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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

25 Sep
New Release
Maxi Gamer Phoenix ships

Guillemot announced it is the first to ship the VooDoo Banshee based Maxi Gamer Phoenix graphics accelerator card. This was made possible due to the close relationship between.

25 Sep
New Release
Thief: The Dark Project interview posted

Game-Interviews.com posted an interview with Greg LoPiccolo from Looking Glass who is the project leader of Thief: The Dark Project. Thief is an exciting first-person shooter.

25 Sep
New Release
Terminus interview posted

PCM&E has just put up a interview with Karthik Bala from Vicarious Visions which also includes some cool new screen shots of Terminus.

25 Sep
New Release
SiN Demo Patch

Ritual released the SiN Demo patch for people who downloaded the original SiN demo. This patch will contain updates which include bug fixes, the 16 bit software renderer,.

24 Sep
New Release
Starship Troopers on GameStorm

Kesmai Corporation said Starship Troopers: Battlespace is now live on the company's popular online games service, GameStorm. Developed by Mythic Entertainment and co-produced.

24 Sep
New Release
Panzer Elite announced

Panzer Elite, Psygnosis' new World War II tank simulation game, is poised to take the high ground as the most realistic tactical armored war game yet seen for PC CD-ROM. With.

24 Sep
New Release
Cabela’s Big Game Hunter II announced

More bits for the download pile. Cabela's Big Game Hunter II announced hit the wire today. Details are thin, but it belongs in the September 1998 pile.

24 Sep
Hardware
3Deep bundled with STB

Sonnetech, said STB Systems, is bundling 3Deep, the first gamma correction software for 3D games and graphics. Inaccurate gamma settings are responsible for the "washed out" or.

24 Sep
Preservation
SiN Demo re-release Soon

according to Sean Dunn, Activision's Producer on Sin, the Sin demo re-release is currently in the hands of the QA dept. at Activision. They are hoping to code release it today,.