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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.

November 1998

13 Nov
Hardware
Game Developers Conference Speakers Announced

The 13th Annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) announced an industry line-up of more than 250 speakers for the 1999 conference at the San Jose Convention Center, March 15-19.

13 Nov
New Release
Total Annihilation Commander Pack in Stores

Cavedog Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GT Interactive Software, today announced the release of the Total Annihilation Commander Pack, which hits stores today in time for the holiday season.

13 Nov
New Release
Shogo Sells over 100,000 Units

Shogo : Mobile Armor Division, the anime-influenced first-person shooter, has shipped over 100,000 units, making it one of the first big hits of the holiday gaming season.

13 Nov
Deals
Dukeworld Holiday Giveaway ’98

In the spirit of the holidays, Dukeworld has arranged its first annual holiday giveaway with a little help from our great sponsors.

12 Nov
New Release Windows 95/98
The Ultimate Wizardry Archives Released

Interplay Entertainment, today announced the release of a compilation of the Wizardry role-playing game (RPG) titles under license from SirTech, on CD-ROM for Windows95/98-based computers.

12 Nov
New Release
PGL Season Three Coverage

PlanetQuake has done it again, this time bringing you the best live coverage of the Season Three PGL Finals in San Francisco.

12 Nov
New Release
Digital Anvil Web Site

Following Tuesday's announcement in which three Digital Anvil games were unveiled, Microsoft today launched the official Web site for the three highlighted products.

12 Nov
New Release Arcade
Centipede in Stores

The bugs are back and they're bad to the bone in Hasbro Interactive's Centipedegame, the legendary Atari game from the 80s that has been revived and updated for the PC.

12 Nov
New Release
Gestalt Interview

Converted^2 has put up an interview with Gestalt. For those that haven't heard of him before, he is the leader of the highly sucessful Quake 2 modification team, The Coven.