general gaming goodness

gaming -news

• Shacknews
• Voodooextreme
• Bluesnews
• Stomped
• Evil Avator

gaming -companies

• id Software
• epic "games"
• rareware

interesting info

• United States v. Microsoft Direct Testimony
• turn your geforce into a quadro
• if you ever decide to start a network between two computers, and have some ether, network card but no hub
• Japanese culture faq, (hey, you never know, you might work at nintendo one day (hint to NOA to hire me:)

graphics links

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well this enough of those "other" links ;), here are a few "specific" links that are pretty interesting. most relate to computer graphics.
 

it has taken me quite some time to come up with these links, if you know any good ones then please e-mail them to me.

• paper on roam
• peter lindstrom's page
• durands siggraph's links
• radiosity
• good book on spatial data structures
• cool lighting model explanation
• durand's main page
• jos stam's publications: (employee of Alias, material: good particle simulation, fluid simulations, basic catmull clark paper, good stuff :) jos stam is an overall cool guy :)
• Hughe's Hoppes' site, has tons of good stuff, that would appeal to both, researchers' as well as implementors. unreal tournament uses a basis of progressive mesh simplification.
• ken perlins site, cool stuff on procedural stuff
• kilgards links page, few good ones but most of them are dead
• Caltech Multi-Res Modeling Group
• Stripe Homepage
• Nvidia developer site
• good primer on network programming
• material on tribes 2 network model
• good terrain analysis page
• awesome particle system (many companies have ripped this stuff, i would name a few companies, but then i would have to kill you ;)
• art of assembly, you want to read _all_ of this, plus it's going to come in _real_ handy once vertex shaders hit main stream
• basic radiosity preprocessor, a lot of people use this as a basis to start there lighting calculations
• tony DeRose's homepage, employee at pixar, really put the kick in subdivision and is one of the leading researchers and implementors of this sub field in computer graphics.
• source code for mathematical explanations, collision detection routines, tons of good stuff.

ps2 dev links

• omg, you have to see these if you haven't seen the mini ps2 dev kit in action. (the downloads for the movies are well worth the wait)
• ps2 linux support page

other _good_ link repo's

• pierre has spend a lot of time composing his links, and his is much, much more comprehensive then mine. has url's to cloth repo's, way more complete collision links, etc.. just way better... it's over at www.codercorner.com/Links.htm