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.
Bungie Software¹s upcoming real-time strategy title Myth II: Soulblighter is shipping later this year, its presentation of a totally immersive fantasy world will be enhanced with the best hardware in the business. 3D graphics acceleration will be covered with native support for 3Dfx¹s Glide API and the recent addition of Microsoft¹s Direct 3D, which adds support for cards from ATI, Matrox, nVidia and Rendition, among others.
In honor of All Hallows Eve, Microsoft today said that the trial version of Pinball Arcade, the Halloween themed table Haunted House, is expected to be available for download this Friday.
The CPL said that Steve Gibson (sCary), of sCary's Shuga Shack, will moderate for the FRAG 2 event taking place during Halloween weekend.
GameStats posted a downloadable movie in AVI format of The Rise Of Rome, an add-on pack for Age Of Empires from Microsoft and Ensemble Studios.
The CPL said that John Carmack from id Software will offer the winner of the official CPL Quake II tournament at FRAG II, a specially engraved piston from his Ferrari Testarossa.
The Wheel of Time web site has been updated with a development update. They discuss the the latest developments of Wheel of Time and also posted some screenshots from the game.
Tool jumps on board for a freaky deaky good time in this newest installment of a 45 minute romp through pointless entertainment at each others expense.
Intergraph Computer Systems today said that its revolutionary Wildcat 3D Graphics Technology, announced at SIGGRAPH in July, is delivering ahead of schedule with the company's new Intense 3D Wildcat 4000 graphics accelerator.
Microsoft said that Ants, a free, Internet-based multiplayer strategy game in which gamers compete against each other as ants, is available for free download and play on the MSN Gaming Zone.
SegaSoft Networks has cleared the runways for takeoff with Plane Crazy.