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The Female Frag Fest '99 site is live ahead of June 15 registration: the first in a series of female-only Quake 2 tournaments from Lilith & Eve and The All Games Network.
HEAT.NET kicks off a 60-day, 60-city road tour today, ending at HEATSTOCK '99 in San Francisco, billed as North America's largest real-life gamer gathering.
3Dlabs ran the first public demo of DirectX 7 hardware geometry and lighting on its Oxygen GVX1, claiming up to three times faster geometry-heavy performance.
Red Hat has filed with the SEC for an initial public offering of its common stock, with Goldman Sachs leading the underwriting for the Linux company.
S3 will announce the Savage/MX and Savage/IX on Monday, two mobile graphics chips built to bring real 3D acceleration to notebook PCs.
Future Games Network interviews SWAT 3 producer Rod Fung and posts exclusive screenshots of Sierra's tactical squad game that skipped the E3 press kit.
Psygnosis has named Drakan.Net the official fan site for Drakan: Order of the Flame, its action-adventure mixing ground combat with dragon-riding aerial battles.
World Fusion is developing Atriarch, a massively multiplayer persistent RPG and strategy hybrid set on Atriana, an alien world where everything is alive.
Prog legends Yes have recorded a single inspired by Relic's upcoming RTS Homeworld. It debuts on tour this summer, on the new album, and on the game's soundtrack.
ATI has countersued Real 3D in Delaware, one week after Real 3D claimed ATI's RAGE graphics line infringes two patents. ATI wants the patents declared invalid.