Oğuz Can Ayverdi
@oguzcanayverdi.bsky.social
Digital humanities student, software engineer
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Despelote's fifth trailer a) is great and b) made me sad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXK...
DESPELOTE: FIFTH TRAILER (now on nintendo switch)
YouTube video by Panic
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December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Despelote's fifth trailer a) is great and b) made me sad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXK...
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Slugblaster forever
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Slugblaster forever
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![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vxd243huv5hwsr5ndayzg5/bafkreicudb35rekzllkc5eziojnfoxneeb27tibhnjy7u5picuc5y7z25u@jpeg)
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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...
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.
www.pcgamer.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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...
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Despelote is an incredible game, and @nicanor.bsky.social explains why:
noescapevg.com/despelote-re...
noescapevg.com/despelote-re...
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.
noescapevg.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Despelote is an incredible game, and @nicanor.bsky.social explains why:
noescapevg.com/despelote-re...
noescapevg.com/despelote-re...
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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...
Marketers were using AAA to distinguish between “high quality” NES games versus the “inferior” 8-bit titles out there.
www.videogamecanon.com/adventurelog...
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…
www.videogamecanon.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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...
Marketers were using AAA to distinguish between “high quality” NES games versus the “inferior” 8-bit titles out there.
www.videogamecanon.com/adventurelog...
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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...
jacobin.com/2025/03/boar...
March 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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...
jacobin.com/2025/03/boar...
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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.
February 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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.
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The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
library.gamehistory.org — Now in early access
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
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January 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...
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You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…
December 25, 2024 at 6:37 PM
You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…