In Real Life

Belgian Lolitas Dancing. Belgians Wearing Funny Costumes. Belgians Kicking Ass

The Japan Expo Belgium 2011 was held in Belgium, with folks dressing up like Japanese anime and game characters. And other people beating the crap out of each other.


October 11, 2011
In Real Life

Sonic Commemorated In The Most Boring Way Possible

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of Sonic the Hedgehog. And nothing says “old, possibly dead but worth a token remembrance anyway” like commemorative postage stamps.


January 16, 2011
In Real Life

Belgian Postage Stamps Honor — New Super Mario Bros. Wii?

bpost, the postal service of Belgium, will put stamps featuring New Super Mario Bros. Wii on sale beginning Monday. Looks like it offers Mario with three different powerups, plus Yoshi. A sheet is €4,99. [via Polygonal Lawn, thanks Philip]


July 12, 2010
In Real Life

What Do Women Look For In A Video Game?

Kotaku AU

Pretty much the same thing as I do, it turns out. Am I a female gamer?


May 4, 2010
In Real Life

The Building Blocks Of Video Games

Like movies, the design of games can often be reduced to a set of “building blocks”, various elements that you can combine to form the final product. It’s an abstract concept, but one that’s perfectly illustrated in this… card game.


November 11, 2008
Uncategorized

Complete Street Fighter IV Character Roster Revealed?

An eagle-eyed Belgian gamer at the N.E.X.T. games expo took a pic of what is probably the character select screen from Street Fighter IV’s console version.


October 31, 2008
News

Belgium Cracks Down On…Game Rentals

In June, the Belgian Entertainment Association (representing game publishers, of course) managed to convince Belgian authorities to outlaw game rentals. On the grounds that renting games made a sizeable dent in game sales. Part of that deal was that, from June, video stores couldn’t buy any new games to rent out, but could keep on renting out the ones they had until December. Well, with December approaching, Belgian paper De Standaard has confirmed that, come December 1, Belgians won’t be able to rent video games. At all. Bet the publishers are happy with that one! Pity about the, you know. Gamers.


November 26, 2007
Uncategorized

Piss-Controlled Racing Game Shut Down By Cops

Piss Screen, of which we’ve spoken previously, has been shut down at a games show by Belgian police (a little while ago, yes, but news from the urinal gaming scene travels slowly). The game showed up for display at Belgium’s GamePower Expo, in Gent, but once there police believed the game to be “indecent” and had it removed. Despite the whole point of the thing being to discourage/prevent people from drink-driving. Ah well. Looks like it’s back to care-free games of “don’t cross the streams!” for the men of Belgium, then. Urinal game banned by killjoy Belgium police [Engadget, via GamePolitics]


November 11, 2007
Uncategorized

Playstation Heist In Belgium

Kotakuite Bargo sends in this little story from Belgium via De Standaard Online. Thankfully he translated because I couldn’t read a word of the original source myself. Apparently, two thieves entered a warehouse with automatic weapons and tied up the warehouse manager. They then proceeded to load a truck with three hundred Playstations which must have been grueling as it is reported that it took them two hours to haul in their purloined booty. The estimated cost of the incident rolls in around 150,000 Euros. Ouch! No leads on the robbers or their whereabouts, but fortunately the warehouse manager was unharmed. Looks like the Belgian PS3 black market is about to get very full.

Overvallers stelen 300 Playstation-consoles in Vorst [De Standaard Online]