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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

28 Jul
New Release
Civilization: Call to Power site launches

Noted over at Warzone that the official Civilization: Call to Power site has opened over at Activision.

28 Jul
New Release
Blood 2 Interview and Screenshots

Gamehut has gotten a hold of FOUR exclusive Blood 2: The Chosen screenshots and an interview with Bill Vandervoot, level designer of Blood 2.

28 Jul
New Release
Vegas or Bust: Monster Truck Madness 2 Tournament

The Internet Gaming Zone and Microsoft announced that they are sponsoring the "Vegas or Bust" MTM2 Tournament, a two-day online extravaganza in which the top two finishers...

28 Jul
New Release
Heavy Gear II Screenshot

Phoebus let me know that Activision Heavy Gear II site posted a screenshot of one of the multiplayer Arena maps, in the Screenshots section of this site.

28 Jul
New Release Arcade
MS Revenge of Arcade gone Gold

Microsoft announced that Revenge of Arcade, a nostalgic homage to the early '80s arcade craze, has gone gold.

28 Jul
New Release
SiN Before Changes

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: SiN Before Changes. Mike Wardwell (Giggler) from Ritual Entertainment updated his.plan.

27 Jul
New Release
SiN Demo Mirrors

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: SiN Demo Mirrors. The SiN demo was released yesterday. Im still finding alot of the SiN Demo mirrors going really slow.

27 Jul
New Release
VoxWare Support in Diablo II

DiabloII.com just posted a new article on the use of new VoxWare technologies licensed by Blizzard Entertainment last year for Diablo II and their other titles in development.

27 Jul
New Release
SpecOps Scripting Language

July 1998 keeps moving, and today the headline is simple: SpecOps Scripting Language. SpecOps.org posted the beta of the SpecOps Scripting Language.