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As we approach a major decimal roll-over on a purely arbritary calendar, EuroGamer uses the excuse to take a look back at the last millenium from a gamer's point of view.

John Carmack updated his .plan with some advice on how to get the best out of Quake 3 on a modem connection (such as avoiding overcrowded servers and maps with wide open spaces). Nothing groundbreaking, but if you're having problems with lag it's worth a look.

Through the annals of gaming history, certain titles stand out in glistening six foot tall neon letters. These games have created genres, inspired the games that followed, or simply been damn good fun.

As well as seeing a flood of good games, 1999 has also seen some important developments for gamers everywhere. We take a look at a few of the key events of this year...

Ultima IX might have been kicked out the door before it was ready, and Command & Conquer : Tiberian Sun may have been something of an anti-climax for many people, but generally 1999 has been a great year for gamers.

The mission editor for Nocturne is now available over at Spookhouse, the main fan site for the game. You should now be able to create new settings and missions, and import new models (but not character models) and skins into the game. Grab it here.

We've got a special unfestive Boxing Day mailbag up for you all today, featuring feedback on our Quake 3 review, our article about the Quake 3 vs Unreal Tournament debate, and of course a selection of some of the "best" losing answers from our Half-Life OpFor competition. Check it out!

New today on EuroGamer is a review of the Creative Labs Annihilator Pro, something which I'm sure we all wished had appeared under our Christmas trees last night...

- Creative LabsPrice - £218 ( direct from Creative Europe)

EuroGamer has made a stand, and is proud to be the only gaming website in the world without a lame Christmas logo! You won't find any of the following here on EuroGamer -

There's a multiplayer patch out for Slave Zero, Infogrames' "big bio-robot stomping around in a city blowing shit up from a third person perspective stylee" game. Of course, it's not actually available in Europe yet, but for those of you on the wrong side (bwuhaha) of the Atlantic it might be some use...

The soundtrack from one of the year's best games, Outcast, is now available on the Outcast website in MP3 format.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of "Gabriel Knight 3 : Blood Of The Sacred, Blood Of The Damned", a 3D adventure game from Sierra in which you must uncover the secrets of the French town of Rennes Le Chateau...

This week's EuroGamer preview takes a look at Demolition Racer, a racing game in which you are actually encouraged to crash into the other cars and cause as much damage and mayhem as possible. Check our preview for more information, including several screenshots of the game in action...

A new beta version of my current addiction, the space trading RPG Diaspora, is now available. The new version adds contraband trading, long range messaging, and a new starship manufacturer, which adds another eight ships to the thirty two already available.

I've never been particularly good at racing games. In fact, whenever I get a new one, within days I've resorted to driving backwards around the track, trying to take out as many of the other drivers in as spectacular a fashion as I can.

Up today on EuroGamer is our review of "Railroad Tycoon II : Gold Edition", the deluxe version of one of the year's most unlikely hits. Whoever thought that managing a railway empire would be so much fun?

My review copy of Planescape Torment has just arrived from the game's European publishers, Virgin Interactive, and with it comes news that the UK release date for the game is January 7th. Expect a full review here on EuroGamer some time early in the new year!

This one has been a long time coming... Westwood have finally released a demo for their real time strategy game, "Command & Conquer : Tiberian Sun". As usual, you can grab it from 3D Files. Of course, chances are that if you like real time strategy games you've already got Tiberian Sun anyway...

For those of you looking for European master servers for Quake 3...

As the new millenium looms, a war is taking place on the internet. A war of words.

Our "Half-Life : Opposing Force" competition closed today - thanks to everyone who entered, and commiserations to all the losers!

There's a new version of the server browser Game Explorer out, improving Quake 3 Arena support and adding Unreal Tournament support.

Now that makes a refreshing change... Telefragged sent us word that they have posted two new clips of music ( here and here) and one full length song ( here) from the forthcoming Gunman TC for Half-Life. All the music is in MP3 format.

New today on EuroGamer is our review of Pharaoh, a city building strategy game set in ancient Egypt.

Firaxis have announced that Sid "Name In Six Foot Capitals On Front Of Box" Meier's next project will be a strategy game about dinosaurs, called (imaginatively enough) "Sid Meier's Dinosaurs!".

Demon Internet Nederlands dropped us a line to let us know they are opening a new dial-up system to tie in with their Demon Online Gamer ("DOG") servers. This dial-up is dedicated to gaming, only giving you access to DOG's servers, website and FTP, and it should give you the best possible connection to the servers.

This week's interview here on EuroGamer is "Blitz", a chat with Swedish developers SouthEnd Interactive.

Swedish developers SouthEnd Interactive came very much out of leftfield just a few weeks ago, releasing the first screenshots of an impressive looking multiplayer game called "Blitz : Disc Arena".

Since officially launching on Monday, over 500 people from around the world have already signed up as members of the Online Gamers Association. We now have members in countries from Norway to New Zealand, and from Canada to China!