April 2013
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Koningslied or: What's up with Holland
You might have heard the Dutch are going apeshit over some ‘national song’ that was composed to celebrate the crowning of their new king: Willem-Alexander. Well it turns out this song was even sillier than expected. I’ve put together a (very) rough translation of the lyrics so you can ‘experience’ it yourself. The song itself can be found here.
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November 2012
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October 2012
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Dikke pret! Speelt allen gamerecensiebingo!
Bingo. Met een heleboel mensen in een muffe zaal zit je te luisteren naar een man of vrouw die – met een ongelooflijk zouteloze intonatie - nummertjes opnoemt. Per definitie hoef je nog maar één of twee cijfers als die zuurpruim – die al de hele avond alles wint omdat hij vijftien kaartjes gekocht heeft – bingo krijst. Iedereen hoopt, tegen beter weten in, dat het vals alarm is.
De haat voor de...
August 2012
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Desert... or entrepreneurial dessert?
My very own ‘Inspirational’ speech, inspired by Ian Bogost’s wonderful Banks are Brains keynote. It’s something of an exercise in making a stupid idea sound really great, using empty buzzwords and reasoning from a silly axiom. I hope you enjoy it, and *please* don’t let this inspire you.
For a global wasteland! Good evening ladies and gentlemen. It’s nice to see such a pleasant crowd tonight! I...
June 2012
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Drs P. - Dodenrit (Trojka)
I had an afternoon off because I worked a lot this weekend. Somehow(!?) this seemed to be like a good time to translate this classic Dutch song into English as practice. You can watch the song on Youtube, and sing along!
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E3 2012: Sinister showcase
*This column has appeared in Dutch on Insidegamer.nl. I’ve translated it as an excercise, so if you can read Dutch, you’re probably better off trying the original.*
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We saw some nice stuff during E3 2012, but to be honest I viewed some of...
May 2012
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Column - ‘Social Media Stress’-stress
Dit artikel is ook te lezen op opiniesite ‘De Jaap’.
Afgelopen week verscheen een rapport, waarin gesteld werd dat ‘jongeren in de leeftijd van 13 tot 18 jaar lijden aan een serieuze vorm van ‘Social Media Stress’. Het onderzoek werd opgepikt door verschillende media, zoals het NOS Journaal en de dagbladen Trouw en Metro.
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Vrij snel werden er ook kritische noten gekraakt, zie...
April 2012
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Some thoughts on Star Wars Kinect, critics, fans
Okay, blogs about the tension between critics and fans have probably been done to death. In light of some recent events, mainly ‘Retake Mass Effect’ and the ‘Kinect Star Wars Intergalactic Dance-off’ (Yes, that’s a thing), I’m still going to get through with this nonetheless.
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Shocker! I always imagined Han Solo to be more of a rockabilly guy. It is...
March 2012
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Some thoughts on 'Little Grey Men'
According to Xenophon, ‘Men create the gods in their own image’. According to Steven Poole, this might extend to man’s extra-terrestrial adversaries as well.
(…)Videogame aliens, it thus seems, should look either like giant Earth animals or like humans, bipedal and roughly anthropoid – because deep down, we like killing humans, and that is the operative constraint on...
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Some thoughts on 'The Robert Bowling thing'
Yesterday evening, or afternoon if you live in the US, Robert Bowling announced his resignation from Infinity Ward and Activision via Twitter. Bowling held the position of ‘creative strategist’, and for some time he was ‘the face of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’. Not a particularly thankful job…
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When I started with this ‘games writing thing’...
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How Bioware is FORCING ME TO HATE Mass Effect
I’ve received some angry comments about my previous post, I’ve answered to most of them but they already ‘crusaded’ on to other people who question the sense in the ‘Retake Mass Effect’ initiative. If I’m not mistaken, one of them has been exclusively Twittering about the Mass Effect ending for a solid week. That’s… dedication. Let’s just...
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Some thoughts on 'Retake Mass Effect'
I’ve been following the controversy* around Mass Effect 3 for the last couple of days. While I haven’t got around to play the game itself, I felt pretty much obliged to read about the game’s finale.
Apparently, brave, brave Commander Shepard jumps into a particle beam and disintegrates. Then - quite literally - everything explodes, if I’m not mistaken killing either...
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January 2012
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November 2011
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Thoughts on ‘Writing for the everyday Player’
I’m not sure which one came first: the Edge column called Writing for the Everyday Player - might have missed that particular issue – or Dating Sims get Real on The Escapist. The first is an opinion article about game critics losing touch with a big part of their audience, i.e. ‘The Everyday Player’. The second one is an interview about the ‘lesbian dating sim text adventure’ called Encyclopedia...
September 2011
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