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.
Ancient Conquest, the Greek mythology naval RTS from MegaMedia Australia and Re:Action Entertainment, ships to North American retail this week at $29.99.
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.
Registration is open for Fighter Ace's Masters of Air Combat tournament on the MSN Gaming Zone; winners fly real aerobatic Marchetti SF-260s over Chicago.
EA signs exclusive rights to Michelle Kwan for a PC figure skating game aimed at girls eight to thirteen, due in time for the 1999 holidays.
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.
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.
Electronic Arts has shipped over one million copies of Maxis' SimCity 3000 worldwide, with a Mac version arriving this summer at $49.95.
Cavedog says Total Annihilation: Kingdoms has gone gold and should hit store shelves by June 25, with four European language versions launching alongside it.
The Female Frag Fest '99 site is live ahead of June 15 registration: the first in a series of female-only Quake 2 tournaments from Lilith & Eve and The All Games Network.
Future Games Network interviews SWAT 3 producer Rod Fung and posts exclusive screenshots of Sierra's tactical squad game that skipped the E3 press kit.