Gaming A to Z
Gaming A-Z
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A
Assassin's Creed UbiSoft's latest action-adventure title set during the Third Crusade, the lead character is Altair. Fantastic high-resolution textures and particle effects and the ability to move horizontally and vertically through the environment with the entire population able to realistically react to you. The game medium is being pushed to the next-generation.Assassin's Creed website
Autodesk Now the proud owners of the most well known graphics softwares: 3d Studio Max and Maya as well as their original AutoCAD Gallery
Alien Just take a look!Alien hardware
B
Bioshock A FPS by 2K Boston/2K Australia . Set in an alternative history 1960, you are a plane crash survivor named Jack, exploring the underwater city of Rapture. Mutated beings and mechanical drones populate it. BioShock for PC was the number one seller in August 2007.Bioshoch Website
Beta Software distributed for the purpose of troubleshooting, testing, and evaluation.
BBC Micros (BBC Microcomputer System) A series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers Ltd for the BBC Computer Literacy Project operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
C
Cyberdemon Dooms legendary big baddy, one of the first FPS examples of using sound to enhance the atmosphere! You could hear it but did not encounter it until later and then run!
Cut Scene An animated or live footage sequence in a video game over which the player can not control. it breaks up the game to explain the plot, give information and set the atmosphere for the next level. Elder Scroll CutScene
D
Doom Jon Carmack, (id Software) invented the technology that made FPS possible. Doom was a very influential game to the industry.Doom 95 demo
E
Electronic Arts Founded in 1982 by Trip Hawkins who graduated from Harvard and took his MBA at Stanford. A former Apple employee, Trip built Electronics Arts into the world's largest video game publisher at the time.
He left to form 3DO in 1991, and created the most powerful and expensive! console of its time. In 2003 3DO went bankrupt selling most of its intellectual property to the publisher Ubisoft.
Gamasutra - A History of Electronic Arts
A Short History of Electonics Arts, Business Week August 2006
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Fate By Numbers A graduate project by four students in the Netherlands. Their purpose to make an Full Motion Video (FMV) game to appeal to the old school adventure gamers and introduce new people to the genre. An FMV adventure game filmed against a green screen and featuring 3D pre-rendered backdrops, following a private eye, Alice Sanger through the sci-fi/noir video environment.
Download Fate By Numbers, 1.18Gb
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Final Fantasy
G
GoldeEye
GDC
GeForce
GkRadient
Grand Theft Auto
H
Halo
Hitman
Havoc Games engine
I
Id Software
J
Japan
K
Kingdom Hearts
L
Lego Star Wars
M
Master Chief
Multi-player
Metaplace
MMOG
N
Nvidia
O
Origami
P
Pong
PSP
Pencil and Paper
PCGamer
Q
Quake
R
Resident Evil
S
Steam
Silent Hill
Stalker
Simulators
T
Tekon
U
UbiSoft
Unreal
V
Valve
Visual Studio 2008
W
Wii
World of Warcraft
X
X Box
XNA
X Mesh
Y
Y - Luminance
Z
Zelda
Z Brush
Z-Buffer
