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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.

New Release

09 Mar
New Release
Maximum Overkill Announced

March 9, 1999: Nova Logic revealed plans to release a new, futuristic, first-person action game titled, Maximum Overkill.

09 Mar
New Release Tabletop
Silent Death Online Beta

March 9, 1999: Kesmai Corporation says its ship-to-ship combat title Silent Death Online is available in open beta through the company's popular online games service, Game Storm.

08 Mar
New Release
Star Trek: Voyager Game Officially Announced

Raven Software says it will be developing a Star Trek: Voyager game for Activision.

08 Mar
New Release
EA Online Registration Closes Tomorrow

March 8, 1999: Online registration for the Extreme Annihilation will close tomorrow, Tuesday, March 9 at 12:00 PM, CST.

08 Mar
New Release
EverQuest Pre-Sell Orders

Heralded by game reviewers as an extraordinary evolution in online role-playing games, Ever Quest packs in a multitude of adventures and quests that break the mold in the online role-playing game genre.

08 Mar
New Release
Asheron’s Call Movie and Interview

Following the unveiling of Asheron's Call with 3D-accelarated support at last week's Gamestock, Microsoft and the MSN Gaming Zone revealed the availability of a time-lapse Asheron's Call movie displaying the compelling day/night effects that a player will experience within the world of Dereth.

08 Mar
New Release
Kali 1.63 Released

Kali 1.63 has been put out. Kali is the world's largest Internet gaming network enabling Internet play of the most popular multiplayer games for over 250,000 players, on more than 600 servers in 65 countries.

06 Mar
New Release
Brainscan signs Harmless Games

March 6, 1999: Brainscan Development Corporation, has signed with Harmless Games, a California based company, for the right to publish the upcoming internet-only game Infantry.

06 Mar
New Release
BC3K v2.05 Released

March 6, 1999: Derek Smart the Designer/Lead Developer of the The Battlecruiser Series has put out Battlecruiser 3000AD v2.05.