Oğuz Can Ayverdi

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01.10.2025 18:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Edited screenshot from Disco Elysium that reads: RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] -- Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about video games. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about video games, the alpha and omega of video games questions, and that question is: 1. - (Whisper.) "Are games art?" 2. - Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.

Every time.

04.08.2025 00:07 — 👍 3885    🔁 951    💬 16    📌 12

The Elder Scrolls' weird relationship with expansions began a full decade before the horse armour DLC, in the form of a 16-quest addon to Daggerfall exclusive to one US retailer Investigating the history of the Daggerfall CompUSA special edition.

For this feature, I dug through the usenet archives to find out how players responded to the expansion in '96, and it's funny how little conversing on the Internet has changed. www.pcgamer.com/games/the-el...

27.07.2025 07:12 — 👍 28    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 2

Despelote review: an ode to a dream There’s relics. There’s jerseys and there’s songs. We have songs for everything. We still sing those songs.

Despelote is an incredible game, and @nicanor.bsky.social explains why:

noescapevg.com/despelote-re...

05.05.2025 23:16 — 👍 119    🔁 42    💬 0    📌 5

Here Come the AAAA Games… But What’s a AAA Game and Why Do We Call Them That? Where did the AAA designation come from? And what even qualifies as a AAA game? I investigated both of those questions in a piece for Warp Zoned back in 2013, and a lightly edited and updated versi…

I’ve been digging into the history of AAA games again, and would you believe the term actually goes all the way back to 1991? It’s true!

Marketers were using AAA to distinguish between “high quality” NES games versus the “inferior” 8-bit titles out there.

www.videogamecanon.com/adventurelog...

10.04.2025 12:49 — 👍 79    🔁 20    💬 5    📌 3

For @jacobinmag.bsky.social I wrote about the politics of games, including the story of what happened when the winner of the world's most prestigious board game prize dared to express solidarity with Palestine... In Berlin...
jacobin.com/2025/03/boar...

19.03.2025 11:07 — 👍 51    🔁 28    💬 1    📌 1

1/10 We study LLMs empirically, as we do for many natural systems, as distinct from traditional mathematics and formal computer science. That's OK, but don't be confused about how well we understand them. It is more like how we try to understand economics than, say, electrical engineering.

17.02.2025 16:35 — 👍 40    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.

Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...

30.01.2025 16:00 — 👍 5102    🔁 2624    💬 88    📌 294

Code written with box characters used on old old software to make fake UIs

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

25.12.2024 18:37 — 👍 5332    🔁 1294    💬 157    📌 150