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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

11 Oct
New Release
Nocturne Update

Nocturne is today's business-side update, the sort of suit-and-spreadsheet news that still decides what games actually reach players.

11 Oct
New Release
NEC MultiSync Flat Enterprise Series Announced

NEC MultiSync Flat Enterprise Series has been announced, and the pitch is now loose in the wild for PC and console players to start arguing about.

11 Oct
New Release
Mitsubishi LCD 52 Announced

Mitsubishi LCD 52 has been announced, and the pitch is now loose in the wild for PC and console players to start arguing about.

10 Oct
New Release DOS
OpenGL DooM Legacy v1.29 Beta 9a Released

OpenGL DooM Legacy v1.29 is moving through beta, so players willing to deal with crashes, weirdness and unfinished edges can get in early.

08 Oct
New Release
Motorsims Racing Network To Host Championship Racing Series

Motorsims Racing Network To Host Championship Racing Series is today's update from the October 1999 desk, and there is enough here to make retro PC players pay attention.

08 Oct
New Release
MechWarrior3 Meltdown Tournament Registration

Publishers are throwing prizes, rebates and giveaways at players, because apparently just selling the game is not enough anymore.

08 Oct
New Release
Command & Conquer: Renegade Website Launched

Command & Conquer: Renegade is today's update from the October 1999 desk, and there is enough here to make retro PC players pay attention.

08 Oct
New Release
Flight Simulator 2000 goes Gold

In October 1999, that is the magic phrase: stop tweaking it, start pressing discs.

08 Oct
New Release
Links LS 2000 in Stores

Links LS 2000 is now shipping, adding one more game to an October release calendar that already looks like somebody kicked over a filing cabinet.