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MechWarrior 3 topped PC Data's chart in both units and dollars for the week of June 6, selling more than 18,000 copies in its second week at retail.
HeadGames' Indoor Sporting 3 Pack puts pool, darts and bowling on the PC for $19.95, available now in 10,000 stores across the US and Canada.
Acclaim's South Park Rally puts over a dozen characters in matching vehicles on South Park tracks, with original lines recorded by Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and Isaac Hayes.
Rockstar's official GTA community site GTA2.com opens July 1 with GTA: London 1961, a free downloadable prequel expansion for owners of GTA: London 1969 on PC.
GameSpy's GameLaunch 3D hits version 1.5 with support for Riva TNT and Voodoo3 cards, Quake III, Team Fortress Classic, and a config-carrying script converter.
SouthPeak's family side-scroller Animaniacs: A Gigantic Adventure is now playable through free multiplayer matchmaking on Microsoft's MSN Gaming Zone.
Motorsport Simulations announced SCCA Can-Am, an online and retail PC racing sim recreating the early-70s Can-Am series, due in early 2000.
Dynamix announced TRIBES Extreme, adding a single-player campaign and team training to Starsiege TRIBES, due this fall on CD-ROM for about $40.
Impressions Games has launched pharaoh1.com, the official site for its ancient Egypt city builder Pharaoh, with new screenshots ahead of a fall release on PC.
Interplay has shipped Kingpin: Life of Crime, Xatrix's Quake II-engine crime shooter with a Cypress Hill soundtrack, for Windows 95/98/NT.