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Descent 3's source code has been released for free use

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Programmer Kevin Bentley put out (most) of the 1999 game's source code for players to help maintain and use for their own ends.

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Ethical Games looking to craft industrywide ethics code, seeks developer input

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The game industry lacks a solid code of ethics, and the organization hopes to create one with long-term benefits for developers and players alike.

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Team Fortress 2 Source Code Released

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GameFromScratch.com Team Fortress 2 Source Code Released Today as part of the Source SDK update, Valve have released the entire source code of Team Fortress 2, both client and server side. This source code is released under a non-commercial license which enables you to create from a mod to an entire game using the source code.

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The original Far Cry 's source code has been leaked, uploaded online

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Having source code for the original Far Cry out in the wild ensures the game may get to be preserved in history and opens it up to modification by players.

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New Rockstar leak reveals GTA code, canceled studio projects

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Source code for GTA V was leaked, revealed now-scrapped projects like story DLC and Bully 2 were in development.

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EA Release Command & Conquer Series Source Code

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GameFromScratch.com EA Release Command & Conquer Series Source Code EA have just released the source code for several games in the Command & Conquer series ( Command & Conquer (Tiberian Dawn), Red Alert, C&C Renegade, and C&C Generals and Zero Hour ) under the GPL v3 license.

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What makes code “hard coded” compared to other code, why is it so difficult to change, and why would developers hard code something rather than use normal code?

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In order to understand how something is "hard coded", you need to understand what we do to the code in order to make it run on your device. Code is written in a human-readable format, but there is a lot of optimization and changes that get done to the code before the device can run it.

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