Est. 1998
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Release dates, announcements, and anything else worth noting. No PR fluff, no embargoed opinions. If it matters to people who actually play the games, it's here.

July 1998

21 Jul
New Release
IcePick Games 3D Engine

IcePick Games announced that the first of three PC titles currently in development will use a "post state-of-the-art" 3D engine.

21 Jul
New Release
CPL Event Featured in Dallas Morning News

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: CPL Event Featured in Dallas Morning News. The upcoming CPL Event has been featured in today's Dallas Morning News.

21 Jul
New Release
3D Realms Video History

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: 3D Realms Video History. Joe Siegler found a old video of Apogee history.

21 Jul
Hardware Windows 95/98
Matrox Unified Windows 98 Driver Released

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: Matrox Unified Windows 98 Driver Released. Matrox put out a new verison of their Unified Windows 98 Driver.

21 Jul
New Release
GameSpy 2.02 Released

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: GameSpy 2.02 Released. GameSpy 2.02 has been released. Lots of new features were added, including whole bundle of new options to tweak your setup and in-game performance.

21 Jul
New Release
Heavy Gear II AVI

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: Heavy Gear II AVI. avi file that was shown at E3 in Atlanta. The gameplay is interspliced with a few clips from the game's cutscenes.

21 Jul
New Release
Thrusmaster to Unveil Fragmaster at CPL Event

ThrustMaster, a leading manufacturer of game controllers for PC-based entertainment announced the special preview of their new first person shooter control - the Frag...

21 Jul
New Release
Game Textures CD

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: Game Textures CD. Crack dot Com released Game Textures CD today for sale.

20 Jul
New Release
SoR Designer Diary #1

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: SoR Designer Diary #1. Follow along as they go from empty world to a fully realized Data Fortress.