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"The air defense locations were arranged
with maximum care around the base, since a heavy enemy air attack was
expected. The alarm was released without the early warning of the radar
systems, but the air defense was ready and quite a lot of enemy aircrafts
were shot down before they could drop their payload. The accurate preparation
avoided the worst, the moral of the soldiers rose and that helped to
dampen the strain while waiting for the next inevitable attack. "
...this is also Strike or Die
| Links
on the Web |
Here you'll
find the links to the websites I'm used to visit and that are about
programming, online gaming portals or software houses who published
games that will hardly leave my hard disk and even the websites of
some fellow independent developers. 
My
favourites
| Net
Gamers Italia |
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Their motto
is just as clear as it gets: do you want to play online? The
right place is here!
I can't but agree since I played on NGI servers since SkyDM
times... 
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| Net
Wargaming Italia |
From the ashes
of website TOAW-ITA was born Net Wargaming Italia, the
first italian portal devoted to wargames, turn based strategy
games and combat simulations. Good contents and a growing community
make up for a great website with a bright future!
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| Tom's
Hardware Guide |
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Doctor Thomas
Pabst went a long way and now his website is one of the best
for anyone searching for good articles and previews about
the PC hardware. Thanks to him I learned the dangerous art
of overclocking.
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| Hardware
Upgrade |
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The italian
Paolo Corsini tried to follow the steps of Doctor Tom and
the result of so much passion has granted him excellent results.
Simply the best italian website for PC hardware.
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| IBM
Clan |
How could I forget
to mention the site of I Butteri Maremmani, the Quake
2/Quake 3 clan to which I once belonged? Special thanks to all
the "butteracci" with whose I spent a lot of hours
fragging online.
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Game programming
| Gamedev.net |
The best site
for all wannabe game programmers. It has many interesting
articles both for beginners and experts. There's also a very
useful forum.
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| Gamasutra |
It talks about
game programming in a more professional way than Gamedev.
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| GPI |
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The first
italian website devoted to this wonderful art. Full of tutorials,
articles and interviews for all tastes. Praise to the brave
Wergio and to his many contributors.
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| ItaProGaming |
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The competition
becomes hard for the guys at GPI. The site is more recent,
but it's growing well under the direction of SiSkO and friends.
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Software
Houses
| Battlefront |
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The small
team at Battlefront really knows how to make it right and
they have won their first battle against the "generic wargame"
and publishers who look only at the profit producing a masterpiece
of realism and playability that is Combat Mission: Beyond
Overlord, a W.W.II tactical level military strategy
game with 3D graphics.
On their website is also available the "Military Reference
Library: Volume 1" by Major I. L. Holdridge, creator
of TacOps, that came in handy for the design of Strike
or Die.
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| MatrixGames |
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Even guys
at MatrixGames don't joke at all. Their motto is "the
glory in gaming is back".
Authors of the excellent Steel Panthers: World at War,
completely free remake of the homonymous classic wargame
by Gary Grisby, available to download directly from their
site, they also publish a number of high quality strategy
games.
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| ShrapnelGames |
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Well known
publisher of war and strategy games, Shrapnel Games is the
home of Armored Task Force, a wargame about modern
tactical warfare developed by Captain Patrick Proctor, and
Space Empires IV, among the other interesting games.
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| idsoftware |
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Rarely I visit
their website but I wanted to include it in this list as
a special thank to Carmack and partners for the hours spent
playing online with their creations, in particular with
Quake2.
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| Trecision |
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Trecision
is the italian software house for which I've worked for
a few months. Their latest published game is an original
3D graphic adventure, The Watchmaker, which I had
the pleasure to play. But they've got other interesting
game projects in development.
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Fellow independent
developers
| Apezone |
Andrew Ewanchyna
is a very friendly canadian, "just a guy who likes writing
computer games", as he says.
He earned its reputation thanks to Starships Unlimited,
a great space strategy game, initially sold as shareware and
then published by MatrixGames in retail version.
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| Fury
Software |
Hubert Cater
is the one man behind that great light wargame by the name
of Strategic Command, published with great success
by Battlefront in 2002. I reviewed the game for NWI.
He's canadian, too.
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