Jan.- Feb. '99

2-28-99

Review Zone has a review on AMD's K6 III 256k L2 CPU.

2-27-99

Still waiting to play TRIBES on your TNT? Check out the .plan update by Dave Moore.

2-26-99

Anachronox preview over at GameStream.net.

2-24-99

Matt Bettinson of PCGWorld payed a visit to id Software and checked out Quake3. Here is his story.

2-23-99

Ritualistic has posted a new AVI with footage from the recently released SIN mission pack from 2015.

2-22-99

Another Intel vs AMD article taking a look at the latest and greates CPU's from both companies and putting them head to head.

2-20-99

Intel has already pushed the PentiumIII CPU to the 1GHz range with some "special cooling methods"...

2-15-99

If you just can't wait for GameSpy support of TRIBES (coming soon) the PingTool guys have already included it in the latest version of their server browser utility. Here is the direct file link.

2-13-99

The GameSpot UK Quake3 screenshots area is online. You have to wade through a lot of old screenshots but if you're lucky you will find one shot that apparently had not been released before.

2-11-99

Tweak3D have gotten a hold of some great utilities that you might want to try out in your overclocking endeavors.

2-10-99

Face-Off at FiringSquad takes a look at cheating in multiplayer games.

2-7-99

This article talking about Intel being cry babies for the P3 chip being sold before the official release date.

2-5-99

A huge issue of debate on the Q3 messageboard is id Software's choice to go with a 600ms switch time between weapons. tiGGr went through the trouble of making this nifty little page which will show you first hand just how fast that is with a great interactive "demo"

2-2-99

Gabe Newell sent out a new multiplayer pack for Half-Life including several new DM models and a new DM map for you guys to choose from. Here's the list. You can grab the file from PlanetHalflife.

2-1-99

The Real3D guys have released some new drivers for their i740 based cards.

1-28-99

Kenn Hoekstra, of Raven Software (Soldier of Fortune), was interviewed regarding Raven Technology and their new game. While based on the Quake2 engine, they will be making heavy modifications, including a new modelling system, a new AI system, as well as other improvements (better lighting, reflections, etc.).

1-26-99

Wondering what the N64 port of Quake2 is looking like? The N64.IGN.COM guys have gotten a hold of a few shots that should answer the question for ya.

1-25-99

Wondering what Unreal Tournament will be like? Have a look at the PCGames preview of Epic's new baby.

1-22-99

"Father Frags Best," a Quake 2 movie feature, has been released from Zarathustra Studios at http://www.planetquake.com/zs/. I loved it and I highly recommend it.

1-19-99

The boys at www.ritualistic.com have word from the 2015 guys on the official name of their SIN mission pack (Wages of SIN) as well as a pair of new screenshots for you to check out.

1-16-99

Tom's Hardware has posted a Riva TNT Card Comparison, comparing every Riva TNT card.

1-15-99

There is a short interview with Brian Goble of Monolith at PlanetBlood which touches on the subject of a sequel to Blood2 which is based on the LithTech engine

1-12-99

FiringSquad has posted a new preview of Messiah for those of you who still arent familiar with the game.

1-9-99

What? You wanna see some footage of Q3A in action from that Steve Jobs presentation? Look no further than this little number over at ZDNet. Skip ahead to 1:19:00 for the Q3 footage. Make sure you have a RealPlayer

1-6-99

Gamers Alliance has some positive news for those of you waiting on Daikatana from Ion Storm.

1-5-99

It seems there was is another Glide wrapper in development. Check out Angelic-Coders. (Includes a screenshot of NFS3/Glide on a Riva TNT card.... so they claim.) And also don't forget to check out the 'Glide Underground', a site dedicated to these Glide wrappers.

Another new version of Winamp has been released.

1-2-99

George Broussard of 3DR made a small post to the 3DPortal msgboards about the ultimate goals for the D3D version of DukeNukem4ever. Here it is:

The ultimate goal is to try and move DNF over to D3D, so the video card hassle is minimized. This is an issue we will start to address after we patch to the 220-222 Unreal code base and evaluate the state of the current D3D drivers.

1-1-99

Happy New Year all...

The Creative Labs FTP site has new Windows 95/98 drivers for the Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT, as well as a new 3D Blaster Banshee OpenGL driver for Windows 9X and Windows NT4.0, and new Windows 95/98 Graphics Blaster 3D drivers.