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3DO is now shipping Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor, New World Computing's RPG sequel with 3D acceleration and real-time or turn-based combat.
S3 will receive $42 million from UMC under a license agreement covering 29 patents for multimedia products and chip manufacturing technology.
NVIDIA's new RIVA TNT and TNT2 drivers are tuned for AMD's K6-2 and K6-III, with claimed gains of up to 40% in benchmarks and real games.
Electronic Arts has shipped over one million copies of Maxis' SimCity 3000 worldwide, with a Mac version arriving this summer at $49.95.
USC students Eddie Huang and Gordon Luk beat Boston University to win the first HEATCIGL collegiate championship, a 128-team Quake II tournament.
Cavedog says Total Annihilation: Kingdoms has gone gold and should hit store shelves by June 25, with four European language versions launching alongside it.
GameSpy 3D will be bundled with every Alienware gaming system, with cross-promotion included and more bundling deals under consideration.
Creative and Lucent are building a single PCI card that runs both ADSL G.Lite and standard V.90 dial-up, so one modem covers you before and after DSL arrives.
Creative Technology will ship internal PCI and external USB broadband products in Q3, promising download speeds up to 1.5Mbps, 26 times a 56K modem.
IBM and Acer have signed a seven-year procurement and technology alliance worth an expected $8 billion, covering hard drives, chips, networking, and displays.