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.
Brian Hook, formerly of id Software and a chief architect of 3Dfx's Glide API, has joined EverQuest developer Verant Interactive's programming team.
ELSA is now shipping the Synergy II workstation graphics card: RIVA TNT2 silicon, up to 32MB, certified OpenGL drivers, and a $299 price that undercuts the workstation pack.
Swedish developer MindArk is building a 3D online RPG meant to hold thousands of players in a single world, with a public beta planned for spring 2000.
Strategy First's Age of Sail sequel Man of War II has shipped to North American retail through GT Interactive, with 150-ship battles fought from the deck.
WizardWorks and Harley-Davidson are making a PC racing game where riders cross the country to the Sturgis rally, due out later this year.
Sierra and Relic have set September 1, 1999 as the worldwide ship date for Homeworld, the 3D space RTS and Relic Entertainment's debut game.
Michael Ovitz and Yucaipa's Richard Wolpert have made an equity investment in GameSpy Industries, and Wolpert takes a seat on the company's board.
Steve Jackson Games has licensed Bungie's Myth for a GURPS sourcebook due in November, the first GURPS book based on a computer game.
Microsoft signs a two-year deal to use Macrovision's SafeDisc copy protection on its games, educational, and personal finance CD-ROMs.
Aureal Semiconductor is renaming itself Aureal, Inc. and executing a 1-for-15 reverse stock split, with the record date set for June 10.