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The Unreal Tournament demo is out! It weighs in at around 48Mb, and this one is Glide only so you'll need a 3dfx card to play it. Here's a quick list of mirror sites we've found so far -

Paul Benjamin at Infogrames UK was kind enough to send over some exclusive screenshots of Slave Zero, their impressive looking third person giant-robot-stomping-through-a-city-blowing-shit-up game.

Looks like the hurricane (and some bugs) did hold up the Unreal Tournament demo release after all. Let's look on the bright side though, downloading the demo Friday night - Saturday morning is going to be cheaper (in the UK at least) than trying to do it during the week...

An Unreal Tournament mailing list has been set by Mat Bettinson at UKgamer for discussion of the great game! Send an e-mail to mdaemon@mats.net with subscribe utuk in the message body to subscribe!

And Europe.HEAT.net isn't alone - Sierra's WON.net announced the opening of its first European portal yesterday, as well as unveiling its new website design and a partnership with Activision.

was launched at The Playing Fields last night, and of course the EuroGamer team were there. No doubt lured by the promise of free booze and the chance to play Q3Test over TPF's network...

Bad news for non-3dfx owners - although the Glide version should be released as expected later today, the full demo version of Unreal Tournament might be delayed for a few days by Hurricane Floyd!

The London gaming cafe, The Playing Fields have posted some announcements on their site:

Epic have confirmed that the Unreal Tournament demo will be out tomorrow, Thursday September 16th!

This week's EuroGamer preview takes a look at 3dfx's next graphics card, code-named "Napalm". We take a layman's look at 3dfx's newly announced FXT1 texture compression system, their decision to make it open source, what this means for the future, and of course the T-Buffer effects. For the full scoop, read on...

3dfx still don't have a real sample of their next graphics card (code-named "Napalm") to show us, but that didn't stop them announcing another of the card's key technologies at this year's ECTS.

Completing our coverage of this year's ECTS, we've just posted our ECTS '99 Wrap Up. This takes a look at the show, its highs and lows, and how it compares to last year's event.

ECTS is over for another year, and the whole circus has packed up and gone home. As EuroGamer's coverage of the event draws to a close we take a look back at the show's highs and lows, and see how ECTS '99 compared to last year's show...

The official ECTS awards were a bit of a farce this year as the journalists who voted for them descended into a crack addled coma.

Seeing as the official ECTS awards panel were obviously smoking too much crack (a PlayStation soccer game was the Game Of The Show?!?), EuroGamer has had to take matters into its own hands.

, creators of the Quake II Zaero mission pack and BattleZone : Red Odyssey, are looking for a new mapper, preferably with experience with QERadiant. Send your CV to these addresses.

Publisher Interplay has removed British developers Binary Asylum from the Star Trek : New Worlds project, apparently because of creative differences.

We've just posted our three page preview of the GeForce 256 here on EuroGamer. The preview takes a layman's look at the card, covering T&L acceleration and it's implications, fill rate, and 3dfx's attempts to "FUD" the card's launch.

The GeForce 256 raised a storm when it was announced recently. NVIDIA are claiming it's a giant leap for computer graphics. 3dfx are trying to write it off as one small step for NVIDIA. So, which of them is right?

If you just can't get enough ECTS loving, here are some more sites that have posted coverage of the event this week -

There's two big new previews from ECTS on EuroGamer today - "Team Fortress 2 : Brotherhood Of Arms" and " Command & Conquer : Renegade".

Team Fortress 2 seems to have been under development for ever, and the entire game has been scrapped and started again from scratch at least once.

It's been five long years since Command & Conquer first introduced us to the Global Defense Iniative, the Brotherhood of Nod, and Tiberium. Its success helped spawned the whole real time strategy genre, and along with Red Alert and all the various mission packs and bundles that followed it's managed to shift somewhere in the region of 10 million units.

New features appearing over on that great Aussie site, Bigkid.

Today we take a look at Virgin Interactive's line up at ECTS, with a preview of Star Trek : New Worlds and quick looks at MDK2 and Messiah.

The Star Trek franchise has seen something of a renaissance in recent years, and the trend looks set to continue into the new millenium with games like Raven's "Star Trek Voyager : Elite Force". But amongst the mass of Trek games due to appear over the next year, one of the most promising but least well known is "Star Trek : New Worlds" from Britain's own Binary Asylum.

Shiny's MDK was one of those games that got rave reviews from every magazine under the sun, but for some reason didn't sell very well. It had great graphics (for the time), lots of neat toys and weapons to play around with, and a unique visual style. Unfortunately it was also rather linear, but as third person shooters go it was ahead of its time.

Last year at ECTS the coming of Messiah was greeted by street preachers and a gospel choir outside the Olympia. This year the hype was much more subdued but the game itself was looking much better, with more gameplay on show and more impressive graphics and level design.

3D Action Planet of all places has posted a short editorial about the attempts of the UKPCGC to get professional gaming recognised as a sport here in the UK.

EuroGamer isn't the only site covering ECTS '99. If you just can't get enough ECTS action, you can find even more coverage at the following sites -