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May 2, 2025
Pandemonium 2 Update
  Five members of the Pandemonium 2 team at Crystal Dynamics, including Lead Designer Zak Krefting, have left the company in order to pursue their own game-development plans. They might even do some stuff for us, a CD spokesperson told GameSpot News Friday. CD said the vacant slots would be filled....
May 2, 2025
Midway Struts Its Stuff
  Midway Entertainment recently had the press out to its Milpitas, Calif., offices to view a number of upcoming games.   On the arcade side, the company showed:   Mortal Kombat 4Two cabinets of the final 2.1 version of Mortal Kombat 4 were on hand for play. As readers may recall, this revision...
May 2, 2025
Postal Shoots Up Charts
  According to PC Data Corporation, Postal usurped both new titles such as Hexen 2 and Redneck Rampage, as well as more established titles such as Tomb Raider and Quake, as it shot past the pack and hit the third position on total revenues generated for action-game sales for the month...
May 2, 2025
Riven Patch Explained
  It's been just over 24 hours since Riven: The Sequel to Myst hit retail shelves and already Broderbund has released a patch for various problems discovered in the game - which has been over two years in the making.   On Friday, when GameSpot News talked to Broderbund spokesperson Eric Winkler,...
May 2, 2025
Catalyst Changes Everything
  You have a great idea for a 3D action game, you have a staff of talented artists and programmers; the only thing you don't have is the US$150,000 it takes to license the Quake engine technology. Enter Newfire, a small start-up company addressing the needs of other start-up companies.   According...
May 2, 2025
Mindscape Sells 100,000 Creatures
  Whereas presidents are always judged on their first one hundred days in office, rarely is a game judged the same way.   But Mindscape has reason for celebration as it announced that it has sold more then 100,000 copies of Creatures, a virtual-life simulation that shipped in late July and appears...
May 2, 2025
Diamond Announces New Monster 3D Board
  In the wake of 3Dfx Interactive's Voodoo Graphics 2 announcement, Diamond Multimedia has announced the follow-up to its Monster 3D.   Although Diamond isn't releasing a name, what that board will be configured with, or the software bundle that will be included with the new board, it does expect to release...
May 2, 2025
Cheating on Postal
  In real life, there is no cheating. In real life, there is no going postal.   If you like the idea of going postal, but don't care to learn the tricks, here are the cheats:   FLAMENSTEIN - all fire weapons and ammo   TITANIII - missile launcher and missiles   EXPLODARAMA - all...
May 2, 2025
Gamers Unite
  SlamSite debuts with a 15,000-square-foot facility and over 100 PCs networked to a 100Mbps backbone rigged with a T1 Internet connection.   Responding to the lucrative computer gaming industry, SlamSite will open its City of Industry, Calif., location (near downtown LA) on November 14, for premiering computer games from top developers....
May 2, 2025
Test Drive 4 Comes to the PlayStation
  Car fanatics of all types without the dough to buy exotic super-cars or muscle cars have reason to get hyped up to part with a significantly smaller amount of money as Accolade's new racing title, Test Drive 4 for the Sony PlayStation, ships this week.   Test Drive 4 will be...
May 2, 2025
Voodoo 2 Unveiled
  After generating far more buzz on the Web than any other chipset, 3Dfx Interactive announced on Monday its newest in the line of 3D graphics chips, the Voodoo 2.   Initially expected by the end of '97, the chip will be introduced for public consumption in the first quarter of 1998...
May 2, 2025
Medieval Royal Collection
  One disc short of a flush, Impressions Software's epic simulation of medieval England, Lords Royal Collection, is currently available on four CDs.   The Royal Collection includes Lords of the Realm, Lords of the Realm II, the Siege Pack, and features a demo of the soon-to-be-released Lords of Magic. The collection...
May 2, 2025
3Dfx on the Hot Seat
  After yesterday's announcement from 3Dfx, GameSpot News received questions from readers who wanted to know more about what the Voodoo 2 graphics card meant for them.   Freddie Gutierrez asked: Can you connect the old Voodoo cards (Monster 3D) to the new Voodoo 2? Or do we have to throw away...
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