[stephendicato]

I loved this talk from David Aldridge of Bungie detailing the networking in Halo: Reach:

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014345/I-Shot-You-First-Networ...

...and a link to bungie.net for the slides:

http://downloads.bungie.net/presentations/David_Aldridge_Pro...

Bungie has some awesome publications on art, design, and engineering.