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At ECTS last month, both 3dfx and NVIDIA were setting their sights on Digital Hollywood.

Our friends over at Adventure Gamer have posted a preview of Gabriel Knight 3, written for them by one of the game's beta testers. You don't get much more "hands on" than that!

For those of you still living in the dark ages, there's now a PCI version of the Voodoo 3 3000 from 3dfx. Described as "the fastest PCI board available today", it comes with a recommended UK retail price of £130.

John Carmack updated his .plan with word that the next version of Q3Test will be the full demo version, including bots and a new level.

Fargo has posted a joke editorial called "The Ad Police Are Here" on GameSpy.com, taking a look at dodgy computer game adverts.

For those of you with phat rips of bandwidth™ there's a new Nocturne demo out. Weighing in at a rather obese 121Mb, this one works with 3dfx cards, and "should be a better representation of the final game". Grab it from those gigabyte bandits at 3D Files

According to this story on GameSpot UK, "Tomb Raider 4 : The Last Revelation" will feature a training level in which you play Lara Croft as a pig-tailed sixteen year old girl. Dirty old men in trenchcoats have already been spotted massing outside Electronics Boutique, waiting for the game's release.

That's D for Dreamcast of course - Sega's new console is now on sale across Europe! Some stores even opened at midnight to get a headstart, and there were already lines of people waiting to buy one. How sad is that? ;-)

For those of you who downloaded the 81Mb Nocturne demo only to find that it didn't work on your 3dfx card, there is now a 52Kb patch over on 3D Files that will get it working.

The infamous Mortyr from Poland's Mirage is finally due for release this month! According to a story on Mortyr.net the game will be going gold on Monday, and should be in stores across Europe by the end of the month. Still no word on an American release though, so for all those of you on the wrong side of the Atlantic ... :-p

There's a new issue of The Smoking Gun up today, with headline stories like "Sierra Kicks Out Band Of Babylon 5 Dorks", "Irrational Games Searching For Another Crappy Modeler", and "Everyone Pretends To Understand What Carmack is Saying"... Gaming humour at its best - check it out!

Over the last few years the gaming industry has been hit by a revolution. The rapid rise of the internet has opened up a whole new world of opportunity, from e-commerce to multiplayer gaming.

Those nice folks over at Adventure Gamer (no relation) continue in their efforts to review every adventure game ever made, this week taking a look at Versailles 1685, a 3D adventure game from French developer Cryo.

Ever wanted to drive the wrong way round the M25 at 100mph? Now's your chance... The unlikely sounding "M25 Racer" lets you drive like a mad man around the British countryside, as well as the M25 itself of course. The game's developers have just released this movie of the game in action over at 3D Files, so all you boy racers out there should probably check it out...

For those of you interested in such things, Appeal have posted an article " Outcast: Programming Towards a Design Aesthetic", all about Outcast and how its funky voxel graphics engine works.

I spotted over on GA-Source that work is now underway on a computer game based on the classic Evil Dead movies. Full details here.

After yesterday's Lara Croft bonanza, today it's the turn of Wheel Of Time. GameSpot UK have dumped over 100 Wheel Of Time screenshots on their site, enough to rebuild the entire game from scratch practically...

According to this story on the Adrenaline Vault, London's The Playing Fields will be hosting a qualifier for The Frag 3 on October 22nd.

Well, as good as. GameSpot UK have shovelled out 105 new screenshots of "Tomb Raider : The Last Revelation"!

My former employers over at the GameSpy Network have sunk to a new low with the opening of .. wait for it .. PlanetDeerHunter!

The Adrenaline Vault has posted a short story about Lionhead Studios, their recent deal with Activision, and how that whole studios thing works exactly.

Kulprit sent word of a Q3Test 3 vs 3 Invitational Tourney he's running at the big Frag 3 event in Dallas at the end of this month. At least one European clan has already signed up to travel over there and kick some American butt. :)

The Incredible Sgt Hulka has posted a resource specially for gaming weenies - a cheater's database packed full of cheat codes for over a hundred games, from Actua Soccer 3 to Ziriax. Nope, I've not heard of that one either...

It looks like 3dfx's latest reference drivers don't like the Codename Eagle demo which was released yesterday.

My review copy of Interplay's new space combat game Freespace 2 arrived this morning, along with a press release announcing that the game will be shipping here in Europe on Friday! We'll be bringing you a full review of the game next week, by which time it should have arrived in stores... Keep 'em peeled!

This week we've got an exclusive interview with Bob Wade for you here on EuroGamer. Bob was the co-founder of Binary Asylum, a small British developer that was forced to close down last month after their publisher cancelled their work on the promising 3D real time strategy game "Star Trek : New Worlds".

One of the most impressive games on show at ECTS this year was "Star Trek : New Worlds", a 3D real time strategy game created by a little known British company called Binary Asylum.

Our friends over at UK Gamer have just posted an interview with Colin MacDonald, producer of Grand Theft Auto 2. Three guesses as to what the interview is about.

(not to be confused with Geh Sauce) have posted the Codename Eagle demo, which weighs in at about 30Mb.

Start polishing your blackjacks! Thief Gold has just gone gold, and is due on shelves for October 19th.