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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.

August 1998

17 Aug
New Release
Rainbow Six Demo Released

A new demo is out, or close enough to start watching the download sites like a hawk. PC Gamer has posted the Rainbow Six Demo.

17 Aug
New Release
EA purchasing Westwood Studios

Electronic Arts, the world's largest interactive entertainment software company, now has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase all outstanding stock of Westwood Studios, and certain other studio assets of Virgin Interactive Entertainment, a division of Spelling Entertainment Group, Inc The cash transaction is valued at $122.5 million.

17 Aug
New Release Arcade
Maxi Gamer 3D2 12MB Price Lowered

Guillemot International (GI) has lowered the price of its 12MB Maxi Gamer 3D2 graphics accelerator board to a market shattering $159.99, the company has announced now.

17 Aug
New Release
Urban Assault showing up in Stores

Microsoft has announced now that Urban Assault, an innovative combination of real time strategy and first person action, is starting to show up in stores.

16 Aug
New Release
Netscape Communicator 4.06 Released

This one is moving from rumor and preview talk into something players can actually get their hands on. Netscape Communicator 4.06 has been has released.

16 Aug
New Release
Winamp 1.92-SP1 Released

This one is moving from rumor and preview talk into something players can actually get their hands on. Being a big mp3 fan that I am, thought i would mention Nullsoft has has released Winamp 1.92-SP1.

15 Aug
New Release
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms Interview

TAKINGDOMS.COM has an exclusive interview with Clayton Kauzlaric, the lead designer of TA: Kingdoms .

15 Aug
New Release
Michelle Bagur Interview

Stormtroopers.com has posted an interview with ION Producer Michelle Bagur. Michelle is the producer for Deus Ex and both Daikatana and Daikatana II, and discusses her background and current situation.

15 Aug
Deals
FreeSpace Expansion Disk & Contest

Reported by the Volition website that Interplay has has announced the upcoming Descent: FreeSpace - Silent Threat, a 60-mission expansion disk for FreeSpace.