News.
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March 15, 1999: Gravis revealed its first game pad designed specifically for Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports is planned for release in stores late March.
Tim Train Iiinterview lands in February 1999 as PC hardware makers keep pushing faster chips, cards, drivers, and gaming peripherals.
Connectix Restraining Order Rejected moves into players' hands through a shipment, demo, patch, beta, or gold master in February 1999.
Legacy Interactive today announced that it is shipping 75,000 units of Emergency Room 2 and Best of Emergency Room 2 to the consumer retail channel, through its new distributor, GT Interactive.
The important bit: This holiday season, Activision is offering North American game fans a special Buy 1 Get 1 Free game promotion that includes many of the company's top-selling titles.
Bungie Software¹s upcoming real-time strategy title Myth II: Soulblighter is shipping later this year, its presentation of a totally immersive fantasy world will be enhanced with the best hardware in the business. 3D graphics acceleration will be covered with native support for 3Dfx¹s Glide API and the recent addition of Microsoft¹s Direct 3D, which adds support for cards from ATI, Matrox, nVidia and Rendition, among others.
Game publisher THQ Inc. shipped the new PC/Mac action-adventure game RedJack: Revenge of the Brethren. It was developed by CyberFlix, and is available for a suggested retail.
Red Orb Entertainment, a division of Broderbund Software now has announced the release of ``Riven: the Sequel to Myst'' on DVD-ROM for the PC and Macintosh G3 platforms.