Great Video Game Reference Web Links
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General Gaming Sites
1UP - Loads of news, reviews, previous, and special features.
All Game - Good site covering many different console formats.
Game Informer - News, previews, media, and a subscription-based magazine with exclusive content.
Gamers Hell - Provides news and reviews, but perhaps more popular for its large download archive.
GameTab - A customizable and community-centric video game news and reviews aggregator site.
IGN - Massive site providing lots of different coverage for loads of games out there.
MMORPG - A site for news and reviews of MMORPGs.
UGO- Another site for game news, reviews, and special features.
TenTonHammer - An MMO News site
Stratics Network - A collection of Fan and News sites (also hosts the majority of "Developer Chats" for MMORPG Companies
Warcry Network - MMO News and Stories
Video Game Industry News
Gamasutra - Wonderful industry and development focused news site. Great features.
Next Generation - "The international magazine for programmers, artists, musicians, and producers."
Video Game Industry Information / Data / Statistics
Classic Game Programmers - List of Classic Video Game Programmers.
Game Innovation - A Wikipedia for Game Innovation (just getting started.)
Game Rankings - Great site to see how games are getting reviewed.
MobyGames - Fantastic resource for game credits, though it has plenty of errors.
Breaking into the Video Game Business
Sloperama - Straight-forward and honest answers about breaking into and living in the Industry.
Game Development
Journal of Game Design - Peer-reviewed journal with the idea of research in the field of game development. Quite technical. Fairly new from the list of issues. Subscription-based.
Game Development Magazine - It's been going for a few years now and really covers a wide range of topics on currrent issues in game development. Subscription-based.
Game Development Magazine - If you know French...
Mobile Game Developer- More of a news archive, but may be of interest nonetheless.
Escapist Magazine - (56k warning - lots of images) Seems to be about providing insights and stories about the industy rather than game-development proper (at least from what I gather).
Game Studies - A combination of research, reviews, insights, etc... Interesting and free.
GameDev - Awesome resource site, with many helpful tools for beginners and professionals alike!
IGDA- If you havent signed up at IGDA yet, go on over and do it now!
Rules of Game Design - A list of community-contributed guidelines for game design. Also known as "The 400."
Erasmatazz - Chris Crawford's library of articles on game design.
Programming
Game Programming Wiki - Impressive Game Programming Wiki, sponsored by Grubby Games.
Krugle - Programmers' search engine.
Hardware
Guru3D - Constant stream of news aon the latest technological developments, especially PC hardware aimed at gamers. Also includes quite a lot of hardware reviews.
Other
Yahoo Game Magazine Directory - A list of various video game magazines, not necessarily related to game development.
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