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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

02 Sep
New Release
AMEN: The Awakening interview posted

CaveNews has posted an interview with Greg MacMartin, project leader for AMEN: The Awakening. In the interview they've uncovered some new info about multiplayer and editing, as.

02 Sep
New Release
Half-Life Preview

sCary's Shack has posted a Half-Life Preview that he has been working on for a few weeks. sCary gives his impressions, feelings, and expectations of Half-Life from Valve.

02 Sep
New Release
Creative LivingWare Program

Also announced is Creative's new "LivingWare" program designed to provide Sound Blaster Live! and Sound Blaster Live! Value customers with the latest audio technology.

02 Sep
New Release
Sound Blaster Live! Value announced

Creative announced it's newest audio card, Sound Blaster Live! Value at the exceptionally low price of $US99.99.

02 Sep
New Release
Dune 2000 goes gold

The hardware race keeps getting louder. Even though we mentioned this last week, Westwood Studios said the eagerly anticipated Dune 2000 has "gone gold" in advance of its early September ship date.

02 Sep
Industry
Microsoft and Interactive Magic Partnership

Microsoft, the world's leader in software for personal computers and Interactive Magic, developer and publisher of Internet, online and CD ROM games, announced they have begun.

02 Sep
New Release
Team17 at ECTS

Team17 Software are pleased to announce that they will be showing seven new games at the ECTS show this September. Visitors to the show will be treated to interactive.

02 Sep
New Release
DEF-CON Online Gaming Service

DEF-CON, which is a new online gaming service has started its 30 day free trial period for everyone and best of all you dont have to give a credit card like the other networks.

02 Sep
New Release
Heavy Gear II Site Update

Activision's Heavy Gear II has been updated. The update mentions that Heavy Gear II is the cover story of the October PC Games magazine.