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.
Microsoft demoed DirectX 7.0 at Meltdown 99: hardware T&L support, new 3-D audio, and a 20 percent speed gain over 6.1, arriving late summer.
Real 3D has sued ATI Technologies for patent infringement and trade secret theft, asking an Orlando court to halt sales of ATI's 3D graphics products.
KB Toys joins Sega's US Dreamcast pre-order campaign as pre-orders pass 100,000, with more than 200,000 expected by the September 9 launch.
Alienware forms a software division, Alienware Technology, and its first project is First Contact, an in-game voice chat utility for online play.
The Cyberathlete Professional League will host the LAN rounds of the Descent 3 $50,000 Championship, with finals at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in August.
GameSpy's BeatDown 19 LAN party hits San Francisco July 16-18 with room for more than 200 players, its biggest yet. Registration closes June 12.
Microsoft will donate $25,000 to Al Leiter's charity if the Mets pitcher hits a home run this season, part of its Baseball 2000 Home Run Challenge.
Microsoft has licensed flange, chorus, EQ, and reverb effects from Creative's EAX API and will build them into the next version of DirectX.
Registration is open for Fighter Ace's Masters of Air Combat tournament on the MSN Gaming Zone; winners fly real aerobatic Marchetti SF-260s over Chicago.
EA signs exclusive rights to Michelle Kwan for a PC figure skating game aimed at girls eight to thirteen, due in time for the 1999 holidays.