News.
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id Software has has the latest July 1999 move: Q3Test v1.06 released for Win32. id Software has released Q3Test v1.06 is only currently available for Win32 at present.
Ensemble Studios has the latest July 1999 move: Joe Ybarra joins Ensemble Studios. Ensemble Studios says it has hired game industry expert Joe Ybarra.
Bethesda Softworks will publish NIRA Intense Import Drag Racing, a fully-featured drag racing simulation from the makers of the award winning Hot Rod Magazine's Championship.
EA Australia, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts says the appointment of LucasArts industry veteran Steve Dauterman as General Manager of Studio Asia Pacific to head a new development studio located in Australia.
The event is scheduled for July 16-25, 1999 with over 5,000 people expected to attend. Playground '99 will show some of the latest titles in PC software and hardware.
Sierra Studios, Valve Software and WON.net says the Half-Life Mod Expo '99, an event designed to show a variety of user-made MODs for Half-Life, the PC CD-ROM named Game of the Year by more than 40 publications worldwide.
Terra Soft Solutions and Loki Entertainment Software announce a strategic alliance to bring best-selling PC games to Linux on PowerPC computers, in some cases before those same.
Dynamix, WON.net and Sierra Sports says the companies will show games at the inaugural Playground '99, the first consumer-based, regional tournament event to take place at nine.
WON.net says that its latest QuickGames creation, Wordox, has become an overnight sensation and earned the ranking of the fastest growing game on their site.
The summer HEAT's up as HEAT.NET continues its game precession, rolling out more exclusive products from the hottest publishers in the business.