News.
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Stormtroopers will host October’s Cabana Chat this Thursday, October 8 at 8PM Central. Cabana Chat is a monthly discussion with members of the Daikatana development team.
Fresh 3d posted a Heretic 2 interview with Pat Lipo, who is Lead Programmer of Raven Software's upcoming Heretic 2. He talks about his role in the Heretic 2 design, Heretic 2 AI and other other Heretic things.
GameSpy 2.04 has been released. You can download it from the GameSpy Downloads Page. Version 2.04 is for registered users only (Version 2.02 is still the latest Shareware release).
Interplay will be having a Baldur's Gate Chat today. Dr. Ray Muzyka, BioWare Corp., co-producer on Baldur's Gate and Chris Parker, Black Isle Studios in-house producer will be in attendence.
Akolyte looks to be one of the hottest games this season, especially with their new engine they are showing off. The chat will be October 8th at 8:00pm EST, #3dgaming (irc.planetquake.com)
On October 31st (Saturday) at around 7PM, there will be an All-Star Doom II Competition, at FRAG 2. No $5,000 cash prizes, but the first place winner will receive a Doom2 art, painted by Kristin Weeks.
Sierra Sports announced the release of Grand Prix Legends. Grand Prix Legends, developed by the award-winning Papyrus Design Group, features the most realistic vehicle dynamics model available in a racing simulation.
ASC Games posted preview movie the of Werewolf: the Apocalypse. It is another install-or-download item for the pile, which is basically the state of PC gaming right now.
John Carmack, of id Software will be holding a workshop on Quake III Arena at The FRAG 2 event to take place in Dallas, Texas (Oct 30 - Nov 1).
PC Gamer Online posted the Interactive Interview with Jay Wilson, project lead for Blood II.