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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.

New Release

17 Aug
New Release
Urban Assault showing up in Stores

Microsoft has announced now that Urban Assault, an innovative combination of real time strategy and first person action, is starting to show up in stores.

17 Aug
New Release Arcade
Maxi Gamer 3D2 12MB Price Lowered

Guillemot International (GI) has lowered the price of its 12MB Maxi Gamer 3D2 graphics accelerator board to a market shattering $159.99, the company has announced now.

17 Aug
New Release
EA purchasing Westwood Studios

Electronic Arts, the world's largest interactive entertainment software company, now has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase all outstanding stock of Westwood Studios, and certain other studio assets of Virgin Interactive Entertainment, a division of Spelling Entertainment Group, Inc The cash transaction is valued at $122.5 million.

17 Aug
New Release
Rainbow Six Demo Released

A new demo is out, or close enough to start watching the download sites like a hawk. PC Gamer has posted the Rainbow Six Demo.

17 Aug
New Release
Blood 2 Weekly Update 14

Monolith has updated the offcial Blood 2: The Chosen website with Weekly Update 14. This week Jay spends time to cover the different aspects of Blood 2's development and their progress with screenshots.

17 Aug
New Release
Battlefield Communicator Beta Released

This one is moving from rumor and preview talk into something players can actually get their hands on. ShadowFactor Software has has released the Battlefield Communicator Public Beta.

17 Aug
New Release Mac
Red Orb DVDs

Red Orb Entertainment, a division of Broderbund Software now has announced the release of ``Riven: the Sequel to Myst'' on DVD-ROM for the PC and Macintosh G3 platforms.

17 Aug
New Release
Legal Crime 1.1.7 Beta Released

This one is moving from rumor and preview talk into something players can actually get their hands on. Byte Enchanters have has released Legal Crime 1.1.7 beta.

16 Aug
New Release
Winamp 1.92-SP1 Released

This one is moving from rumor and preview talk into something players can actually get their hands on. Being a big mp3 fan that I am, thought i would mention Nullsoft has has released Winamp 1.92-SP1.