News.
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.
The Cyberathlete Professional League will host the LAN rounds of the Descent 3 $50,000 Championship, with finals at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in August.
GameSpy's BeatDown 19 LAN party hits San Francisco July 16-18 with room for more than 200 players, its biggest yet. Registration closes June 12.
TEAC is shipping the fastest CD burner yet: an 8X-write, 24X-read SCSI-2 drive at $449 internal or $549 external, Adaptec adapter included.
Microsoft will donate $25,000 to Al Leiter's charity if the Mets pitcher hits a home run this season, part of its Baseball 2000 Home Run Challenge.
Microsoft has licensed flange, chorus, EQ, and reverb effects from Creative's EAX API and will build them into the next version of DirectX.
Ancient Conquest, the Greek mythology naval RTS from MegaMedia Australia and Re:Action Entertainment, ships to North American retail this week at $29.99.
Nullsoft's Winamp 2.23 brings back the controversial Nitrane MPEG decoder, restoring MP2 support and cutting CPU usage, plus a new MikMod plug-in.
Registration is open for Fighter Ace's Masters of Air Combat tournament on the MSN Gaming Zone; winners fly real aerobatic Marchetti SF-260s over Chicago.
EA signs exclusive rights to Michelle Kwan for a PC figure skating game aimed at girls eight to thirteen, due in time for the 1999 holidays.
Yamaha's new patented Advanced YST technology promises bigger bass from small multimedia speakers, debuting in the powered MS50 and MS55D systems.