on Well-Rounded Entertainment and no less than six more on the Adrenaline Vault.

*Insert generic Lara Croft joke here*

Or something like that... Blast Pit have posted an interview with one of the level designers working on Nerf Arena Blast, a deathmatch game with no death.

Eidos today announced that "Championship Manager 3 : Season 1999/2000" will be released in December. This new version features the original CM3 with a whole bunch of tweaks and tucks, plus all the data for the new football season.

This week's EuroGamer review takes a critical look at X : Beyond The Frontier, a shameless Elite clone that misses the mark in spectacular fashion. Slow, dull, tedious, overblown, unrewarding and generally boring.

There are six more out takes over on the Outcast website. These little MPG movie files feature clips that you won't see in Outcast, including all kinds of things going wrong and arguments between the cast and director.

This week's EuroGamer interview is "From Paperboy To Messiah", talking with David Perry of Shiny.

has been part of the gaming industry since he was a teenager, back in the days when most games appeared as several pages of code printed in a magazine.

"People in Europe have a life". Yes, it's official. The managing director of Yahoo! Europe said it, so it must be true. Check this story on The Register for the full scoop.

There's a new version of the Unreal Tournament demo available. It's available as a 55Mb download for those of you who haven't tried UT yet, or a 9Mb patch for the rest of us.

A couple of years ago I posted an April Fool's joke on my website about a company releasing "Pong 2000", a 3D accelerated version of the classic two-bats-and-a-ball computer game.

This week's preview here on EuroGamer takes a peek at Faust, a bizarre adventure game from French publisher Cryo, loosely based on the legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil.