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Sgt Hulka is hosting a Homeworld launch party which will be broadcasting over Shoutcast tonight. If you've been living under a large igneous formation for the last few years, Homeworld is a 3D real time strategy game set in deep space. Full details at Hulka's place.

This week's Unreal Tournament map of the week over on the official UT website is my favourite CTF map, Facing Worlds. I'll be the one camping on top of the tower with a sniper rifle...

This week's EuroGamer review takes a look at Shadow Man, the new third person voodoo fest from Acclaim. If you can stop sticking pins in your Jar Jar doll for a few minutes, be sure to check out our review to find out whether it's as good as it sounds...

Probably best known for last year's Sin, the tribesmen over at Ritual are now working on a new brew. Based on the forthcoming movie of the same name, "Heavy Metal : FAKK2" is a third person action-adventure game using the Quake III engine, and is due for release next spring.

The full Unreal Tournament demo (with support for Direct 3D, OpenGL, and kitchen sinks as well as Glide) has been released. If you have the bandwidth to handle the 55Mb download, you can grab a copy from any of the following sites -

PC Zone sent word that they've posted the demo for Pharoah on their website.

In the last year or so the UK Quake scene has picked up significantly. Living in the US, it is not unusual to see more and more news on the bigger news sites coming from the UK.

Here's another exclusive Slave Zero shot from the nice folks at Infogrames -

Our first EuroGamer mailbag has been posted, featuring feedback on our coverage of ECTS and the UKPCGC finals. If you have something you want to share with the world or comments about something you've read on EuroGamer, drop me a line! After all, it's a pretty dull mailbag without any mails.

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Microsoft officially released DirectX 7.0 last night. The new version adds support for hardware T&L acceleration, environment mapping, improved 3D sound support, and the proverbial much more.

The Grand Theft Auto 2 demo is now available! Head over to the demo downloads page on the official GTA2 website to grab yourself a copy.

Looks like my comment of "we'll be lucky to see it before next year" in our Napalm preview was spot on after all - 3dfx have just confirmed that the card won't be out until February or March.

Rumours that Freespace 2 has gone gold (as reported on Blue's News) are apparently just that .. rumours. Virgin Interactive, who are publishing the game in Europe, have told us the game is definitely not gold yet, and that the European release date is early November.

The original Battlezone was amongst the first wave of action-strategy hybrids, but despite getting rave reviews its sales were disappointing.

According to this story on The Register, Freeserve will begin testing ADSL in the UK in November. Still no word on how widespread the trial will be or when the full service will go live, but it's more good news for British gamers...

Mat Bettinson updated his column over on UKGamer at 4am last night with a short piece appropriately titled "Drunken rant". Be warned, this contains strong language and is not for the easily offended, especially Everquest fanatics...

As well as our own uber-coverage, you can also find news from the UKPCGC finals at the following places -

We've just posted our massive coverage of the UK PC Gaming Championship finals, which took place on Saturday at The Playing Fields in London.

UKPCGC - try saying that after a few beers...

According to this post on an investor's messageboard (spotted by Voodoo Extreme), 3dfx's next graphics card (code-named Napalm) might not make it out this year after all.

If you're wondering why it was so quiet yesterday, I was away at the finals of the UK PC Gaming Championships in London all day. We'll be bringing you some huuuuuuge coverage of the event on Monday, so be sure to come back soon!

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: