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Logitech and Radius monitor maker miro displays form a worldwide alliance to sell color-matched peripherals and displays, starting in Q3 with a 15-inch LCD.
Shelton Williams of Nashville won the MSN Zone's Tundra Madness tournament, taking home a real Toyota Tundra after racing in Monster Truck Madness 2.
SimCity creator Will Wright made Entertainment Weekly's It List of the 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment, alongside Ken Kutaragi and Pikachu.
Acclaim Comics resumes publishing in July with a Turok/Shadow Man one-shot and a monthly Shadow Man series, both tied to August's Shadow Man video game.
America Online and Hughes Electronics formed an alliance to market combined satellite TV and Internet services spanning DIRECTV, DirecPC, and AOL TV.
Garry Kasparov opened the Kasparov vs. the World tournament on MSN with pawn to e4, played out on a life-size board in New York City's Bryant Park.
Activision and Pandemic Studios launched the official Dark Reign 2 site with news, screenshots, interviews, and faction sub-sites ahead of a winter '99 release.
The MSN Gaming Zone crowned four Chess Challenge winners, the grand prize taking $2500 and a Kasparov-signed set, ahead of the June 21 Kasparov vs. The World match.
Barracuda acquired worldwide rights to CyberFlix's Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, which has sold nearly a million copies and was 1998's sixth best-selling PC game.
Barracuda signed a three-year deal with Dice Computer Games to distribute the adventure game Timelapse in over a dozen European countries starting this June.