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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

27 Nov
New Release
Descent 3 Demo Released

Interplay has released thee Descent 3 Demo in the UK magazine, PC Format. This demo will give you a taste of what Descent 3 is all about.

26 Nov
New Release
Happy Thanksgiving

POCG and its staff would like to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving today.

26 Nov
New Release
Army Men II Interview

ActionXtreme has put up an interview with Nick Earl, who is well known for producing Army Men as well as the upcoming title Army Men II.

26 Nov
Hardware
New Matrox MGA-G200 Drivers Released

Matrox has released a new driver for the Matrox MGA-G200. This driver is the same is the 4.50beta2 and it fixes the recent problems with Half-Life.

25 Nov
New Release
Battlefield Communicator V1.1 Released

ShadowFactor has released Battlefield Communicator V1.1. This new version contains several new features, including channels push to talk, hotkeys, increased performance, reduced latency and much more.

25 Nov
New Release
Quake King of the Hill Tournament

Each Saturday, Actionxtreme.com host a one night tournament on mplayer.com where the top 4 players qualify for the Quake "Best of the Best" Tournament to be held on December 19th.

25 Nov
New Release
GameStorm in Asia

Kesmai Corporationand Singapore-based Acer Computer International (ACI) today announced an alliance to make a selection of titles from Kesmai's online games service, GameStorm available via ACI's CoolHot Web site.

25 Nov
New Release
SiN Readme Now Online

HardCorps has pyt the full SiN Readme, straight from the retail version online for your perusal.

25 Nov
New Release
Interplay Sports Introduced

Interplay Entertainment, today unveiled a new name, look, and philosophy for its sports division, Interplay Sports.