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.
Brian Norris of St. Louis beat 4,500 entrants for the honor of being killed by SHODAN in System Shock 2, due this summer from Looking Glass Studios.
THQ's Ultimate 8 Ball brings 14 pool modes, 15 table shapes, and online play to the PC for $19.99, developed by Mirage Technologies.
Heavy Gear II ships to over 10,000 North American stores this week: 62nd-century squad combat for Windows 95/98 with a new hardware-only 3D engine, $49.95.
Sierra bundles Trophy Bass 2 Deluxe and Trophy Rivers as the Field & Stream Ultimate Fishing Trip, in stores this week for $29.95 on Windows 95/98.
Microworkz.com will ship the iToaster on July 15: a low-cost PC that skips Windows entirely, styled like a stereo component. A kid-safe version is coming too.
Shelton Williams of Nashville won the MSN Zone's Tundra Madness tournament, taking home a real Toyota Tundra after racing in Monster Truck Madness 2.
Psygnosis released an updated Drakan demo (v2b) with refined AI, arrow pickup, bug fixes, and Arokh's lightning attack, the last demo before the game ships.
Valve has released the Half-Life Uplink demo as a 10.4 MB mod that reuses installed game files, down from the 50 MB standalone download.
Xatrix has finished Kingpin and sent it off to manufacturing after 13 months of work. The shooter should be in stores by the end of June.
Activision and Pandemic Studios launched the official Dark Reign 2 site with news, screenshots, interviews, and faction sub-sites ahead of a winter '99 release.