It’s funny that I managed to kept this page for so long without knowing this, but there’s another website that has been generating graphics from GameSpy stats (as this one does) for a very long time. It’s called Gstats2 and hosted on NoFrag.com, a French gaming portal (so the website itself is in French too).

The graphics seem a bit more generic (covering the 15 or so top games only, with less precise graphics being generated even though they do make hourly reads too), but what’s more important is that the thing has been running since early 2003, at least one year and a half more than this Zeitgeist. Graphics can also be generated dynamically, so it’s possible to create custom graphics on the fly.

For a non-First Person Shooter player, it should be pretty hard to understand some of the talk involved on a discussion about FPS titles, since the usage of acronyms instead of game titles is so common. This website is also a culprit at that, often mentioning only a few letters instead of the whole name and even featuring it on the mod graphics (for space economy purposes though).

With that in mind, and for future reference, here’s a list of acronyms used through the website – both on my posts and on the graphics. This comes straight from the game database used by the system.

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And since we’re approaching the 2 years mark for the website, I figured I’d do a little special something and generate one big graphic with the whole 2-year range. So check it out.

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You know, I’ve started this website some two years ago as I do with most of my websites and general time-wasting projects: as an experiment, with no clear goal in mind, just to learn something (regular expressions under PHP, on this case) and do something fun in the process (look at how the online game presence of certain games progressed).

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