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.
InterAct and 3dfx are launching co-branded PC peripherals, led by the Hammerhead FX vibration gamepad and a palm-held FX Racing Wheel.
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.
Yamaha's new patented Advanced YST technology promises bigger bass from small multimedia speakers, debuting in the powered MS50 and MS55D systems.
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.
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.
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.
S3 will announce the Savage/MX and Savage/IX on Monday, two mobile graphics chips built to bring real 3D acceleration to notebook PCs.
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.
The Hercules Dynamite TNT2 ships in mid-June from $149.99, with guaranteed 145/170 MHz clocks and a bundled HercuMeter overclocking utility.