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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.

January 1999

05 Jan
New Release
Legal Crime sample comes to GameStorm

Kesmai Corporation and ENGAGE games today announced that a free sample of Legal Crime is now available on Kesmai's online games service, GameStorm.

05 Jan
New Release
HEAT.NET Strengthens Relationship With 3DO

HEAT.NET and The 3DO Company are joining forces again to feature four new, highly-anticipated titles on HEAT.NET.

05 Jan
Deals
SimCity Classic Free on the Web

Maxis, a division of Electronic Arts, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its multimillion-selling SimCity Classic game by making the groundbreaking metropolis-building game available on the Web free of charge.

05 Jan
New Release
Rage of Mages 2 announced

Monolith Productions announces the acquisition of Rage of Mages 2: Necromancer, the sequel to the innovative, Russian-developed RPG/strategy game, Rage of Mages, published by Monolith in October of 1998.

03 Jan
New Release
NHL 99 add-on posted

NHL '99 Add On has a new file out today, and PC gamers with itchy download fingers have something else to grab. NHL Online has gotten their hands on the World Juniors Hockey Championship pack add-on for NHL '99.

03 Jan
New Release
DarkWars Beta Test

A new RPG, DarkWars is looking for beta testers. DarkWars promises to be one of the best RPGs released for a long time, and is shaping up to be a brilliant game.

03 Jan
New Release
Warzone 2100 Shots

Zero Point has whipped up 18 new Warzone 2100 screenshots. Warzone 2100 is the new 3D RTS game from the folks over at Pumpkin Studios.

02 Jan
New Release
GamePC and EGN team up

Starting in January 1999, all GamePC machines will be shipped with the EnterNet Global Network(EGN) preinstalled, futhering GamePC's deliverance of great gaming rigs.

02 Jan
New Release
Battlezone 2 Column

Pandemic Times has posed it's first column titled "What We Know and What We Want".This column discusses some of the first known Battlezone 2 information and then goes into what we the gamers may be looking forward to.