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.
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.
Need for Speed: High Stakes is shipping for PC with polygonal crash damage that affects handling, 3-D interiors, and features from the PlayStation version.
Interplay's Descent 3 is at retail for Windows 95/98/NT, adding open-atmosphere flight, ten new weapons, and a $50,000 online championship on HEAT.NET.