Academic Journal on Computer Games
Espen Aarseth writes: "The world's first academic journal on computer games, Game Studies, is now online. With several international conferences and a peer-review journal, 2001 is the year that the academic world finally takes computer and video games seriously."
FPS's are FPS-intensive. But modern architecture allows for even these applications to be developed using high-level API calls and maintainable, less efficient code.