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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.

September 1998

14 Sep
Hardware
STB Velocity 4400 Drivers

The hardware race keeps getting louder. STB released new drivers for their Velocity 4400 graphics card.

14 Sep
New Release
Heavy Gear II Demo Soon

Activision is going to be releasing the Heavy Gear II Demo in October. Pilots get ready to engage in brutal stealth squad tactics and savage combat the week of October 11,.

14 Sep
New Release
Will Loconto interview posted

Stormtroopers posted a new interview over at Daikatana Cabana with Will Loconto. The Infernal Master Of Noise lets them know what we can expect in Daikatana's music, and how he.

14 Sep
New Release
Urban Warfare interview posted

SiN Post, part of GPN, has conducted an interview with Cal "Foo" Ounapuu, head of the Urban Warfare add-on for SiN. We talked about U.W. and some of features, weapons,.

13 Sep
New Release
4D Rulers hired New Artist

4D Rulers has announced they hired a artist last month, Chris Holden. Chris has been working hard on Gore at home for the last month while preparing to move there and work full.

13 Sep
New Release
Blood 2 Weekly Update 15

Monolith has updated the official Blood 2: The Choosen web site with weekly update 15. This week Rick Raymo, Blood 2's producer talks about the focus of Blood 2 and other cool.

12 Sep
New Release
Anachrochat Log

Here is another piece of the September 1998 PC gaming mess. For those of you who missed the Anachrochat last night with Tom Hall and the rest of the ION Storm team, Stormtroopers posted a log of the chat.

12 Sep
New Release
AOpen’s PA70 announced

AOpen is an expert in PC add-on card design and manufacture. Based on S3 newest Savage 3D/GX graphics technology, AOpen's PA70 is the first product to market.

12 Sep
New Release
New Baldur’s Gate screenshots posted

More bits for the download pile. Interplay released some new screenshots from Baldur's Gate. They have also put up a development update up on their website, which said that Bioware is almost done with the development of Baldur's Gate.