News.
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Wicked3D put out Wicked3D 2.8 drivers for their Voodoo2 card. The new drivers fix the black screen problem when exiting certain D3D games.
Activison has officially code-released the Heretic II demo. If you previously downloaded the Heretic II demo the executable will expire in November, 1998.
Electronic Arts, the world's largest interactive entertainment software company, announces the extension of its publishing agreement with Firaxis Games, a Hunt Valley, Md.-based independent game developer, founded by Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds.
3D Labs put out new Permedia 2 drivers which include a new OpenGL Driver. The new drivers has a fix for the problem when simultaneously displaying 8 bit and 16 bit AVI files.
Diamond Multimedia put out new Monster Fusion Drivers. The drivers are the Monster Fusion Windows 9x Display Drivers version 4.10.01.0206.
The rules for the FRAG II Official CPL Quake2 one-on-one tournament have been updated. They added Extended Rules, by Frank Cabansky, which is a very detailed set of rules for the tournament.
Christian Antkow (Disruptor) has updated his .plan announcing the release of v3.20 Beta patch for Quake 2.
Red Storm Entertainment put out a Patch 1.03a for Rainbow Six. Patch 1.03a is not a major patch.
To celebrate the release of Activision/Raven's Heretic II Demo, HereticII.com will be hosting an online release party in #heretic2 on 3DNet IRC tomorrow, so drop in any time before 9:00pm Eastern.
Electronic Arts, the world's largest interactive entertainment software company, today announced it will soon release ESPN Digital Games' X Games Pro Boarder on the PC.