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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

13 Aug
New Release
Heretic II Water Effects

Phoebus for letting me know, on Activision's Heretic II site, that Dan Freed, Project Administrator on Heretic II talks about new water effects In Heretic II.

13 Aug
New Release
PGL Season 3 Announced

Spotted in the GameNews-WIRE that The AMD Professional Gamers' League (PGL) now has announced that Season 3 registration is now open, and that the league's prize pool has been.

13 Aug
New Release
Age of Empires 2 Rendering

My good friend MonkeyBoy from KeepShooting (be sure to check out his site) let me know he got his hands on an exclusive artist 3d rendering of a present Age of Empires 2: Age.

13 Aug
New Release
Ares Rising Demo

iMAGINE Studios has announced now that the interactive demo for their front line space combat simulator, Ares Rising, has been upgraded to include the optimized final version.

13 Aug
New Release
Blood 2 Wallpaper

Monolith a new Blood 2 Wallpaper on the official Blood 2 website, which is an incredible pic of Gabriella.

13 Aug
New Release
Daikatana AVI

Daikatana.com has posted the first of two Daikatana video trailers in their Downloads section. The first clip was made by Jake Hughes for ION Storm’s office-warming party this past February.

13 Aug
New Release
Urban Assault Trial Version

Microsoft has announced now that the trial version of Urban Assault is available now on the official Urban Assault website.

12 Aug
New Release
Klingon Honor Guard Movie

Reported by Unreal Nation that Microprose now has released a 26MB movie showing gameplay footage from Klingon Honor Guard, which is based on their Unreal engine.

12 Aug
New Release
Baldur’s Gate Online Chat

Wanna ask the designers a few questions of your own, then stop by on their exclusive chat with the BG Designers at Bioware. 12th, 8:00pm EST Where: #3dgaming on 3dnet (ritual.3dnet.net, irc.planetquake.com) It is not the same as playing the thing, but in 1998 every new shot, chat log, and developer quote is enough to keep the hype machine fed for another day.