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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.

October 1998

26 Oct
New Release Windows 95/98
Fallout 2 Shipping

Black Isle Studios, the role- playing game (RPG) division of Interplay Entertainment announced the release of Fallout 2, the highly anticipated follow-up to the consensus choice for 1997 Role-Playing Game of the Year.

26 Oct
New Release
3DMark 99 Released

Futuremark Corporation today, released 3DMark 99 The Gamers’ Benchmark. 3DMark is the world’s first 3D benchmark that is aimed directly at the 3D gaming community.

26 Oct
New Release
Hellcamp II: Fall Frenzy

HEAT.NET, the free online gaming service with the largest selection of games, is about to be engulfed in Hellcamp II: Fall Frenzy.

26 Oct
New Release Arcade
Microsoft’s Pinball Arcade Trial Version

The trial version of Microsoft's Pinball Arcade is available for download.

26 Oct
New Release
Neophyte: The Spirit Master Demo Released

Alien Software said that in preparation for the December release of their upcoming game, Neophyte: The Spirit Master, that put out a demo highlighting our new engine.

25 Oct
New Release
Winamp 2.04 Released

Nullsoft put out Winamp 2.04. Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player. Winamp supports MP3, MP2, CD, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom interfaces called skins and audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins.

25 Oct
New Release
glDoom IRC Chat Log

Doom Nation posted a log of the glDoom IRC chat with Bruce Lewis. Alot of good glDoom info is discussed.

24 Oct
New Release
Shogo Alpha Patch Available

Monolith put out the ALPHA Patch for Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. The v1.1 Shogo ALPHA Patch greatly improves Shogo internet multiplayer play both over Modems and over other internet connections, such as Cable Modem, ISDN or T1 lines.

24 Oct
New Release
Jerry Wolski Interview

Doom Nation has started their Doom2 All-Star Tournament Section, which will cover the upcoming all-star tourney at the Frag 2.