Thursday, December 10th, 1998

• A review of Test Drive: Off Road 2 at GamePower. News from AGN3D

• A review of Half-Life at All About Games. News from AGN3D

• An interview with Stuart Denman about Drakan: Order of the Flame at Altered Worlds. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A 2.1 patch for Shogo: Mobile Armor Division should be released Friday evening and an updated 2.1 demo with multiplayer support on Monday. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A preview of Messiah at Gamer's Dimension. News from Voodoo Extreme

• An updated review of the Turtle Beach Montego A3DXstream at ActiveWindows

• An interview with Zipper Interactive about Recoil at Next Generation

• Mindmaker have released Game Commander which allow people to control games with their voice using a microphone with a price of $49.99 US. News from PC.IGN.COM

• A review of Tomb Raider 3: Adventures of Lara Croft at PC.IGN.COM

• A review of Thief: The Dark Project at Gamesmania

• A review of Spec OpS: Ranger Team Bravo at Computer Games Online

• A review of Thief: The Dark Project at Computer Games Online

• A review of the AIWA SC-C78 speaker system at Computer Games Online

• Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy by The 3DO Company has been released. News from GameSpot

• GT Interactive announced Powerslide has shipped. News from The Adrenaline Vault

• The Fabless Semiconductor Association recognized Aureal Semiconductor as an outstanding financial performer at the FSA's anniversary dinner celebration. The press release here

• A roundup of speakers comparing the 4qtech QX-F8 , 4qtech Sound Image Jr., 4qtech Sound Image Pro, Altec Lansing ACS48 PowerCube Plus Speaker System, Boston Acoustics BA-635, Boston Acoustics MicroMedia, Boston Acoustics MediaTheater,  Jazz Inferno 3D, Jazz JS900 and JS200, Labtec APX-4620, Labtec LCS-1030 , Labtec LCS-2420, Midiland S2 4030, Platinum Sound PS490 , Platinum Sound SWX1600, Sonigistix Monsoon MM-1000, Yamaha YST-MS28 and Yamaha YST-MS100 speakers at Stratics. News from Howard

• The Vortex 2 (8830) Windows95/98 4.06.2015 reference drivers are now available as an update (2.81MB) at Aureal Semiconductor

• Aureal Semiconductor have released the console commands to control Aureal A3D in Half-Life, Heretic II and SiN. News from David

Wednesday, December 9th, 1998

• New Vortex 2 (8830) Windows95/98 4.06.2015 reference drivers (21.7MB) are available at Aureal Semiconductor. They fix a problem where S/PDIF stopped functioning correctly after the system
  resumed from a power managed state. News from David

• New Aureal A3D 2.04 drivers (223KB) are available at Aureal Semiconductor. The drivers fix a problem with the Aureal A3D splash screen which happened with some Direct3D and OpenGL games. News from David

• A review of Shogo: Mobile Armor Division at GamePen. News from AGN3D

• An feature about Messiah at Shocked.Net. News from Voodoo Extreme

• Ultima: Ascension by Origin has been delayed until 2nd quarter 1999. News from Next Generation

• A review of Space Bunnies Must Die at PC.IGN.COM

• A review of SiN at GamePen

• A preview of Interstate 82 at Game Over Online Magazine

• A review of Cambridge SoundWorks PCWorks at 3D Gaming World

• A 2.2 patch (8.9MB) for Motorhead at Games Domain

• A demo (23.11MB) of Dark Vengeance at The Adrenaline Vault

• Creative Labs have released their response to the lawsuit

• Aureal Semiconductor announced that it has filed a lawsuit alleging patent infringement against Creative Labs in federal district court in the Northern District of California. Aureal's lawsuit alleges that Creative is infringing on two key 3D audio patents, Patent No. 5,596,644 entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Efficient Presentation of Hi-Quality 3-Dimensional Audio,'' and Patent No. 5,802,180 entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Efficient Presentation of Hi-Quality 3-Dimensional Audio Including Ambient Effects.'' . The press release here

Tuesday, December 8th, 1998

• A review of Thief: The Dark Project at Game Asylum.Com. News from 3DNews.Net

• A review of Heretic II at Tiberian Sun Universe. News from AGN3D

• A review of SiN at Gibbed.Com. News from AGN3D

• A review of Half-Life at GamesFirst!. News from AGN3D

• A review of Test Drive: Off Road 2 at Gaming Age. News from AGN3D

• A review of Shogo: Mobile Armor Division at PlayDevil.com. News from AGN3D

• An interview with Mark Rein about Unreal at Unreal Nation. News from Voodoo Extreme

• Looking Glass Technologies are working on a patch for Thief: The Dark Project   which adds EAX support, reduces the load times, adds joystick and gamepad support, improves keybinding, fixes areas where multiple AI's slow down the frame rate, fixes rare crash bug with flash bombs and other minor bugs. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A preview of Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy at Next Generation

• A review of Populous: The Beginning at Next Generation

• Thrustmaster have developed Talk n' Play, which allows up to 4 players to talk voice while playing games on the internet. Talk n' Play will be released January 1999 with a price of $30 US. News from PC.IGN.COM

• A preview of Redline at PC.IGN.COM

• A review of Populous: The Beginning at PC FAN

• GT Interactive will now distribute Plane Crazy - Uncivil Aviation in North America. News from The Adrenaline Vault

• An updated demo (7MB) of Powerslide at The Adrenaline Vault.

• Details about the 220 patch for Unreal at The Adrenaline Vault

• A review of Trespasser: Jurassic Park at ActiveWindows

• Updated Aureal A3D 2.02 drivers (194KB) are available at Aureal Semiconductor. The drivers have been updated to include an installer which adds the registry patch for a3dapi.dll and a readme file. News from David

Monday, December 7th, 1998

• NASCAR Revolution by EA Sports will support DirectSound3D. News from 3D Sound Surge

• A review of Populous: The Beginning at Game Post. News from AGN3D

• Turok II: Seeds of Evil can be pre - ordered from Acclaim Entertainment. News from GA-Source

Sunday, December 6th, 1998

• Descent 3 by Interplay will support Aureal A3D 2. News from 3D Sound Surge

• New screenshots of Dungeon Keeper II at Screenshots.net. News from 3DNews.Net

• A new The Hill Deathmatch map (660KB) for Half-Life at Blue's News. News from AGN3D

• A new Too Much Coffee Man model (269KB) for Half-Life at Blue's News. News from AGN3D

• A preview of Descent 3 at Psycho Gamer. News from AGN3D

• A review of the Cambridge SoundWorks DeskTop Theater 5.1 speaker system at AGN3D

• Expendable by Rage Software will also support DirectSound3D. News from GA-Source

• An update and 11 new screenshots of Expendable at GA-Source

• A review of Heretic II at Next Generation

• A review of Thief: The Dark Project at Next Generation

• A review of Half-Life at The Adrenaline Vault

• A review of the Diamond Monster Sound MX300  at 3D Audio Immersion. News from Steve

• A quicktime video clip (7MB) of Myth II: Soulblighter at Bungie Software. News from 3DFILES.COM

• A 3DNow! patch (349KB) for Half-Life at 3DFILES.COM

Saturday, December 5th, 1998

• A review of Half-Life at Game Post. News from AGN3D

• A review of SiN at GamePro.com. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A log of a chat with Mark Frohnmayer about StarSiege Tribes at Datumplane: Starsiege. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A edited log of a chat with Outrage Entertainment about Descent 3 at Planet Descent. News from Voodoo Extreme

• The full SinEd tool suite (1.4MB) for modifing SiN at The Node. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of Tomb Raider 3: Adventures of Lara Croft at Gamesmania

• A game guide for the deathmatch map in Unreal at GameSpot

• A preview of StarSiege at GameSpot

• A review of Thief: The Dark Project at GameSpot

Friday, December 4th, 1998

• An interview with Jay Lee about Navy Seals and 7 new screenshots at H.I.M.O.N.. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A future patch for Half-Life will fix the Aureal A3D problems on Diamond Monster Sound cards. News from David

• An official fix is now available for the Aureal A3D problems in Half-Life on Vortex 1 & 2 based sound cards. News from David

• A review of the multiplayer in SiN at Thresh's FiringSquad.com. News from 3DNews.Net

• A review of Plane Crazy - Uncivil Aviation at GamePen. News from AGN3D

• A review of Test Drive: Off Road 2 at Operation Sports. News from AGN3D

• A review of Heretic II at GA-Source

• A review of Dark Vengeance at Game Over Online Magazine

• A review of Thief: The Dark Project at Game Over Online Magazine

• A review of Tomb Raider 3: Adventures of Lara Croft at Games Domain

• Segasoft Networks announced SiN exclusingly on Heat.Net. News from The Adrenaline Vault

• The Diamond Monster Sound MX300 is now available for direct order from Diamond Multimedia . News from Jody

• A review of the Labtec LCS-2632 at Purified3D. News from Chris

Thursday, December 3rd, 1998

• New Turtle Beach Montego A3DXstream Windows NT4 1.16 drivers (7.4MB) are available at Voyetra Turtle Beach

• Ratbag have launched their own Powerslide WWW site. News from Sal

• A review of SiN at Thresh's FiringSquad.com. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A short interview with Tim Sweeney about Unreal at Total Unreal. News from Voodoo Extreme

• 11 new screenshots of Wargasm at GA-Source

• A preview of Heavy Gear II at PC.IGN.COM

• An interview with Stuart Denman , Alan Patmore, Mike Nichols and Mel Guymon about Drakan: Order of the Flame at PC.IGN.COM

• Ratbag are developing an addon pack for Powerslide. News from Games Domain

• Another review of Shogo: Mobile Armor Division at Games Domain

• A review of Moto Racer 2 at Games Domain

• A preview of Interstate 82 at Gamecenter

• Heavy Gear II by Activision has been delayed until January 1999 .News from The Adrenaline Vault

• A patch (480KB) for Tomb Raider 3: Adventures of Lara Croft at 3DFILES.COM

• A 3.20 patch (5.1MB) for Quake 2 at 3DFILES.COM

• Midisoft Corporation announced that Diamond Multimedia will bundle Internet Sound Bar, MediaWorks 98 and Studio Recording Session with the Diamond Monster Sound MX300

• Diamond Multimedia announced that they are now shipping to Diamond Monster Sound MX300 to customers in the USA. The press release is available here.

• New Vortex 2 (8830) Windows95/98 4.05.2015.05 reference drivers (21.9MB) are available at Aureal Semiconductor

Wednesday, December 2nd, 1998

• 10 news screnshots of Messiah at The MESSIAH UNIVERSE. News from AGN3D

• People who purchased SiN in the USA can recieve a free copy of SiN 1.01 on CD including the new Paradox Deathmatch level by sending their name and mailing address to sinupdate@activision.com . News from Voodoo Extreme

• A chat with Outrage Entertainment about Descent 3 at chat.annex.com on Thursday December 3rd at 6PM Pacific.  News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of Half-Life at Stormtroopers. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of Populous: The Beginning at Beyond 3D. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A 1.0 patch (2.65MB) for Trespasser: Jurassic Park at The Adrenaline Vault

• A review of Space Bunnies Must Die at The Adrenaline Vault

• A review of Test Drive 5 at PC.IGN.COM

• A review of the BSG Intensor Chair at Gamezilla!

• A review of Heretic II at Gamesmania

• Thief: The Dark Project by Looking Glass Technologies is now available in shops. News from Online Gaming Review

• A peview of the Diamond Monster Sound MX300 at GameSpot

• A review of Heretic II at GameSpot

• A preview of Black and White at GameSpot

• A review of Monaco Grand Prix Racing Simulation 2 at Games Domain

• Zoran announced that Cambridge SoundWorks is using their ZR38600 audio intergrated circuit IC technology in the Cambridge SoundWorks DeskTop Theater 5.1 speaker system. News from The Adrenaline Vault

• A new 1.51a Interactive Around-Sound driver (741KB) for the Diamond Monster Sound M80, Xitel Storm 3D and vortex 1 based sound cards at Extreme Audio Reality. The driver now supports the Aureal A3D 2.02 drivers and international versions of DirectX.

• Diamond Multimedia have shipped the Diamond Monster Sound MX300 and it will be available in stores early next week.

• Aureal Semiconductor announced Sony is using Vortex 1 based sound cards for Aureal A3D support on the PCV-E302DS VAIO Digital Studio and PCV-E308DS VAIO Digital Studio computer systems. The press release here.

• A review of the multiplayer in SiN at Gamers Central. News from Falconer

Tuesday, December 1st, 1998

• A review of Moto Racer 2 at The Sports Gaming Network. News from AGN3D

• A review of Heretic II at AGN3D. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of Populous: The Beginning at GAMELINKS.NET. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A preview of Heavy Gear II at 3D Gaming World. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A preview of Descent 3 at 3D Gaming World. News from Voodoo Extreme

• A review of Trespasser: Jurassic Park at 3DGaming.Net. News from Voodoo Extreme

• Mobil 1 Rally 99 Championship by EuroPress will support Aureal A3D

• A review of Test Drive 5 at GA-Source

• A review of Half-Life at Gamesmania

• A review of Shogo: Mobile Armor Division at XtremeNetwork.com. News from Gamecenter UnderGround

• A review of SiN at Game Post. News from Gamecenter UnderGround

• An interview with Gabe Newell about Half-Life at Gamecenter

• Aureal Semiconductor announced Heavy Gear II, Heretic II and SiN by Activison will support Aureal A3D. The press release here.
  

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