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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.

April 1999

05 Apr
Hardware
AMD-K6-2 475-MHz Processor Announced

AMD-K6-2 475-MHz Processor made news on April 5, 1999, with AMD today revealed the introduction of its 475-MHz AMD-K6-2 processor with 3DNow!

05 Apr
New Release
Elysium Development Stopped

Cavedog Entertainment announces it has decided to stop development of Elysium and is reassigning its talented team members to other projects.

05 Apr
New Release
Civilization: Call to Power in Stores

Civilization: Call to Power made news on April 5, 1999, with Activision's Civilization: Call to Power is available for the PC.

05 Apr
New Release
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Racing Released

Sierra On-Line today revealed the release of NASCAR Craftsman Truck Racing, the latest version in its NASCAR family of racing simulations.

05 Apr
New Release
Homeworld Website Launched

Homeworld Website is moving on the business side today, because apparently the games industry cannot go five minutes without someone buying, signing, or reorganizing something.

05 Apr
New Release
Baseball 2000 gone Gold

Baseball 2000 made news on April 5, 1999, with Microsoft today revealed that Baseball 2000 has wrapped development and gone gold.

03 Apr
New Release
SiN 1.04 Patch inlcuding CTF Released

Saw on Ritualistic that Ritual has put out SiN 1.04 patch including CTF, the variation on regular Deathmatch play that gives meaning to base defense along with offensive tactics.

02 Apr
New Release
Imperialism II Chat Event

SidGames.Com is going to be having a live online chat event with the designers of Imperialism II, Bill Spieth and Ben Polk on #SGImperialism on irc.dal.net at 2:00 EST today.

02 Apr
New Release
StarCraft Tournament Season 1 Ended

The first leg on the road to Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft: Brood War World Championships came to a close last night with the conclusion of the tournament's Season 1 competition over Battle.net.