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Monolith PR guru Dan Miller dropped us a line to let us know that the company's LithTech engine is being ported to the Sony Playstation 2. LithTech powered Shogo MAD, and is being used in a number of upcoming games including "No One Lives Forever" and Third Law's "KISS : Psycho Circus".

The folks at ClanBase have launched the "EuroCup", an international Quake 3 teamplay competition featuring 32 of the best clans from around Europe, including Germany's Schroet Kommando, Britain's UNR, and Norwegians Memento Mori.

The latest addition to the EuroGamer Empire has just launched! Run by former PlanetHalfLife content director Tom "Mugwum" Bramwell and EG local Geoff "The_Pope" Richards, Pocket Gamer will be covering hand-held gaming systems, including the Neo Geo Pocket and GameBoy Color.

Taking place in Sheffield last Wednesday, ETC 2000 was a conference organised by publishing giant Infogrames to give some of the thousands of game developers working for them a chance to hear about the latest technology from hardware manufacturers like NVIDIA and AMD, as well as getting the low-down on DirectX from Microsoft.

John from GA-Strategy informed me that Sierra Studios, Relic Entertainment and Barking Dog Studios unveiled today at the Milia trade show in Cannes, France, a new chapter in the real-time strategy series - Homeworld. Created by Canadian-based Barking Dog Studios, Homeworld: Cataclysm, scheduled for summer 2000 release, is the next evolution of the acclaimed Homeworld universe.

The Quake 3 Fortress people have posted some more screenshots of their forthcoming mod, which is essentially Team Fortress for Quake 3.

Not satisfied with just posting a mailbag, we've also got a preview of The Time Machine here on EuroGamer today. We take a look at Cryo's latest adventure game, based on the classic science fiction novel by HG Wells, and mixing pre-rendered backdrops with real time polygonal characters.

Gamesurge have posted a strategy guide to SWAT 3.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to travel through time?

Q3Center have posted a small coding tutorial showing you how to change the names of weapons in the game.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of NBA Basketball 2000 from Fox Sports.

Digital Extremes (Unreal Tournament co-developers together with Epic Games) have finally announced what will be their next big thing, which is Dark Sector an upcoming first-person shooter powered by the Unreal engine. Here's a snip from the press release I received from James Schmalz:

This week's interview is something a little different from usual... I was lucky enough to be one of the half dozen journalists who got into Infogrames' big "ETC 2000" developers conference earlier this week, which included a speech by the company's founder, Bruno Bonnell.

3dfx fired off a press release to announce that they will be unveiling their new Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5 graphics cards at the big CeBIT 2000 exhibition in Germany at the end of this month.

Taking place at the National Center For Popular Music in Sheffield last Wednesday, the Emerging Technologies Conference 2000 gave some of the many developers who work for Infogrames the chance to catch up on the latest developments in PC hardware and Microsoft's DirectX API.

I noticed over at 3D Files that Delphine have released a new patch for their popular (..and fun) role-playing game, Darkstone. This patch fixes some stuff with the monsters which are stronger and faster in this patch, a new "Legend" mode of play have also been added (that requires an experience level of 60). Head on over to 3D Files and read the full list of changes/fixes together with some downloading mirrors.

Everybody's favourite monopoly, Microsoft, sent us word that a public beta version of Starlancer should be out by the end of March! For those of you with an aversion to asteroids, Starlancer is an impressive looking space combat sim from Digital Anvil, the company founded by the Roberts Brothers who brought us the awesome Wing Commander series and the rather less awesome Wing Commander movie...

Our friends over at Adventure Gamer sent us word that they have a report up suggesting that Activision may be working on a remake of the classic Infocom text adventure game, Planetfall. It's just a rumour at the moment, but if you want to find out more read on...

Our UK release date list has been updated again, this time with the news that Final Fantasy VIII's release has slipped by a week to February 25th. For all the latest information, official and direct straight from the relevant publishers, check our UK release date list!

The Team Assault mod page have been updated with 12 new weapon screenshots (including a skinned axe and knife) and a rehauled FAQ.

More guides from the chaps over at CGO, today they have tossed up the second installment of their Battlezone II guide which helps you through this game, click here for part one. They have also posted the third part of their Ultima IX: Ascension guide to help you on your quest.

Acclaim recently announced the latest installment in the Turok series, Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion for the N64. However there was no mention of a PC version, and it looks like there will be pretty much zero chance that Turok 3 will see the PC. "Easy marketing choice - when you look at the competition in the PC market for first-person shooters, there are a ton of games that are designed specifically for the PC and took years to make," Adam Kahn, PR Manager for Acclaim Entertainment told GA-Source, I suggest that you read the full news-bit over at GA-Source.

Raven's programmer, Jake Simpson made a huge update to his .plan with information about Soldier of Fortune, Playstation 2, Raven and some hardware stuff. They are currently putting the finishing touches to Soldier of Fortune, tweaking and polishing the game before they let it out the door. Here's a chunk on Soldier of Fortune CTF:

John informed me that GA-RPG have received three exclusive screenshots from Black Isle Studios' upcoming role-playing game, Icewind Dale along with a bunch of tasty details. While you're browsing around there you could check out their in-house interview with Chris Parker of Black Isle Studios, Producer of Icewind Dale.

Here's something a little different... A pair of South African Quakers are getting married on Monday February 14th, and the ceremony will take place .. on a Quake 2 server!

New today on EuroGamer is our review of the Razer BoomSlang 2000, a mouse specially designed for gamers with above average precision and a flashy ergonomic design. Is it worth the rather extravagent (for a mouse) price tag? Read our review to find out!

- kärna LLCPrice - $99.99 for BoomSlang 2000 Price - $69.99 for BoomSlang 1000 (NOTE - shipping is extra outside USA)

I noticed over at my file resource 3D Files that Westwood Studios' have finally released the multiplayer demo of their anticipated role-playing game, Nox which will be released within a few days. Grab yourself a copy of the game and start playing.

GamesXtreme have updated their UK CPU price list, for any fellow Brits out there looking for a new processor...

We just got word that publisher Take 2 are going to be offering both Grand Theft Auto and its mission pack GTA London 1969 for free download through a new site, freeloader.com, when it goes live on May 1st. Sounds too good to be true? Check the full press release for more details...