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Apr 29, 2025
First Look: Muppet Race Mania
  There seems to be no slowdown of the recent boom in cart racing games - especially ones that have cartoon characters attached to them. One of the latest to come through our offices is Muppet Race Mania, from Traveller's Tales. The game makes use of Jim Henson's Muppet characters, and...
Apr 29, 2025
Final NHL2K Comes Late
  Late last week, a reviewable copy of NHL2K for the Dreamcast arrived in our offices, and editor Ryan MacDonald immediately got to playing. He was impressed with how the game had improved over the version we had previously received - there was now better AI, a greater number of options,...
Apr 29, 2025
New Shots: Zelda: Mask of Mujula
  GameSpot News today brings you new screenshots of The Legend of Zelda: Mask of Mujula for the Nintendo 64. The psuedosequel to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time will make use of the N64 Expansion Pak for enhanced graphics and increased enemy counts per field map.   The Legend of...
Apr 29, 2025
Konami Arcade Classics Released
  Konami announced on Thursday that its Konami Arcade Classics title for the Sony PlayStation has been released to stores. The game features ten classic arcade favorites in one package: Pooyan, Scramble, Super Cobra, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Roc 'n' Rope, Shao-Lin's Road, Circus Charlie, Road Fighter, Time Pilot, and Gyruss.   Konami...
Apr 29, 2025
BattleTech Signs 10,000 In Beta Test
  Kesmai has announced that it has registered 10,000 testers for its upcoming massively multiplayer futuristic strategy war title, MultiPlayer BattleTech: 3025. But those gamers will have to wait until early next year to begin testing. The game puts players in massive Mechs in the 31st century to battle for domination...
Apr 29, 2025
Business Week Praises the Dreamcast
  Sega of America announced on Friday that its Dreamcast console has been included as one of the Best Products of 1999 by Business Week magazine. Cited for revolutionary design and technological advances, the Dreamcast console features a modem for Internet capability. Dreamcast titles like NFL2K and Soul Calibur were also...
Apr 29, 2025
Hoshigami Pushed Back To Spring
  GameSpot News has learned that the Japanese release of Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth (Hoshigami is roughly translated as Star God) for the Sony PlayStation has been pushed back from January to spring 2000. Developed by Max Five, the strategy-simulation-RPG features unique battle systems with a flavor of SquareSoft's Final Fantasy...
Apr 29, 2025
More PS2 Middleware Technology
  A new development tool from Side Effects Software will make designing games on next-generation consoles and PCs a lot easier. Called Proceed3D, the technology consists of a 2D/3D authoring package, a particle runtime engine, and a motion runtime engine, It is intended to allow designers to achieve a high quality...
Apr 29, 2025
Creative Loses Aureal Suit
  Last Friday afternoon, a San Francisco jury ruled that Aureal's Vortex chips do not infringe on a Creative Labs patent, clearing the Fremont, Calif., company from a long-standing lawsuit. Originally filed by Creative Labs in February 1998, a day after Aureal announced Vortex design wins with Dell Computers, the suit...
Apr 29, 2025
Bushnell Joins WebQuest
  Pong's creator is keeping busy lately. Nolan Bushnell - the father of video gaming, who originally founded Atari and who has since gone on to other tasks - announced today that he will be joining WebQuest International's Board of Directors.   The company runs several web sites, including www.ipong.com, a site...
Apr 29, 2025
Sid Meier's Anitetam! Releases
  Firaxis has announced that its latest real-time re-creation of the bloodiest day in Civil War history is now available. Players can order the game through the company's web site (www.firaxis.com) for US$29.99. ...
Apr 29, 2025
FFVIII PC Date Announced
  This morning, Square Electronic Arts announced that the PC version of Final Fantasy VIII will begin shipping on January 25, 2000. The game was originally released for the PlayStation in the US on September 9, 1999.   We are very excited about the upcoming release of Final Fantasy VIII for the...
Apr 29, 2025
Quake III Sales Through the Roof
  Activision and id Software have announced that, in only the first three days of sales, Quake III Arena has sold upward of 50,000 copies, according to the companies' internal tracking figures.   Quake is easily one of the hottest brands in interactive entertainment, and we had high expectations for Quake III...
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