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Star Wars: The Old Republic has gone free-to-play, opening all eight class storylines to level 50 at no cost, alongside the existing subscription option.
Falcon Northwest Talon Systems Available hit the hardware desk today, aimed at PC users who still think specs, slots, drivers and bundled software are half the fun.
Allegiance Official Site Launched is today's update from the October 1999 desk, and there is enough here to make retro PC players pay attention.
Creative and Lucent are building a single PCI card that runs both ADSL G.Lite and standard V.90 dial-up, so one modem covers you before and after DSL arrives.
Wicked3D put out Wicked3D 2.8 drivers for their Voodoo2 card. The new drivers fix the black screen problem when exiting certain D3D games.
Activision's official Heretic II site has posted some new screenshots of the Ssithra from Heretic II. The Ssithra are amphibian creatures that inhabit a hidden city in Heretic II.
George Broussard from 3D Realms updated his .plan talking about Duke Nukem Forever. He says that they are doing very well from the switch from the Quake 2 Engine to using the Unreal Engine.
George Broussard Interviewed is the latest June 1998 update, with planetQuake has posted an interview with George Broussard of 3D Realms..
Duke4.com wrote up an article, The Big Switch: What it Means for Duke, which discusses the pros and cons of Duke Nukem Forever making the big switch to the Unreal engine, and how it will affect the game.
Scott Miller from 3D Realms has updated his .plan, talking about how the move to the Unreal Engine for DNF was not a was a financial decision.