Reminder - Accepting Submissions

Just a reminder that you can still place a submission for February's Carnival of Gamers. Slashdot Games is hosting next month's moving blog event, which features some of the most interesting gaming commentary in the gaming blogosphere. We've discussed the Carnival several times in the past, with the most recent carnival hosted on the blog 'Kill Ten Rats'. If you're interested, send in your link to (carniegrue (at) gmail.com).

FAQ - I didn't know what the hell this was about

[Eightyford]

What is this Carnival of Gamers you speak of?

The Carnival of Gamers is a bi-weekly monthly gathering of video game bloggers at a central location. The premise behind the Carnival of Gamers is similar to those of other "Blog Carnivals" -- it is a showcase of blogs that are about video games. Some of the participating blogs are almost exclusively about video games while others deal with a wide range of topics, from music and movies to politics and punditry to video game design. The Carnival of Gamers has an open format. Anyone wishing to participate in the Carnival is welcome. While the Carnival is hosted by a different blog each time, its entries are currently unedited and unfiltered. We reserve the right to filter entries in the future, but as it stands now, we accept all entries and present them as-is. This did cause a bit of a furor with the first Carnival but that seems to have settled down now.

Re:FAQ - I didn't know what the hell this was abou

[Eightyford]

Thank you!

Not Troll

[larsoncc]

The link I provided is from this page: The Carnival of Gamers home page [buttonmashing.com].

My apologies if it looked like a scam site, but really - it's about the article. I just didn't know what this /. post was all about, until I read that post. Looks like I'm not the only one that was confused. When I posted, there were no other comments on the page, so I thought what I was doing was more along the lines of Informative.

Re:Not Troll

[British]

Don't worry, this is Slashdot. Use of of obscure acronyms without any definition to them in stories are 100% common. It is assumed you know linux front to back. I can only imagine it being worse in the Games section.

Please someone

[cheaphomemadeacid]

SHOOT that word blogosphere, it's killing me...

Re:

[account_deleted]

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Gaming Blogs

[L7_]

Gaming blogs are for people that don't actually play the games, and would rather write about them than fire them up and play them.

I'm sure that there are incentives to being a gaming journalist, but I don't know any "journalist" that has stayed up 3 days straight camping for an Everquest drop (just to get spawn jumped) or bought 14 different mice before returning 13 just to see which gets you the most headshots. You know, attributes of real gamers.

People that play World of Therycraft instead of actually

Re:Gaming Blogs

[mofomojo]

Of course, no body could ever possibly write about something that interests them, right?

Oh no, of course not, such could never ever ever ever fucking happen, right?
Hey, look, I'm writing something pertaining to videogames right now instead of doing a raid of WoW, I guess I'm not a real gamer.

Point made, I'm right your wrong, now shoo, carry your tail between your legs and waddle away.

>:(

Re:Gaming Blogs

[inkless1]

I'm sure that there are incentives to being a gaming journalist, but I don't know any "journalist" that has stayed up 3 days straight camping for an Everquest drop (just to get spawn jumped) or bought 14 different mice before returning 13 just to see which gets you the most headshots. You know, attributes of real gamers.

I don't think that makes you a "real" gamer over other people. I think it just means you have a lot of time on your hands.

The only time I ever got up early at my grandmother's was to play P