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Nullsoft's Winamp 2.23 brings back the controversial Nitrane MPEG decoder, restoring MP2 support and cutting CPU usage, plus a new MikMod plug-in.
SpiritWars is out of beta and live on WON.net: an online-only cross between a trading card game and a board game where players battle to destroy each other's castle.
Get the Picture, Berkeley Systems' fifth original Bezerk game, is live: players write captions for a rotating gallery of images and vote for the winners.
3DO is now shipping Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor, New World Computing's RPG sequel with 3D acceleration and real-time or turn-based combat.
Cavedog says Total Annihilation: Kingdoms has gone gold and should hit store shelves by June 25, with four European language versions launching alongside it.
World Fusion is developing Atriarch, a massively multiplayer persistent RPG and strategy hybrid set on Atriana, an alien world where everything is alive.
Strategy First's Age of Sail sequel Man of War II has shipped to North American retail through GT Interactive, with 150-ship battles fought from the deck.
WizardWorks and Harley-Davidson are making a PC racing game where riders cross the country to the Sturgis rally, due out later this year.
Sierra and Relic have set September 1, 1999 as the worldwide ship date for Homeworld, the 3D space RTS and Relic Entertainment's debut game.
Interplay says Descent 3 is in duplication and may reach store shelves ahead of its announced June 15 release date for Windows PCs.