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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.

March 1999

15 Mar
New Release
Civilization: Call to Power Delayed

March 15, 1999: Activision would like to announce that the release date for Civilization: Call to Power has been pushed back two weeks to March 30th.

15 Mar
New Release
St. Patrick’s Day and SimCity 3000

St. Patrick's Day and SimCity 3000 hits the March 1999 news desk on March 15, 1999.

14 Mar
Hardware
Canopus stopping Production

March 14, 1999: Canopus has officially said that the Spectra 2500, Pure 3D and Pure 3D II line of graphics cards are no longer in production.

14 Mar
New Release
Midnight Madness Beta Signup

March 14, 1999: Beta Bites let me know that Microsoft is having a Midnight Madness Beta sign-up, where 200 lucky gamers will be randomly selected on March 17th, St.

12 Mar
New Release
BC:3020AD to use RTIME Interactive Networking Engine

BC:3020AD is the third title in the industry's most advanced space flight simulation game series that allows Commanders to exist in a detailed virtual universe as they trade, combat and explore the far reaches of space, planets and moons, as well as interact with highly advanced Artificial Intelligence controlled.

12 Mar
New Release
Sandbox Studios Partners Program Announced

Sandbox Studios announces its Sandbox Studios Partners Program, a unique development partnership program that can take a game from concept to completion in as little as three months.

12 Mar
New Release
Daikatana Deathmatch Demo Released

March 12, 1999: Mplayer.com, Eidos Interactive, and Ion Storm have put out the Daikatana Deathmatch Demo.

12 Mar
New Release
Asheron’s Call Movie Trailer Released

March 12, 1999: Microsoft and Turbine Entertainment revealed the debut of the first comprehensive sneak preview of their upcoming massively multiplayer RPG, Asheron's Call.

11 Mar
New Release
FGN signs with Cybereps

March 11, 1999: Future Games Network says it has officially signed with Cybereps, the leading direct advertising and company on the web.