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The History of Bungie is the history of a small (2 person) independent gaming software company that became a landmark in gaming with the Halo series.

2007 - What we have to show for it (besides Halo 3).

For me, the game of year is without doubt:

Halo 3 (IGN Review)- the only truly epic game, complete with the best soundtrack I’ve heard so far in a video game.
Note that I wasn’t a Halo series fan. I thought Halo 1 was a mediocre game, Halo 2 was just “good”, mostly because of the energy [...]

A List of Open Source Games (wikipedia)
Many of these games are lightweight multiplayer and multi-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows)
Personal Picks:
Assault Cube
Armagetron
BZflag
FreeCiv
Must try:
OpenArena
Nexuiz

KHinsider is a website I just found for downloading (standard http) game and anime soundtracks as either normal mp3s or as ringtones (haven’t tried to download any ringtone though).
Unfortunately, in order to use the mass download feature you have to either post in the forums or refer the site to other people. So even if [...]

Based on my experience with Halo 1 and Halo 2, I think the escapist’s review of Halo 3 is probably the most accurate one out there plus it’s probably the funniest.

I played through Max Payne 2 (Gamespot Review, IGN Review) this weekend - yes I finished it in 3 days (from Friday night to Sunday night early Monday). It’s the best game I’ve played since FEAR. I have no idea why the hell I didn’t play it before since the game has been out for [...]

All the king requires is a simple offering of earth and water.

Last week I was looking for a game to play (cuz STALKER ain’t an option - it’s one of the worst games I’ve ever played, second only to a playstation game that featured a little ninja dude in “2D rainbow world” jumping at gold coins which could be described as old school Sonic meets Ninja [...]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl turned out to be nothing more than “Oblivion in Chernobyl”. Yet another boring Action/RPG or whatever you want to call it. Combat is just lame. So far the story is at least poorly told (Doom3 style PDA except worse) and you waste time just going from one place to the other. [...]

Old news but I just want to leave this here because I think it’s pretty cool. The function itself is like an artifact from another age. The article feels like a piece of ’software archeology’.
float InvSqrt (float x){
float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
int i = *(int*)&x;
i = 0×5f3759df [...]

Beta.
Beta is still defined in the dictionary as
preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product; “a beta version”; “beta software”
which implies “buggy“. I know something is wrong with the world whenever I find myself agreeing with a mac blogger.
Indeed it seems that to the general public “beta” now means “new & cool”. [...]

Yeah I know I jumped Part II
Last week I got myself a Nintendo DS Lite (black)! I’m very happy with it so far. It’s a fun way to spend some time while waiting (waiting in a line, waiting for someone,…). So far I only have one game: Brain Age. However I plan to get [...]

This is my first post after the GigaLanParty 2006 and coincidentally since the start of the semester.
GLP 2006:
- Portugal Telecom screwed us and instead of the 1Gbps that we had last year with 100Mbps reserved for the WCG, we got 200 Mbps with the same 100Mbps [...]

Once again the HP network equipment that was provided fails to perform adequately. Dantas is on his way to FEUP to get a replacement.