Dead Space 2 - Eye Poke Machine
The latest and likable social media campaigns
A list of social media campaigns i like for the last month, in no particular order.
See, the games community has it backwards: the point is not to “legitimize” games as art, whatever that would mean. The point is not to shoehorn games into some received, stable, agreed upon notion of what art is, as if there is such a notion. The point is to ask the question, what do videogames do to art? How do they change art, turning it into something new? It’s encouraging that the NEA has invited us to consider this question. But its answers are hardly a foregone conclusion.
— Ian Bogost - What do Videogames do to Art? In response to the recent announcement that the NEA will be offering funding to game-makers. (via dinosaurparty)
(via nerdology)
a spoonful from everything
Molly Crabapple’s work for The Electronic Frontier Foundation illustrating how Tor works and how Tor Project is cool and important.
Video oyunları Grammy’lerin yeni adayları (1) →
Recording Academy’nin yeni aldığı kararla video oyun müzikleri de artık film ve TV’nin yanında Grammy’ler için aday oluyor. Önümüzdeki yıl diğer ikisi gibi video oyunları da…
Michael Jackson gibi dans edebilin diye →
“Beat It” Michael Jackson The Experience - Xbox360/Kinect
Yeni bir Michael Jackson oyunu değil. Kasım ayında Wii, DS ve PS3 gibi platformlarda çıkan ve şimdiye dek 3 milyon kopya…
Because humans like interacting with humans, not bots. But if i were the one, i would immediately delete the post, rewrite and republish it eheh.
Social Game Studies: Call for Papers: The Social Side of Gaming →
This CFP just reached our inboxes and I thought we should share it here:
The Social Side of Gaming: International Conference on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming
Thursday 21 July to Saturday 23 July 2011, University Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Deadline: February 28, 2011
URL: …
What is firmware?
I’ve always had trouble understanding what a firmware is. It never occured to me wholly.
Few minutes back, i read on Gamasutra that digital market and web browser for 3DS would be available on day one and Nintendo told Eurogamer that both features would still require a separate update to implement, not being part of the 3DS’ “initial firmware”, but that the update would be ready “on day one.
So i wanted to know what a firmware is again. I’ve been lazy so i only looked it up on wikipedia. Still, it’s been very useful. And i found out that even IEEE notes that:
(1) This term is sometimes used to refer only to the hardware device or only to the computer instructions or data, but these meanings are deprecated. (2) The confusion surrounding this term has led some to suggest that it be avoided altogether.”
The term’s boundaries are obviously vague. It can intersect either with software or hardware more. It’s not as low-level as hardware but at the same time it’s rather embedded that you can’t interfere with firmware as easy as you can do with software.
