News.
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Acclaim Sports has signed BMX stars Dave Mirra and Ryan Nyquist to multi-year endorsement deals, with both riders consulting on an upcoming BMX video game.
SouthPeak's family side-scroller Animaniacs: A Gigantic Adventure is now playable through free multiplayer matchmaking on Microsoft's MSN Gaming Zone.
Logitech has elected Frank Gill, a 23-year Intel veteran who retired as executive vice president in 1998, to its board of directors.
QSound Labs and Mitsubishi Electric will build QSurround audio chips for stereo TVs and mini systems, with mass production slated for Q3 1999.
Motorsport Simulations announced SCCA Can-Am, an online and retail PC racing sim recreating the early-70s Can-Am series, due in early 2000.
Gamesville.com has launched Quick-Draw Poker, a free massively multiplayer poker game show with real time rounds every ten minutes and cash prizes up to $1,500.
Electronic Arts has begun shipping Dungeon Keeper 2, Bullfrog's sequel that puts you back in charge of the dungeon, rated M with a $39.95 MSRP.
Four veteran EA Tiburon artists behind Madden and NCAA Football have left to form The Ballistic Pixel Lab with EA alum Dave Mathieu as president.
Dynamix announced TRIBES Extreme, adding a single-player campaign and team training to Starsiege TRIBES, due this fall on CD-ROM for about $40.
Impressions Games has launched pharaoh1.com, the official site for its ancient Egypt city builder Pharaoh, with new screenshots ahead of a fall release on PC.