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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

27 Sep
New Release
Unreal Beta 216 Patch

Epic MegaGames released the Unreal Beta 216 Patch. This version contains a lot of fixes and better infrastructure, but the low-bandwidth Internet play still isn't where they.

27 Sep
New Release
Homeworld interview posted

Computers R Us posted an interview with Alexander Garden over at Relic Entertainment. They talked about Homeworld and some personal stuff with him.

26 Sep
New Release
Rendition OpenGL ICD released

Rendition released the BETA 3 of the OpenGL ICD for their Rendition V2x00 boards. This ICD release provides full accelerated OpenGL support.

26 Sep
New Release
Colin McRae Rally Demo

More bits for the download pile. With this demo you can race at 3 stages, New Zealand, Australia and Monte Carlo.

26 Sep
New Release
Mark Rein interview posted

Planet Riva has posted an interview with Epic MegaGames' Mark Rein to discuss Unreal. Epic's Unreal quickly became one of the hottest titles of this year with incredible.

26 Sep
New Release
Shogo Demo Release on Oct 2nd

More bits for the download pile. So look for the release of the demo for Shogo: Mobile Armor Division this Friday. It may not be the biggest story of the month, but Shogo is exactly the sort of thing PC players are tracking right now.

25 Sep
New Release Windows 95/98
Winamp 2.01 released

Nullsoft released Winamp 2.01. Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/NT.

25 Sep
New Release
Half-Life interview posted

Here is another piece of the September 1998 PC gaming mess. WarZone posted an interview with the script writer for Half-Life, Marc Laidlaw from Valve Software.

25 Sep
Preservation
SIN Demo Re-Released

Ritual and Activison released the second version of the SiN Demo. The update to the demo contains bug fixes, the 16 bit software renderer, improved network and A3D support.