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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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06 Aug
New Release
Sound Blaster Live Ships

Creative Technology Ltd., the world's leading provider of multimedia products for thePC, now has announced the company has begun shipping Sound Blaster Live!,the most powerful.

06 Aug
New Release
Chris Taylor Interview

Ken Liang from GamePen for letting me know that Desslock's RPG News did an interview with Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor about hisnew company, game design philosophy, and upcoming 3D multi-perspectivesingle-player/multi-player role-playing game to be published by Microsoft.Chris Taylor was the lead designer of the award-winning real-time strategygame Total Annihilation.

06 Aug
New Release
FireTeam Beta 2.1 CD is Gold

The FireTeam Beta 2.1 CD has been burned and sent to manufacturingtoday. With Beta 2.1, the number of FireTeam testers grows to over 2000 testers.

06 Aug
New Release
Half-Life E3 Mpeg

Contaminated.net, has got Half-Life Mpeg from E3, which Valve sent them. The Mpeg is from the E3 Half-Life demo.

06 Aug
New Release
Messiah Info

Gamer's Alliance have got their hands on the first part of the story, the prolouge for Team Ego's upcoming 3D Action shooter, Messiah.

05 Aug
New Release
Longbow 2 and Longbow Gold Patch

Reported by Voodoo Extreme (yes i do give credit, Billy) that EA has has released a Longbow 2 patch and Longbow Gold patch.

05 Aug
New Release
Grand Touring Cars Demo

Reported by Adrenaline Vault that Elite Systems has has released the 3rd version of Grand Touring Cars demo.

05 Aug
New Release
Need For Speed 3 Interview

Next Generation Online did an interview with Need For Speed 3 PC producer Mark Madland to get some inside info on this highly promising racer.

05 Aug
New Release
SiN Interview

SiN Post for letting me know Gamer's Digest did a SiN interview with Charlie Wiederhold. To find out all that was said about SiN (some secrets included), headed over to the SiN Interview here.