> Last week I visited London, Manchester and Birmingham with a delegation of the most promising Dutch Creative Companies. During this tour we visited all kinds of events like the entrepreneur conference in the Milky Building in Tech City (Shoreditch) on Monday, the BBC studios, a match making lunch, a meet and great with our […]

> During my tour through the UK last week I saw a lot of interesting new cases of how games can be used to promote your brand and add some relevant content to your consumers context. This Heineken concept seems really interesting. I don’t think it’s out in The Netherlands yet (UK only), but it […]

> This article has been shamelessly copied from the newsletter by the Entertainment Software Association (check www.theesa.com to subscribe) VIDEO GAMES IN THE WORKPLACE: A BOON TO BUSINESS Companies know that keeping employees motivated and monitoring their performance are key to running a successful business, and many now view entertainment software as a helpful tool […]

>As you might know – I am going on a ‘UK-Tour’ next week organized by our Ministry of Funny Walks, I mean Economic Affairs and Foreign Affairs and we’re going to visit London, Birmingham and Manchester in four days time (and then some leisure time for me in London). During the tour we will meet […]

> To be honest, I still sincerely doubt whether we will play games in this way. I would always miss ‘feedback’ whether it be through the controller in my hand, vibration, a steering wheel (makes sense driving a car)… etc. This is the same reason why a lot of people prefer a BlackBerry over an […]

> My personal best Kill-Death Ratio today in Call of Duty: 2,57… I play on PC – Join me! 😉

> It looks more like a film than a game, incredible! – Let the long-winter-days come – I need time to play games! Grand Theft Auto V looks very promising. I hope that there is character development in the game like in Fallout and World of Warcraft. Up to now the games have been a […]

> It’s great that from time to time I can still be surprised… I recently received a press release about ‘Drake – The Magazine’.In The Netherlands we’ve had magazines called Linda (the most successful), Jan, Matthijs (one-off), Felderhof and many others. Now for the first time, a magazine has been released with the name of a fictitious […]

> It looks stunning!

>Although I HATE the term ‘social gaming’ – since gaming in itself mostly is a social activity (either with other players or social interaction with your character in the game), I thought I’d post this well designed Infographic about ‘social gaming’ from Mashable, thanks to Lauren Drell. It shows you something about the economics of […]