News.
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January 1999
145 posts · Newest first · ← All NewsMicrosoft today announced that the trial version for Close Combat III: The Russian Front, entitled Prelude to Citadel, will be available for download this Friday, January 15 at the Close Combat III web site.
iGames. announced today an all-star tournament with the game Myth II: Soulblighter, developed by Bungie Software. The tournament is being held in 28 locations in the U.S.
(NBK) NetRadio Show #8 is up. If you've been waiting for a while, wait no longer! Pred and Mix play a little Half-Life while enjoying some good music.
Derek Smart let me know BC3K v2.0 is hard to find because quite simply, because Interplay did a conservative run.
Blue Byte Software today confirmed 500,000 units have been sold into retail stores worldwide. The Settlers III is the latest title in a tremendously popular series of games, which has already sold over 1 million copies.
Intel Corporation today announced the Intel Pentium III processor brand name for its next generation microprocessor code-named Katmai.
ATI Technologies today announced the RAGE XL and RAGE XC general purpose graphic accelerator chips.
Maxis, a division of Electronic Arts, today announced that it is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its multimillion-selling SimCity Classic game by making the groundbreaking metropolis-building simulation available on the Web free of charge.
3DNews Network has posted a new interview tied to Decay, and there is enough meat here for anyone tracking the PC scene in January 1999.
Monolith announced that BloodShot Entertainment, the group formerly known as "the Daikatana Team" has chosen the LithTech 3D Engine to bring their game vision to the gaming community.