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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

20 Oct
New Release Mac
Myth II to support 3D Hardware

Bungie Software¹s upcoming real-time strategy title Myth II: Soulblighter is shipping later this year, its presentation of a totally immersive fantasy world will be enhanced with the best hardware in the business. 3D graphics acceleration will be covered with native support for 3Dfx¹s Glide API and the recent addition of Microsoft¹s Direct 3D, which adds support for cards from ATI, Matrox, nVidia and Rendition, among others.

20 Oct
New Release
SimCity 3000 Interview

Game-Interviews.com posted an interview with Lucy Bradshaw, executive producer of SimCity 3000. They discuss , its changes, popularity, and a variety of other stuff.

20 Oct
New Release
Half-Life Release Date

Sierra Studios announced their upcoming 3D action thriller, Half-Life, one of the most anticipated titles of 1998, will be in stores by Thanksgiving weekend.

19 Oct
New Release
GamesCon Advisory Board Announed

GamesCon announces the formation of the GamesCon Advisory Board.

19 Oct
New Release
Hoyle Collections Released

Sierra Attractions takes everyone's favorite computer board and card games a step further with the launch of the two best Hoyle collections yet.

19 Oct
New Release
GameStorm on Microsoft CD

Kesmai Corporation today said that the company's online games service, GameStorm, will be represented on Microsoft's Games Sampler CD to be shipped with new Windows 98 PCs.

19 Oct
New Release Arcade
Plane Crazy Available

SegaSoft Networks has cleared the runways for takeoff with Plane Crazy.

19 Oct
New Release
Ants on MSN Gaming Zone

Microsoft said that Ants, a free, Internet-based multiplayer strategy game in which gamers compete against each other as ants, is available for free download and play on the MSN Gaming Zone.

19 Oct
New Release
Intense 3D Wildcat 4000 Shipped

Intergraph Computer Systems today said that its revolutionary Wildcat 3D Graphics Technology, announced at SIGGRAPH in July, is delivering ahead of schedule with the company's new Intense 3D Wildcat 4000 graphics accelerator.