Release Dates:
This
is a tentative list of releases. Dates are subject to change. To follow when
games have actually made it to store shelves, visit the Gone
Gold Page. Please send dates to laporte@gonegold.com.
*These lists appear monthly in PC Gamer
Magazine. Each Issue will have two months listed. The month of the Issue and
the Previous month.
Check
here for facts concerning Release Dates.
I can't stress the point enough.... Most
Release Dates are educated guesses. Don't get your heart set on any of them.
Want to know what games have
Gone Gold or hit store shelves aside from the ones listed below?
The Gone Gold Section:
Be sure to check out the real page to watch,
which is this one.
A complete list of games that have Gone Gold, Released and the price they're
going for.
New!
Hey, what happened to....? Come
here looking for a game you know was listed and now it's gone? Check the new Games
that have Slipped page to find out the latest news on games that have been
pushed back! (Last Updated: 04/20/01)
RELEASE
DATES LAST UPDATED: 05/04/01
The Short List....
The following short list of
games do not have any release dates. While other sites may speculate, the
companies are NOT giving out specific release dates. Actually, it's a bit more
complicated than this...
You see, there are two people
you can deal with in most companies to get a release date. The first person, and
the people I deal with mostly, are the Public Relations people. These are the
people that know the dates most of the time.
There is indeed another
source for Release Dates inside most major Publishing Houses. These are people
a guy like Rich LaPorte doesn't get to talk to. Their title? Sales managers.
The Sales Division is responsible for making sure there are retail chains and
companies looking to put their product on the shelves. These people are have
less restrictions placed on them when dealing with Retailers than PR people do
when dealing with magazines or websites.
When the purchasing manager
of K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, CompUSA, or Electronics Boutique is thinking of
buying 30,000 units of product "A" and asks the sales department
"What's your target date?" rest assured he or she is not told
"When it's done."
But we are. The key here is
what is correct. Is this sales person fudging dates to ease the mind of the
purchasing agent? Wouldn't be the first time in any business that's happened.
Most business have expeditors just for this reason, but not something that can
be done in the Computer Games Business I guess.
Instead of guessing and
getting aggravated with every change, these titles will stay on this list as
the developers wishes them to stay, until the magic two words are said... Gone
Gold.
