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October 1998
215 posts · Newest first · ← All NewsLucasArts Entertainment reminds gamers that Grim Fandango, the morbidly amazing 3D adventure from the creator of Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle, has been released to manufacturing.
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.
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.
HEAT.NET, the free online gaming service with the largest selection of games, is about to be engulfed in Hellcamp II: Fall Frenzy.
The trial version of Microsoft's Pinball Arcade is available for download.
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.
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.
Doom Nation posted a log of the glDoom IRC chat with Bruce Lewis. Alot of good glDoom info is discussed.
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.
Doom Nation has started their Doom2 All-Star Tournament Section, which will cover the upcoming all-star tourney at the Frag 2.