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PC Data says the Voodoo3 2000 and 3000 were May's two best-selling retail video cards, with 3dfx taking 37.6 percent of all boards sold.
Matrox closed fiscal 1998/99 with US$550 million in combined sales and a 23rd straight profitable year, with graphics board volume jumping from six to ten million units.
Radica Games has bought Leda Media Products, the UK's biggest third party controller supplier, for $14 million, with a US rollout of the LMP line set for January 2000.
The Coven's Deadlode II, a Team Fortress-style multiplayer mission pack for Quake II, arrives July 1 for $10 plus postage, sold direct.
3dnow.org has launched the Get 3DNow! campaign to push SIMD support into games and drivers, opening with a ten-day hardware sweepstake.
Monolith has released a playable demo of Rage of Mages II: Necromancer, the RPG and real-time strategy hybrid made with Nival.
Kasparov put the World team in check on move three of the MSN Gaming Zone match; the coaches are split on a reply, and voting runs until Saturday morning.
Half-Life Game of the Year Edition ships June 30 with new multiplayer content and Team Fortress Classic, after 40+ awards and a million copies sold.
Microsoft has released a free trial of Pandora's Box, the new puzzle game from Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, with eight puzzles across two cities.
Microsoft will build a game ratings blocker into next year's Windows, checking rating data embedded directly in the games themselves.