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Brandon Reinhart has updated his .plan with some information about what Epic will be up to at the Game Developers Conference this weekend. The list of things they will be showing off there includes their new terrain system, skeletal animation, the Playstation 2 port of the engine, and the new UnrealEd being developed by Warren Marshall over at Legend.

Criterion Studios, creators of Sub Culture and Redline Racer, have released an AVI (15Mb) for their upcoming underwater action title, Deep Fighter which is scheduled for a Q3 2000 release. Grab the movie over at GA-Source

Ok, so Daikatana might have been in development for slightly longer, but the second installment of the eagerly awaited Doom II mega-wad The Darkening is right up there with it. Featuring a dozen single player levels and a dozen deathmatch maps by some of the best Doom mappers around, and 600 (count 'em!) new textures by pixel pusher extraordinaire Ola Bjorling, this is well worth a look if you're a Doom fan.

Our friends over at ModGamer have posted an interview with Gooseman, project leader of the team behind the Counter-Strike mod for Half-Life. The interview covers (with typical Gooseman brevity) Beta6 and beyond, Wham!, mod making software, UT vs Q3A, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Check it out!

Noticed an extremly interesting news blurb over at CGO regarding the upcoming turn-based strategy Star Trek online game from Activision and Genetic Anomalies, the game will be called Star Trek: ConQuest Online and it is scheduled for a release this spring. Check out the entire blurb at CGO

Cliffe updated the Counter-Strike website today with an official release date for the upcoming beta 6 version, which will be out this Friday. They will also be holding an IRC release party called Spamfest III in their IRC channel #counterstrike on Gamesnet at 7pm EST, many Counter-Strike team members will participate in this event too, so be sure to check it out.

TegSkywalker informed me that the Team Assault Quake 3 mod page (a team oriented mod for Quake 3 that captures the feel and stays true to Quakeworld Team Fortress.) have been updated with new screenshots of the finished Flamethrower, Single shotgun, and the engineer's Railgun. They are also having a map contest where you can show them your TF style map, and if it gets accepted, they will include it as part of the mod. For more details, contact Jayle.

According to the blokes at Gone Gold, Red Storm Entertainment's upcoming Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear mission pack, Urban Operations have gone gold and will be available on the shelves soon. For more stuff on this upcoming mission pack visit the official website.

New today on EuroGamer is our in-depth hands-on preview of Earth 2150.

As in the classic sci-fi movie "The Day The Earth Caught Fire", Earth 2150 sees the planet knocked from its orbit and sent spiralling into the sun by man's weapons of mass destruction.

The chaps at Incite Games have slapped up an interview with the Rune product manager, Tim Gerritsen from Human Head Studios. It's a pretty short interview yet damn interesting as this upcoming Unreal engine powered looks real good.

BT have responded to the recent announcement of free internet access from NTL by reducing the planned price of their SurfTime service.

Another update has been made to Asheron's Call, adding (amongst other things) coloured lighting, improvements to melee combat against moving targets (yay!), new models for Drudges and Golems, festival grounds, and .. a wedding hall. No, really. You too can now get married in Asheron's Call. Amongst the more amusing changes is this one -

has posted an article looking at some new beta drivers from NVIDIA for their GeForce cards. Apparently with a little tomfoolery these allow S3TC and Full Scene Anti-Aliasing support in OpenGL games (like Quake 3).

Today's review here on EuroGamer takes a look at "Sid Meier's Antietam!", a real time wargame from Firaxis which recreates one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War.

Project Overdrive is an ambitious combination of first-person shooting, action/adventure, and a good dose of driving, that promises complete freedom "to live your life as you see fit". GA-Source have conducted an interview with project manager, Kenneth Morton, to find out more about this unique action game and this interview includes five new screenshots.

NTL looks set to finally bring Britain kicking and screaming into the 20th Century [sic] next month by offering totally free internet access - no sign-up fee, no monthly charge, and no phone bills!

Tetris! For UWindows is a new mod for Unreal Tournament, this time letting you play a fully featured Tetris in the game's user interface. Scary...

FiringSquad have posted their coverage of Microsoft's GameStock 2000.

John Scott of Raven updated his .plan with word that Soldier of Fortune (including the UK, French and German versions of it) is now in final testing, which means that it could be on its way to the duplicators in about a week if everything goes well.

New today on EuroGamer is The Dereth Diary, chronicling my growing addiction to Asheron's Call and taking an offbeat look at the game through the eyes of a newbie.

For the last month I have been addicted to it.

City Of Games have posted a strategy guide for Unreal Tournament CTF.

have slapped up an interview with AMD's chairman, Jerry Sanders. The interview covers Dell, next-gen consoles, and of course AMD's future plans.

According to a report in The Sunday Times, Alta Vista are about to launch a completely free ISP here in the UK. There will be an initial £30 setup fee, but after that there will be no monthly charges, and you will dial into an 0800 number, meaning no more phone charges.

Randy just informed me that I.am/Half-Life is now chock-full of awesome new goodies for Half-Life, Opposing Force, and Counter-Strike. There are now new mods available (including the cool new Sabaneta 2050), Counter-Strike scripts and aliases, Opposing Force maps, Half-Life single-player maps, models and skins, updated console info, and even a load of new miscellaneous files that are just too unusual and varied to describe here. And don't forget to sign up for the newsletter to get your chance to win one of three Microsoft Dual-Strike controllers.

Seems like we missed this interesting little tidbit, Gearbox Software have released the demo for their official Half-Life expansion pack, Opposing Force over at GameCenter (you could also grab it from 3D Files). It comes in two flavors : small (30mb) if you already own Half-Life and a full, stand alone version (70mb) if you don't own Half-Life.

A big new feature has been added to the OGA website. All our members can now post their own .plans on the site, with the ten most popular .plans listed on the front page of the OGA website for all the world to see. And you thought that .plans were just for the John Carmacks and Tim Sweeneys of the world!

Cached have posted an interview with DM-C3, the second place man at the recent Cyber Arena tourney.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of The Sims, the new game from Sim City creator Will Wright in which you take control of the lives of a family of "Sims", helping them find jobs, romance and stretched limos... It's just like directing your own soap opera on your computer, complete with tragic accidents, same sex relationships, and adultery.