News.
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Psygnosis released an updated Drakan demo (v2b) with refined AI, arrow pickup, bug fixes, and Arokh's lightning attack, the last demo before the game ships.
Valve has released the Half-Life Uplink demo as a 10.4 MB mod that reuses installed game files, down from the 50 MB standalone download.
Xatrix has finished Kingpin and sent it off to manufacturing after 13 months of work. The shooter should be in stores by the end of June.
Activision and Pandemic Studios launched the official Dark Reign 2 site with news, screenshots, interviews, and faction sub-sites ahead of a winter '99 release.
The MSN Gaming Zone crowned four Chess Challenge winners, the grand prize taking $2500 and a Kasparov-signed set, ahead of the June 21 Kasparov vs. The World match.
Barracuda acquired worldwide rights to CyberFlix's Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, which has sold nearly a million copies and was 1998's sixth best-selling PC game.
Barracuda signed a three-year deal with Dice Computer Games to distribute the adventure game Timelapse in over a dozen European countries starting this June.
Pre-order Tiberian Sun from Babbage's, EB, or EA's order line and get a numbered silver-foil collector's edition with a signed manual and pewter figurine.
Female Frag Fest '99 is a women-only, CPL-sanctioned Quake II tournament on HEAT.NET, sponsored by Logitech and open to players 18 and over in the U.S. and Canada.
Monolith's Rage of Mages II: Necromancer hits U.S. stores in September with 43 branching missions, 16-player multiplayer, and server-side anti-cheat.