Well we all love gaming dont we . In this post i look at few of the people who have made a diffrence in this field, without them the gaming scenario would have been very much diffrent .

John Carmack

If you are a true action gamer , you would recognize him at once . If not for him , we wouldnt have experianced the legendary FPS -> DOOM which is regarded as one of the best action games of all times . He is also the co-founder of id Software and is also behind the DOOM 3 engines which is being used in games like Quake 4 , Prey etc .

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Well EA Sports is once again back with there much awaited demo of FIFA 07 . The demo is of around 568 MB in size and after playing it for a couple of days i can say that it is much better than its previous versions .

The demo contains 6 teams from around the world like Manchester United , Barcelona , Werder Bremen , Lyon , AC Milan and one from the Mexican division . The demo doesnt let you modify any of the graphics setting or let you know in which difficulty level are you playing and features 4 minutes of good gameplay . The demo features a single stadium only and which is none other than the new “Emirates Stadium” of Arsenal .

Gameplay : Gameplay is much more improved than the previous version . You can pass the ball around , do some wonderful tricks with players such as Ronaldo or Ronaldinho etc . Scoring is also not that much easy here , though experianced players will find it easy , the keeper is much more realistic , they tend to punch a lot when crosses come in, and sometimes miss, dont get enough purchase on the ball etc… . The new physics on the ball are also cool, it bounces up awkwardly on occasions making it difficult to control, especially as the opposition applies the pressure on you. Handball is still in the game, and you can now earn (or giveaway) silly freekicks when jostling for the ball when its in the air. Some nice animations when this occurs as well, you can see the players actually leaning back, etc. EA have also focused on skill moves this time . The animation is top drawn and much more fluid .

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In my previous posts i mentioned that Microsoft has released XNA Game Studio Express to enable anyone to program game for the Windows and the XBOX . Here are a few Links which contains tutorials , examples , videos to get you started .

MSDN Forums : Microsoft developers Network forums is an ideal place to find out about XNA . It has a separate Game Technologies Forum as well as a XNA Blog .

Some other MSDN blogs related to this are

Paul Stubbs Blog : Application Customization with .NET

Gary Kacmaricks’s Blog : Articles and tutes

XNATutorial.com : Some Video Tutorials

Krishna’s Space : Contains Intro to XNA / Learning Stuff

XNADevelopment.com : Source Codes and Tutorials

LearnXNA.com : Articles and Video Tutorials

XNASpot.com : Tutorials , codes , articles and more

George Clingerman’s Blog : Tutorials and Games