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.
Matrox closed fiscal 1998/99 with US$550 million in combined sales and a 23rd straight profitable year, with graphics board volume jumping from six to ten million units.
Radica Games has bought Leda Media Products, the UK's biggest third party controller supplier, for $14 million, with a US rollout of the LMP line set for January 2000.
Kasparov put the World team in check on move three of the MSN Gaming Zone match; the coaches are split on a reply, and voting runs until Saturday morning.
Microsoft will build a game ratings blocker into next year's Windows, checking rating data embedded directly in the games themselves.
Diamond Multimedia has spun off RioPort, a subsidiary building a full digital audio platform: a portal, player software, and new Rio designs, deploying in August.
Interactive Magic launches ICONS II next month: community software for running free, subscription, and pay-for-play games, pitched to ISPs and telecoms too.
Gaming site WON.net is sponsoring the second Yahoo! Internet Life Online Music Awards, set for July 19 at Studio 54 with Penn & Teller hosting.
Hasbro stock begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange today under its existing HAS symbol, a move aimed at making the company visible to global investors.
Brian Norris of St. Louis beat 4,500 entrants for the honor of being killed by SHODAN in System Shock 2, due this summer from Looking Glass Studios.
S3 has agreed to acquire Diamond Multimedia, aiming at Internet appliances, home networking, and a bigger graphics business, backed by roughly $730 million.