Est. 1998
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The News Desk

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.

New Release

12 Aug
New Release Arcade
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Shipped

Gathering of Developers, a developer-driven computer and video game publishing company, now has announced that Jazz Jackrabbit 2, an action-packed, side-scrolling, arcade-style.

12 Aug
New Release
Shogo Information

Billy Wilson from Voodoo Extreme asked Jason Hall of Monolith a few questions regarding their upcoming LithTech engine based game, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division.

12 Aug
New Release
Mordor II Chat

Interplay has annnouned that they will be having a Mordor II Chat, scheduled for this Thursday. Morder II is from Black Isle Studios, the RPG division of Interplay Productions.

12 Aug
New Release
Baldur’s Gate Online Chat

Wanna ask the designers a few questions of your own, then stop by on their exclusive chat with the BG Designers at Bioware. 12th, 8:00pm EST Where: #3dgaming on 3dnet (ritual.3dnet.net, irc.planetquake.com) It is not the same as playing the thing, but in 1998 every new shot, chat log, and developer quote is enough to keep the hype machine fed for another day.

12 Aug
New Release
Klingon Honor Guard Movie

Reported by Unreal Nation that Microprose now has released a 26MB movie showing gameplay footage from Klingon Honor Guard, which is based on their Unreal engine.

11 Aug
New Release
Urban Assault Trial Version

Microsoft has announced now that the trial version of Urban Assault, an innovative combination of real time strategy and first person action, is expected to be available for download this Thursday on the official Urban Assault website.

11 Aug
New Release
Savage3D News

S3 Incorporated now has announced it has entered volume production with Savage3D and was awarded top honors by Mercury Research for delivering the highest frames per second on real world game applications.

11 Aug
New Release
Apollo MVP4 Announced

VIA Technologies, Inc, the leader in core logic chipset technologies, now introduced the high integration multimedia capable Apollo MVP4.

11 Aug
New Release
Cleaner Namaksy Interview

On the official Ion Storm website, The Daily Informant interviewed Cleaner Namaksy who is the Lead Level Designer on Tom Hall’s Anachronox team.