News.
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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.
AMD is shipping the K6-2E, the first dedicated embedded processor with 3DNow! and superscalar MMX, built on Socket 7 and Super7 infrastructure.
Interplay has shipped Kingpin: Life of Crime, Xatrix's Quake II-engine crime shooter with a Cypress Hill soundtrack, for Windows 95/98/NT.
Looking Glass' summer flight sim Flight Unlimited III features 10,000 square miles of satellite-sourced Seattle terrain, from Mt. Rainier to the Space Needle.