A click friendly Descent 3 review is up over at ATFW featuring a butt-load of screenshots.

UGN3D is up to their usual preview with quotes, this time it's Freelancer.

Steve's (still) out somewhere doing something that he assures me is perfectly legal this time.

3pm update: Yup, it's definitely "legal" (at least in Texas ;). Don't know how many of you dug Age of Empires, but here's a link to the AoE2 beta contest.

Gamespot UK gets their "hands on" (but short) preview of Unreal Tournament- which is hopefully just around the corner, and relatively playable with all the patch work that the Epic team has been working on for a long, long time. Thanks VE.

Singularity pits the three "bipedal robot" games together in a little war, comparing Mechwarrior 3, Heavy Gear 2, and Starsiege. They compare the usual graphics, gameplay, controls, and multiplayer facets.

3DGaming.net has a new preview (they call them "Tomorrowland") on Starlancer, Descent Freespace 2, and Babylon 5.

There are 48 new in-game screenshots of Homeworld, that cool 3d strategy game in space, over at Gamewire.

UGN3D previews C&C: Tiberian Sun, the RTS that has a lot of people waiting for quite a while.

The new IOTD for the day is enough to make any parent proud. The little girl is just tellin it like it is. Think you're captain funny guy and got a caption? Enter the caption contest and win a date with Britney Spears!

The IOTD contest for yesterday can only be classified as a bomb. Oh well. We'll just act like that one never happened ok? We'll give it to klamer though for "Microsoft Lazyass 99 hits the shelves! [Click here to download, install, reboot, configure, reboot, troubleshoot, and reboot.] "Here is a list of all the entries.

Here is the previous two IOTD's ojham.jpg (captions) ddteapot.jpg (captions) rat.jpg (captions) bear.jpg (captions) and For now you can just check out this link for the index of all the previous IOTD stuff until I finish my work on the thumbnails etc. Which I'm incredibly good at putting off.

Well, as a number of you guys have noticed the Fingershack.com page is now live and operational thanks to Jack. A few more tweaks needed to be made before I traffic that way in large quantities but its looking solid now. The page design as well as this front page are going under the knife thanks to Anders Hammervald in the near future which should make things much more appealing to the eye. If you guys come across any major bugs feel free to drop myself or Jack an email. Make sure and give that search engine a whirl, it's pretty nifty.

The latest edition of the wack-ass links have been posted for your browsing pleasure. As always just drop me some email with your latest links and of course tell me if you wish to be credited for the links or not.

The new IOTD today is a bit of a trip to computer geek fantasy island, except there are no midgets and old dudes in white suits. Think you're captain funny guy and got a caption? Enter the caption contest and win a big wet one from my neighbor!

The winner for the IOTD contest for the last contest goes to Xavoc for being totally non-pc: "Nicole, the other white meat". Ouch.. I didnt write that he did! Here is a list of all the entries.

Here is the previous two IOTD's ddteapot.jpg (captions) rat.jpg (captions) bear.jpg (captions) and For now you can just check out this link for the index of all the previous IOTD stuff until I finish my work on the thumbnails etc. Which I'm incredibly good at putting off.

Check this out from Scott Miller's .plan update which should ruffle some feathers. Release the hounds!

This quote, from the Lead Programmer at UK game developer Elixir Studios (www.elixir-studios.co.uk), needs a broader audience:
Describing players of first-person action games like Quake in the July 1, '99 issue of GameWEEK (page 8), Demis Hassabis said:  "[They are] geeky bedroom teenage boys who want a sense of power and who need to feel above the law."

FYI, Elixir Studios has partnered with Eidos for their first three games, the first coming in 2000.  I for one am looking forward to playing their games as a diversion from my geeky teenage above-the-law power trip.

Sorry about those server hiccups earlier today, Things should be running smoothly now. Drop me some email if you guys find any crazy SQL errors here on the front page.

The new IOTD today is just asking for a caption Think you're captain funny guy and got a caption? Enter the caption contest and win a big wet one from my neighbor!

The winner for the IOTD contest for the last contest goes to tinker for: "You know what they say - big tail, big... ".  Here is a list of all the entries.

Here is the previous two IOTD's ddteapot.jpg (captions) bear.jpg (captions) and For now you can just check out this link for the index of all the previous IOTD stuff until I finish my work on the thumbnails etc. Which I'm incredibly good at putting off.

Sujoy has a write-up of the new Q3Test. Also, Oxygen Tankr plays host to an article by Zapaan which may get some of you newer members of the 3D gaming scene bent out of shape.

The crack boys are here- from their quickie department we're looking at some Heavy Metal FAKK2, Driver, and Monolith's Odium. Then they take the new Hidden and Dangerous demo for a spin. Finally they review a game that has Graeme Devine firmly hooked, Dungeon Keeper 2.

Exxtreme3d previews Freespace 2. (yep, that's it)

Ohh yea the new test is cool. Those big smoke puffs still get to me, but at least when you (or someone else) runs through 'em, they disappear. Am I the only guy that thinks American Pie is a big let-down? I mean you hear the media say that it was on the brink of being rated NC-17 or something, so you'd expect something for your money. What a typical movie :-| There's Something About Mary is far better. 

Go see South Park (again, if you have to). Now that was a blast.

Pretty big update..."and I'm spent" -Austin Powers, 1999

Some misc. things for you to check out while you sit there wondering when the heck is it gonna come out. The GA-Source guys have slapped up a few screenshots of the Monolith NOLF 007 spoof game that are appearing in PCGamer this month. The Road to QuakeCon has been updated by RadPipe with some chat with Levelord. Thanks loon