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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.

Nintendo Switch

June 1999
10 Jun
New Release Nintendo Switch
Black Isle Ships Baldur’s Gate DVD

Black Isle Studios, the role-playing game (RPG) division of Interplay Entertainment announced the release of the digital video disk (DVD) version of their award-winning hit, Baldur's Gate.

07 Jun
Hardware Nintendo Switch
Creative and Lucent collaborate on New ADSL/V.90 Modem

Creative Technology announced Creative has teamed with Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group to produce a new ADSL G.LITE/V.90 modem.

October 1998
23 Oct
Hardware Nintendo Switch
New Wicked3D Voodoo2 Drivers

Wicked3D put out Wicked3D 2.8 drivers for their Voodoo2 card. The new drivers fix the black screen problem when exiting certain D3D games.

September 1998
18 Sep
New Release Nintendo Switch
New Heretic II screenshots posted

Activision's official Heretic II site has posted some new screenshots of the Ssithra from Heretic II. The Ssithra are amphibian creatures that inhabit a hidden city in Heretic II.

August 1998
03 Aug
New Release Nintendo Switch
Duke Nukem Forever Update

George Broussard from 3D Realms updated his .plan talking about Duke Nukem Forever. He says that they are doing very well from the switch from the Quake 2 Engine to using the Unreal Engine.

June 1998
18 Jun
New Release Nintendo Switch
George Broussard Interviewed

George Broussard Interviewed is the latest June 1998 update, with planetQuake has posted an interview with George Broussard of 3D Realms..

18 Jun
New Release Nintendo Switch
The Big Switch for Duke

Duke4.com wrote up an article, The Big Switch: What it Means for Duke, which discusses the pros and cons of Duke Nukem Forever making the big switch to the Unreal engine, and how it will affect the game.

16 Jun
New Release Nintendo Switch
Scott Miller on DNF

Scott Miller from 3D Realms has updated his .plan, talking about how the move to the Unreal Engine for DNF was not a was a financial decision.

16 Jun
New Release Nintendo Switch
George Broussard Updates .plan

George Broussard from 3D Realms update his .plan with some more info on Duke Nukem Forever engine switch to Unreal.

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