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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.

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09 Nov
New Release
Brood War FAQ Updated

Blizzard has updated the official Brood War F.A.Q.. They also posted 6 new Brood War screen shots from the Battle.net beta.

09 Nov
New Release
Populous Release Next Week

Populous: The Beginning will be arriving in stores late next week. Bullfrog says copies will begin shipping in the US towards the middle of next week and should be on store shelves by the weekend of November 21.

09 Nov
New Release Arcade
Microsoft Games Holiday Lineup

Microsoft's hot holiday lineup of PC games means no more fruitcake fiascos.

09 Nov
New Release
SiN in Stores

SiN will become the downfall of mankind when Activision releases Ritual Entertainment's highly anticipated first-person shooter game the week of November 9, 1998.

09 Nov
New Release
RAD Game Tools to support 3D audio API

RAD Game Tools has added a high level 3D audio API to their well known Miles Sound System which include ssupport for Aureal's award winning A3D positional audio.

08 Nov
New Release
DirectX 6.1 Released

Microsoft has released a new version of DirectX. This version is still the DirectX 6.1 Release Candidate.

07 Nov
New Release
Blood 2 Updated Demo Released

Monolith has re-released the new Blood 2 demo. Jason Hall, who is the CEO of Monolith has updated his .plan say that the demo is another hefty 36 mb download, but is well worth it.

07 Nov
New Release
Live Video Coverage of FRAG 2

The All Games Network released their live video coverage of FRAG 2. Check it out at the Game Time section of the All Games Network site.

07 Nov
New Release
Stephen Patterson Interview Part 2

ActionXtreme Insiders has put up the second part of the interview with Stephen Patterson, producer for Psygnosis.