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Microsoft revealed the immediate worldwide availability of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, the eagerly awaited Web browser software that works faster to save users time.
March 18, 1999: Dynamix, a Sierra Company, began shipping the eagerly-anticipated Starsiege to stores throughout the United States and Canada.
Microsoft says Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, the latest space combat simulation in Lucas Arts' popular X-Wing series, is available now for free multiplayer matchmaking exclusively on the MSN Gaming Zone.
March 18, 1999: The MSN Gaming Zone says at an undisclosed time on Friday, March 26, gamers will be able to sign up here for the chance to be Asheron's Call beta testers.
Interplay Entertainment and Planet Moon Studios, the team responsible for the intense action of MDK is back for more, preparing their first real-time action/strategy game.
Intel Corporation revealed delivery of its multi-resolution mesh (MRM) software technology to a key 3-D tool publisher and three leading game developers, allowing them to lower the cost and shorten the development time involved in creating compelling three-dimensional graphics in games.
Fueled by strategic partnerships with two leading broadband carriers, HEAT.NET, the fast, free online gaming service with the greatest selection of games, has roared into 1999, nearly doubling its total membership over the past three months. at the Game Developers Conference, HEAT.NET revealed its one-millionth member, making it one of the top three overall players in the online gaming arena, and the top service focusing on core PC game players.
Black Isle Studios, the role-playing game division of Interplay Entertainment and Resounding Technology revealed from the Game Developers Conference that Black Isle Studios has licensed Resounding's Roger Wilco Internet voice communication software and will bring it in the Baldur's Gate adventure pack add-on, Tales of the Sword Coast.
Climb into the cockpit and get your trigger finger ready for Flight Combat: Thunder Over Europe, a WWII air combat simulation where gamers experience the life and death struggle that was air combat over Europe in the 1940's.
In anticipation of Battlezone II's late summer release, Activision and Pandemic Studios are launching a web site dedicated to giving gamers up-to-date information on the development of Battlezone II.