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Tim Willits of id Software has updated his .plan with news that the company behind the Doom and Quake games are looking for a new level designer, hardly surprising as they lost at least two or three during the development of Quake 3 Arena...

LithTech Inc. have announced that 3DO's "New World Computing" division have licensed the LithTech engine to use in a forthcoming game set in the long-running Might & Magic universe. For the full scoop, check the press release.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of LeMans 24 Hour, a sports car racing game based on the classic 24 hour endurance race at Le Mans.

German publisher Topware sent us word that you can now find an MP3 of the title track from their forthcoming game Earth 2150 over on MP3.com.

Our friends at Cryo Interactive sent us word that they will now be publishing Test Drive 6. Originally the Test Drive series was developed and published by Accolade, who were taken over by Infogrames last year. It looks like Infogrames have now decided to off-load the long running driving game series though... Cryo are promising to have the game ready for release in May 2000.

New today on EuroGamer is our Deus Ex preview, taking a look at Ion Storm's first person role playing game. We got an up-close and personal look at the game down in London today with lead designer Warren Spector, whose previous work includes Ultima Underworld and System Shock, and I'm happy to report it's looking great.

I first saw Ion Storm's Deus Ex at ECTS '98, almost 18 months ago now. The game was still in its early stages, but already it was looking as if it had a lot of potential.

3D Realms' head honcho George Broussard made a response to a post on the official 3D Realms' messageboard regarding the most anticipated game of year 2000, here's the post:

There's a new edition of the Dino Diaries up on the Firaxis website. This time round, Sid Meier talks about snow and mutations, and Mike E. discusses graphics trade-offs and game shows. No, really.

FvF World have done a tutorial showing you how to make a new weapon model for Quake 3 Arena.

PC Stats reviews the Super Duper Slot Fan (no, that's its name, really) from 3D Cool.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Codename Eagle, a mission-based action game set in an alternative history where Russia has invaded Europe before the Germans could kick off the First World War.

Our Sidewinder Dual Strike competition is now over, and two lucky people have won themselves one of these lovely joypads from Microsoft. And the fortunate duo? Andrew Rossiter of Nottingham (United Kingdom) and Brad Maloney of Pennsylvania (United States).

Epic Games today announced that its Unreal Tournament game engine is being licensed by Gold Creek Technology, L.L.C. for its upcoming Second Genesis role-playing game. The game, which is being developed by Gold Creek Technology's creative business unit Alternate State Entertainment, will be released in fall of 2001. You can read more about this game on Gold Creek's official website.

A new movie of Human Head Studios upcoming kick-ass Viking action game have finally been released, exclusively for Ragnarok, a sanctioned fan site of Rune. Be sure to grab this movie from the Fileplanet ( 29.7 Mb).

Our UK Release Date List has been updated with the latest information from Activision UK.

This week's article here on EuroGamer is "Online Gaming For The Masses", a look at how the arrival of internet-ready consoles like the Dreamcast and Playstation 2 could effect the online gaming community, and in particular first person shooters.

Our Sidewinder Dual Strike competition ends today, so if you want a chance to win one of two Dual Strike gamepads make sure to check this page for the rules and get your entry in today! The lucky winners will be announced tomorrow, so keep 'em peeled!

The screenshots page over on FvF World has been updated with shots of the ten new weapons from the forthcoming mod, which is a sequel to a fairly popular QuakeWorld mod from "back in the day".

With the worldwide release of the Dreamcast last year, the new generation of consoles was born.

Hentai, the man behind the original Quake 2 VWep mod is back with "Viz", a mod for Quake 3 that adds a ton of server and client configurable options.

George Broussard, the 3D Realms' head honcho made a post on the Planet Duke forums about their ultimate plans for Duke Nukem Forever, here's a snip:

AnandTech reviews the Microstar BXMaster i440BX Slot-1 ATX motherboard

Cliffe from the Counter-Strike team made a lengthy update to the official page regarding beta six of their extremely popular Half-Life mod, Counter-Strike. In the beta six release we can expect two completely new gameplay modes, they are, "Assasination" and "Escape", I'll let Cliffe fill you in on the details about these two modes. They are in need of high quality maps for these two new gameplay modes, so if you have any mapping skills at all then I suggest that you start designing those Counter-Strike maps. Check out the interesting update on the official page, here's a blurb on the gameplay modes:

Yes, after a prolonged hibernation, the EuroGamer mailbag is now back! We've got feedback on our Planescape Torment review, as well as a little selection of the weird e-mails we get sent here at EuroGamer... Need something to brighten up your Sunday? Read the mailbag damnit!

Our buddy Sameer from Warcraft3.net has fired up a lengthy in-depth analysis of the Warcraft III gameplay videos from the recent press conference that was held in Korea. But that's not all, Sameer has also tossed up some concept art from Blizzard which has never been shown on ANY website before, this concept art was featured in a Finnish magazine a while back.

FvF World have posted a flamethrower tutorial, showing you how to add everyone's favourite weapon into Quake 3.

Tumb, webmaster at UT-Web.de, a german UT site fired, off an email to Epic Games' lead programmer, Tim Sweeney asking about upcoming patches or fixes for UnrealED, the Unreal/Unreal Tournament level editor. Here's the reply from Tim:

The lucky chaps over at Square Gamer have received some juicy details about SquareSoft's upcoming project, if you thought the praised Final Fantasy series would die after Final Fantasy VIII, then you're wrong. Squaresoft have announced three more games in the Final Fantasy series that will make their appearance for Sony's Playstation (both PSX1 and PSX2), they are, IX, X and XI. Final Fantasy IX will be released summer 2000 in Japan, and will be available for the Playstation (you'll still be able to play it on your Playstation 2 though, as that console will be backwards compatible). The other two Final Fantasy games will only be available for the Playstation 2, Final Fantasy X will give players the option of playing a single-player game or an online game while Final Fantasy XI will be an online only title.

Mike Dussault, programmer over at Monolith has updated his .plan with some information about Monolith's LithTech 2 engine, he talks about new LithTech 2 features, Third Law Interactive, DirectX 7 (which is now in the engine) and there's even a little blurb about skeletal animation. I recommend that you check out the two screenshots of the engine in action over at VE, shot 1 and shot 2.