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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.

Thanks to Andy Smith for confirming that both "Odium" and "Tzar : Burden Of The Crown" were released on schedule today here in the UK. Our Odium review was posted yesterday, but we're still waiting for our review copy of Tzar to arrive. In the meantime, check out our Tzar preview from a few months back...

British developer Rebellion are probably best known for their recent hit first person shooter "Aliens vs Predator". We talked to the company's co-founder Jason Kingsley about how they got started, the Aliens connection, and their new game - Gunlok™.

Sierra sent word that Impressions Games are working on an expansion pack called "Cleopatra" for their ancient Egyptian city building sim, Pharaoh. As well as the full expansion pack, which is due in June, they will also release a "Pharaoh Enchancement Pack" which will be available to download for free and will include the latest patch, 20 new missions, and a scenario editor.

Our friends at System Logic have launched the successor to their old "Price Watch" feature. The new system finds you the lowest prices on the net for computer hardware and software, and can be searched or browsed through to find whatever you're looking for. Unfortunately for us Europeans, the price watch system only covers American internet retailers.

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

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Odium, which is due for release in the UK tomorrow.

Microsoft's GameStock 2000 is underway, with several new games (including some previously unannounced titles) being shown off. Their website features information about all the games, with StarLancer, Dungeon Siege, and the newly announced Mechwarrior 4 and MechCommander 2 all particularly worth a look.

Our UK release date list has been updated again with the latest information from UbiSoft. Several of their titles have slipped by a week or two, and we also have release dates for a few new titles including Infestation and Arcatera.

VRMagazine have released the third and final part of their free texture pack. Although the textures were designed with Quake 3 in mind, they should be usable in most other first person shooters as well.

I spotted over on Barrysworld that NTL have updated their roll-out schedule for introducing the technological marvels of cable modems to this wonderful third world country that I live in [That's Britain - sarcasm Ed.].

The folks at Challenge.AU sent us word that the biggest LAN in Australia yet, the Razer Big Day In, will be taking place this weekend. This will act as a qualifier for the big Razer-CPL tourney this April, and up to three of the winners will be sent to represent Australia in Dallas. Full details on the event's website.

The demo for "Star Trek : Klingon Academy" has been released, giving all you wannabe starship commanders the chance to take control of a Klingon Bird of Prey and blow up some of those soft-hearted Federation do-gooders. Weighing in at a rather hefty 82Mb, you can download it from the friendly folks at 3D Files.

The official website for Dungeon Siege, the RPG from Gas Powered Games, has now launched with information about and screenshots from the game.

UbiSoft just sent word that they will be publishing "In Cold Blood", the latest game from British developer Revolution, of "Broken Sword" fame. The game is due in September, and puts you in the boots of a British secret service agent called John Cord.

The EuroLAN website is now live, and we are taking bookings for the first EuroLAN event, a ninety player frag fest taking place over the weekend of April 1st in Brighton, UK.

New today on EuroGamer is our preview of Gunlok™, a gorgeous looking 3D action RPG set in a futuristic world of cyborgs, sentient robots, and mega-corporations plundering the Earth's natural resources. Plus ca change, eh? The preview includes comments from Jason Kingsley, co-founder of the company behind the game, British developer Rebellion.

Rebellion, the British developer behind Aliens vs Predator, is back with a new sci-fi action RPG called Gunlok™. We spoke to co-founder Jason Kingsley to find out more.

David Pitlyuk from SystemLogic has let me know that they are conducting an interview with Dave Taylor, prominent software engineer at Transmeta about their new Crusoe processor, and really anything dealing with the company but they need some interesting questions to ask Dave, so that's why they want you (the readers) to submit questions for him, they will then pick from the best to ask him. Send your questions to dave@systemlogic.net.

John from GA-Source informed me that Eidos Interactive have confirmed that they are currently developing a sequel to their third-person action adventure "Soul Reaver", tentively entitled Soul Reaver 2. This upcoming sequel will once again be developed by Crystal Dynamics and the game is slated for a Christmas 2000 release (although a 2001 release is a possibility). Check out the full scoop over at GA-Source and expect an official announcement about this game in the near future.

Virgin sent over these two rather fetching screenshots from the 3D turn-based tactical combat game, "The Dreamland Chronicles : Freedom Ridge", which Virgin recently announced they were publishing in the UK.

TopWare Interactive have finally released a playable demo (85.1 Mb) for their upcoming 3D real-time strategy game, Earth 2150: Escape From the Blue Planet which is scheduled for a May release. Here's a little list of mirrors:

The official Ground Control site have been re-designed and updated with tons of information, such as information about the two sides in the game, Crayven Corporation and Order of the New Dawn. Ground Control is an upcoming 3D real-time strategy game from the Swedish developers, Massive Entertainment, be sure to check out our in-house preview for more stuff on this game.

Pixeleers have released six new new character animations and teaser movie from their upcoming adventure game, It Came for Zog. You can grab these movies from GA-Source and while you're over there, take a look at their first look of this upcoming game.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Football World Manager 2000, the latest soccer management sim, this time from UbiSoft. Can it match up to the might of the all conquering Championship Manager series? Or is it headed for relegation? Read our review to find out!

BT had both good and bad news for British internet users this week... First the good news - for £9.99 a month you can now get unmetered internet access at evenings and weekends with BT Internet. Now the bad news - ADSL trials are going to grind on for another three months, which means you won't be able to buy ADSL until June or July at the earliest.

The latest of the recent flood of press releases coming out of Monolith has announced that Ripcord have bought six (count 'em!) LithTech licenses, including at least one for Zombie, the developer behind the Spec Ops series of games. For the full story, read the press release.

Eavy has posted an advanced guide to UT's Assault mode on his website. Given Eavy is currently ranked number one in the world on UT Assault, this is recommended reading.

An official website has opened for a multiplayer patch for SWAT3, which is expected in August and will be available for download or as part of an expansion pack, Battle Plan, which will also include six new missions for the game.

Brian Reynolds, the real brains behind classic turn-based strategy games such as Civilization 2, has resurfaced after his recent departure from long-time partner Sid Meier's company, Firaxis. His new company is called Big Huge Games, includes a few other former Firaxis employees, and will be making a real time strategy game.