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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

14 Apr
New Release Arcade
High Heat Baseball 2000 on HEAT.NET

The boys of summer are back and ready to play ball on HEAT.NET with the introduction of High Heat Baseball 2000.

14 Apr
Hardware
Quantum3D and 3dfx Form Exclusive Relationship

Quantum3D today revealed new product configurations at the 1999 International Training and Education Conference (ITEC ’99), in The Hague, The Netherlands, April 13th to 15th.

14 Apr
New Release
Blizzard to show Act III of Diablo II at E3

Blizzard Entertainment's unveiled today some new details about the status of Diablo II, the much-anticipated sequel to 1997's highly acclaimed role-playing game, Diablo.

14 Apr
Industry Arcade
Hasbro Interactive Acquires Rights To 11 Namco Titles

Hasbro Interactive Acquires Rights To 11 Namco Titles made news on April 14, 1999, with Hasbro Interactive today revealed it has reached an agreement with Namco Ltd.

14 Apr
New Release
Dark Side of the Moon DVD Announced

Responding to the calls of gamers who enjoyed Dark Side of the Moon but were looking for the title on a single disk, SouthPeak Interactive will release a DVD-ROM version of the well-liked Video Reality adventure game in May.The Dark Side of the Moon DVD-ROM will head to stores as part of a software bundle called Dark Side of the Moon Deluxe Edition that will also include the original six CD-ROM set and Prima's official strategy guide.

14 Apr
New Release
Starsiege Demo Released

Starsiege Demo made news on April 14, 1999, with Dynamix has put out the demo for Starsiege on and Gamecenter has an exclusive premiere.

14 Apr
New Release
Game Tool Technologies supports OpenPlane Technology

GTT is a leading developer of flight simulation utilities and add-ons. OpenPlane is an architecture that allows interested gamers, developers and third parties to modify and extend games that are based on the OpenPlane standard.

14 Apr
New Release
U.S. Navy using Microsoft Flight Simulator

U.S. Navy using Microsoft Flight Simulator is the story today, and it is the kind of late-April 1999 news blast that makes the pre-E3 season feel like someone kicked the hornet nest.

13 Apr
New Release
Railroad Tycoon II Expansion Pack gone Gold

Poptop Software has revealed on their web site that Railroad Tycoon II: The Second Century expansion pack has wrapped development and gone gold.