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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

07 Aug
New Release
CyberMax Official Computer of PGL

CyberMax Computer, Inc, a directvendor of award winning, high quality personal computers, now has announced thatit has been named the official computer of the AMD Professional.

07 Aug
New Release
Rise of Rome Official Web Site Announced

Microsoft now has announced that the official website dedicated to the Rise of Rome, the expansion pack to the award-winning, top-selling Age of Empires, is now online here.

07 Aug
New Release
Tanarus on Zone Announced

Microsoft has announced that the new premium game Tanarus, a futuristic multiplayer combat tank game, is officially launched on the Internet Gaming Zone.

07 Aug
New Release
Chris Taylor Interivew

GameSpot did an interview with Chris Taylor, formerly of Cavedog Entertainment. They talk about his recentlty anounced Gas Powered Games.

06 Aug
New Release
Messiah Info

Gamer's Alliance have got their hands on the first part of the story, the prolouge for Team Ego's upcoming 3D Action shooter, Messiah.

06 Aug
New Release
Half-Life E3 Mpeg

Contaminated.net, has got Half-Life Mpeg from E3, which Valve sent them. The Mpeg is from the E3 Half-Life demo.

06 Aug
New Release
FireTeam Beta 2.1 CD is Gold

The FireTeam Beta 2.1 CD has been burned and sent to manufacturingtoday. With Beta 2.1, the number of FireTeam testers grows to over 2000 testers.

06 Aug
New Release
Chris Taylor Interview

Ken Liang from GamePen for letting me know that Desslock's RPG News did an interview with Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor about hisnew company, game design philosophy, and upcoming 3D multi-perspectivesingle-player/multi-player role-playing game to be published by Microsoft.Chris Taylor was the lead designer of the award-winning real-time strategygame Total Annihilation.

06 Aug
New Release
Sound Blaster Live Ships

Creative Technology Ltd., the world's leading provider of multimedia products for thePC, now has announced the company has begun shipping Sound Blaster Live!,the most powerful.