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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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26 Sep
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Mark Rein interview posted

Planet Riva has posted an interview with Epic MegaGames' Mark Rein to discuss Unreal. Epic's Unreal quickly became one of the hottest titles of this year with incredible.

26 Sep
New Release
Colin McRae Rally Demo

More bits for the download pile. With this demo you can race at 3 stages, New Zealand, Australia and Monte Carlo.

26 Sep
New Release
Rendition OpenGL ICD released

Rendition released the BETA 3 of the OpenGL ICD for their Rendition V2x00 boards. This ICD release provides full accelerated OpenGL support.

25 Sep
New Release
SiN Demo Patch

Ritual released the SiN Demo patch for people who downloaded the original SiN demo. This patch will contain updates which include bug fixes, the 16 bit software renderer,.

25 Sep
New Release
Terminus interview posted

PCM&E has just put up a interview with Karthik Bala from Vicarious Visions which also includes some cool new screen shots of Terminus.

25 Sep
New Release
Thief: The Dark Project interview posted

Game-Interviews.com posted an interview with Greg LoPiccolo from Looking Glass who is the project leader of Thief: The Dark Project. Thief is an exciting first-person shooter.

25 Sep
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Maxi Gamer Phoenix ships

Guillemot announced it is the first to ship the VooDoo Banshee based Maxi Gamer Phoenix graphics accelerator card. This was made possible due to the close relationship between.

25 Sep
New Release
Vigilance Demo released

Gamecenter posted the exclusive Vigilance demo. SegaSoft's latest first-person shooter will be ready to ship in November, but you can try it out now at Gamecenter's exclusive.

25 Sep
New Release
Half-Life interview posted

Here is another piece of the September 1998 PC gaming mess. WarZone posted an interview with the script writer for Half-Life, Marc Laidlaw from Valve Software.