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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.

Windows 95/98

26 Oct
New Release Windows 95/98
Fallout 2 Shipping

Black Isle Studios, the role- playing game (RPG) division of Interplay Entertainment announced the release of Fallout 2, the highly anticipated follow-up to the consensus choice for 1997 Role-Playing Game of the Year.

26 Oct
New Release Windows 95/98
Grim Fandango in Stores

LucasArts Entertainment reminds gamers that Grim Fandango, the morbidly amazing 3D adventure from the creator of Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle, has been released to manufacturing.

23 Oct
New Release Windows 95/98
Vegas Games 2000 Shipped

The 3DO Company this week began shipment of Vegas Games 2000, the fifth title in the award-winning Vegas Games series.

14 Oct
New Release Windows 95/98
Klingon Honor Guard Available

Hasbro Interactive announced the launch of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Klingon Honor Guard.

08 Oct
New Release Windows 95/98
Descent: FreeSpace – Silent Threat Released

Interplay Entertainment said that an expansion disk for their top-selling space combat sim, Descent: FreeSpace -The Great War, hit retail shelves September 30, 1998.

01 Oct
New Release Windows 95/98
VR Baseball 2000 Shipped

VR Sports, the sports division of Interplay Entertainment, said that it shipped VR Baseball 2000 on Tuesday, September 29, 1998.

September 1998
25 Sep
New Release Windows 95/98
Winamp 2.01 released

Nullsoft released Winamp 2.01. Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/NT.

21 Sep
Hardware Windows 95/98
Diamond Announces Sonic Impact S90

Diamond Multimedia Systems announced the company's new Sonic Impact S90 audio accelerator. Diamond's Sonic Impact S90, powered with Aureal Semiconductor's Vortex/A3D 3D audio.

08 Sep
New Release Windows 95/98
Heart of Darkness ships

Tantrum, a division of Interplay Productions, announced the release of Heart of Darkness, the long awaited Amazing Studio creation that has turned the heads of major motion.