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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 -

We've just posted our preview of Activision's line up for 2000, covering Dark Reign II, Soldier Of Fortune and Vampire : Redemption.

Although Activision once again spurned the crowded exhibition halls of ECTS this year, they were in London to demonstrate several of their games on Monday. Taking over the York Suite at the swanky Royal Garden Hotel must have cost them almost as much as a proper stand at ECTS would have done, but whatever their reasons it did at least give us a chance to check out some of their games in relative quiet.

FAKK2 is the game of the movie of the graphic novel, a third person action adventure game in which you control the scantily clad gun-toting Julia. So far, so Tomb Raider.

When I first heard about KISS : Psycho Circus I was rather dubious. I'm not a KISS fan, and the idea of a game based around them was pretty unappealing. You only have to look at Ed Hunter (the Iron Maiden game) or Queen : The Eye to see just how bad this kind of tie in can be. In fact, even the game's designers were "skeptical at first" when they were approached with the idea.

The Cyberathlete Professional League's director of tournaments, Mike Wardwell, has been interviewed over on Truegamers.

The new nVidia GeForce256 could be on store shelves within 30 days, it was announced this afternoon. Creative Labs will be retailing the next generation card at £199.

Grand Theft Auto was released .. ooh .. back when it was safe to leave your door unlocked at night, and you could wander down the middle of a road wearing an orange robe and banging a tambourine without fear of being run over by some homicidal maniac in a flash car.

Our live coverage from ECTS continues with a full report on Warcraft III, an in-depth look at Unreal Tournament, and previews of X-Com Alliance and Grand Theft Auto 2.

The days of the classic X-Com games - all low resolution tiles, sprites, isometric viewpoints and sedate turn based combat - are long since gone, thank god. These days it's all texture mapped polygons, coloured lighting and fast paced real time battles.