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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.

New Release

02 Aug
New Release
Bitboys OY Unveils Glaze3D Product Family

Bitboys OY Unveils Glaze3D Product Family is the news today, which means another box, download, or retail shelf just got busier. Bitboys Oy announced today Glaze3D...

02 Aug
New Release
Quake III Arena Road Tour Announced

Quake III Arena Road Tour Announced landed today, giving players another thing to circle on the calendar. Batten down the hatches is behind the announcement. Batten...

01 Aug
New Release
Seed Test Released

Seed Test Released is the news today, which means another box, download, or retail shelf just got busier. Human Soft has is behind the announcement. Human Soft has...

July 1999
30 Jul
New Release
iEntertainment Network Launches European Communities

Bingo in Europe is the first iEN product to be released in the company's planned network of international Internet entertainment communities.

30 Jul
New Release
Eidos buys into Pyro Studios and Proein

Eidos plc says the acquisition, on 29 July 1999, of an effective 25% of the share capital of the Spanish developer Pyro Studios SL and 75% of the share capital of the related.

30 Jul
New Release
Drakan heads to Mplayer.com for online play

Psygnosis revealed its plans for bringing the action/adventure, DRAKAN Order of the Flame to thousands of gamers over the Internet through a partnership with Mplayer.com as.

29 Jul
New Release
Age of Empires II beta pulls 160,000 entries

Microsoft says that it received more than 160,000 entries to become one of 300 beta testers for the real-time strategy game, Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.

29 Jul
New Release
Asheron’s Call beta keeps moving toward holiday release

Microsoft says that the massively multiplayer role-playing game, Asheron's Call, continues to make fantastic progress and remains on schedule for a holiday release.

29 Jul
New Release Mac
SimCity 3000 for the Macintosh Ships

Electronic Arts has the latest July 1999 move: SimCity 3000 for the Macintosh Ships. Electronic Arts says it has shipped SimCity 3000 for the Macintosh.