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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.
Creative Technology has the latest July 1999 move: Creative ships 32MB 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2. Creative Technology says the availability of it's 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 graphics accelerator.
Diamond Multimedia Systems, a leader in PC multimedia and Internet connectivity, Tuesday says the shipment of the new PCI version of the Stealth III S540.
Red Storm Entertainment has intensified its external development efforts by naming Kevin Perry, former producer and game designer for the company, as U.S. external development.