UGN3D has some  new screenshots of RedStorm Entertainments upcoming tank game Force21. (Same guys working on the sequel to Rainbow6) You can also have a look at the UGN3D preview of Experience which is pretty damn impressive to look at.

Billy over at VE has scored a pair of new screenshots of the Raven Software Quake3 engine based Star Trek: Elite Forces. Here ya go shot1 and shot2.

TacticalPlanet has slapped up a new shot of SpecOps2

The always fun fun-name maker for Quake3. You gotta have one right? Here is a web based util for you to mess around with and make your Quake3 name show up in all those pretty colors.

Version 2.13 of shareware GameSpy has been released. The new version features support for KingPin, Descent3 (updated) , Drakan, and fixes the directory name problems.

AVault has scored nine new screenshots of Nocturne from TRI.

The 10Questions with SamHell of the week is a interesting new feature with with Mike Fricker.  Who is Mike Fricker?   This is the guy that is doing the online-only freeware FPS called Exist.  This guy is single handedly designing an entire FPS game. How good is he? Well here are 3 screenshots. shot1 shot2 and shot3. Check it out:

Graphically, I think mine is on par with Q3Test, with the exception of radiosity and volumetric shadows on moving objects--I just haven't had time to get to those yet. Everything else is there. I haven't seen the latest from Epic yet, so I can't make a fair comparison with Unreal. I have dynamically tessellated curves (via LOD and framerate), specular / bump mapping and fast dynamic lights but, as far as I know id plans to implement those, if they haven't already.

AVault features a new interview with Mike Wilson, CEO over at Gathering of Developers.

Some follow up on that mass employee departure from LucasArts mentioned yesterday. Here you go a blurb from the guys at GamersVoice

A quick check of the LucasArts job postings shows that as of July 7, 1999 several development related positions were open, including 3D Modeler, Character Animator, Lead Artist, Lead Designer, Manager of Art, Texture Artist, Senior Programmer, PSX Programmer, Jr. Programmer, and Jr. Programmer-Installer

The homeboys at b4itsdone.com have scanned in a few new images of the Quake3 engine based FAKK2 game by Ritual Entertainment. You may recognize a few of the shots from the E3 demo, however a couple others might just surprise and impress ya.

Speedy3D has a nice new interview with the guys who worked on TreadMarks which we saw a "test demo" of released about a month ago I believe. You can check out the CGO preview of the game while you're at it.

The EDL results are in, and the final Quake2 matches were real nail biters. I actually checked out one of the demos of Makaveli beating Shub in sudden death overtime on Q2DM1.. Great stuff. Head on over to FPSGamer for the details and demos.

Ryan Feltrin of Xatrix Entertainment has a .plan update giving out all the details on just what you can expect to see in the patched version of KingPin which should be available shortly. Keep your eyes here and I'll have it as soon as it's available.

Whats up with that lighting in Vampires? Yeah we all know it looks pretty damn cool but TheMasquerade.org guys have word from level designer Steve Thomas at Nihilistic on just how cool it will actually be. Amazingly all the characters in Vampire will have shadows that are affected by multiple light sources. Yow.

Got a couple of console bits for you. Check out the I.AM.Half-Life page for a huge guide on just about anything you would want to do with the console for a number of games. Then head on over to ConsoleStats for their latest and greatest log parser / stats generator.

Speaking of guides, you can also have a look at the weapons guide that beN has posted at the OxygenTank.

For all you guys using the old trusty dial-up modem connections to the internet, this new page by orion might just be the ticket for getting you started on optimizing your playing experience online.

TacticalPlanet is at it again, grabbing some new screenshots of SpecOps2

GA-RPG has a boatload more screenshots of Blade.

PCParadox has a new interview with Rex Dickson, the lead producer/designer working on Revenant right now. The game looks like a sooped-up Diablo or something.