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Fueled by strategic partnerships with two leading broadband carriers, HEAT.NET, the fast, free online gaming service with the greatest selection of games, has roared into 1999, nearly doubling its total membership over the past three months. at the Game Developers Conference, HEAT.NET revealed its one-millionth member, making it one of the top three overall players in the online gaming arena, and the top service focusing on core PC game players.
Black Isle Studios, the role-playing game division of Interplay Entertainment and Resounding Technology revealed from the Game Developers Conference that Black Isle Studios has licensed Resounding's Roger Wilco Internet voice communication software and will bring it in the Baldur's Gate adventure pack add-on, Tales of the Sword Coast.
Climb into the cockpit and get your trigger finger ready for Flight Combat: Thunder Over Europe, a WWII air combat simulation where gamers experience the life and death struggle that was air combat over Europe in the 1940's.
In anticipation of Battlezone II's late summer release, Activision and Pandemic Studios are launching a web site dedicated to giving gamers up-to-date information on the development of Battlezone II.
Activision is pleased to announce that a Civilization: Call to Power code release candidate has been submitted for final approval to the company's quality assurance department.
Gamers get ready for an all new round of heart-pumping action with the release of Raven Software's Heretic II Enhancement Pack, available on the Activision web site.
March 16, 1999: Creative Labs introduced EAX 3.0, a new version of its popular Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX) application programming interface (API) for developers.
Electronic Arts says two of the company's recently published titles, Sim City 3000 and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri were February's top selling computer games according to Reston-based PC Data.
Electronic Arts says it is shipping Senior PGA Tour Golf for the PC.
March 16, 1999: VR-1 says its upcoming massively multiplayer game VR-1 Crossroads will be the first online-only game to incorporate Microsoft Direct Music API.