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The last couple of years have been pretty depressing for gamers, overtaken by a horde of mostly substandard Quake, Tomb Raider and Red Alert clones.

For some wholesome retro gaming with a nice 3D sheen, check out Tron 3D. It's a little (520Kb) freeware OpenGL game inspired by the light bikes scene from Tron.

David Perry of Shiny sent over these exclusive screenshots of third person cherub 'em up Messiah. Enjoy!

This week's EuroGamer mailbag is now up, featuring feedback on our X : Beyond The Frontier review and our Binary Asylum interview, as well as the usual crank mail and random abuse.

Activision have been giving out some of the good stuff, with three new shots of Quake 3 Arena appearing on Well-Rounded Entertainment and no less than six more on the Adrenaline Vault.

*Insert generic Lara Croft joke here*

Or something like that... Blast Pit have posted an interview with one of the level designers working on Nerf Arena Blast, a deathmatch game with no death.

Eidos today announced that "Championship Manager 3 : Season 1999/2000" will be released in December. This new version features the original CM3 with a whole bunch of tweaks and tucks, plus all the data for the new football season.

This week's EuroGamer review takes a critical look at X : Beyond The Frontier, a shameless Elite clone that misses the mark in spectacular fashion. Slow, dull, tedious, overblown, unrewarding and generally boring.

There are six more out takes over on the Outcast website. These little MPG movie files feature clips that you won't see in Outcast, including all kinds of things going wrong and arguments between the cast and director.

This week's EuroGamer interview is "From Paperboy To Messiah", talking with David Perry of Shiny.

has been part of the gaming industry since he was a teenager, back in the days when most games appeared as several pages of code printed in a magazine.

"People in Europe have a life". Yes, it's official. The managing director of Yahoo! Europe said it, so it must be true. Check this story on The Register for the full scoop.

There's a new version of the Unreal Tournament demo available. It's available as a 55Mb download for those of you who haven't tried UT yet, or a 9Mb patch for the rest of us.

A couple of years ago I posted an April Fool's joke on my website about a company releasing "Pong 2000", a 3D accelerated version of the classic two-bats-and-a-ball computer game.

This week's preview here on EuroGamer takes a peek at Faust, a bizarre adventure game from French publisher Cryo, loosely based on the legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil.

"A devilish adventure game constructed as seven stories around the theme of Temptation", inspired by the legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil?

There will not be a Frag 3 Qualifier at UK games cafe The Playing Fields this weekend, although there will be an announcement in two weeks about a qualifying event for the March 2000 CPL championships.

The teams taking part in the 3 vs 3 Q3Test invitational at the big Frag 3 tourney in Dallas later this month have been announced.

Those strange people over at GameSpy.com have posted an article listing the "Top Ten Rooms Full of Crates" in PC games.

Our friends at Adventure Gamer have got hold of a couple of interesting news stories today...

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.