Bobby Ågren runs a store in Copenhagen, Denmark, called Ruben & Bobby. It’s a hair salon. Oh, and it also sells old video game systems, old video games and old toys. Making it a hair salon/game store/cultural museum.
Denmark bans the advertisement of energy drinks, I guess because they provide gratuitous amounts of energy or something. What’s that got to do with video games? Well, EA Sports MMA is shot through with energy drink ads.
Either Sony’s gotta cut its price or the Danish kroner’s gotta get a lot weaker against the dollar for the PSPgo’s sake. It’s listed at 2,000 DKK — or AU$454, one reason retailers there aren’t stocking the thing.
It figures that, when the Brütal Legend soundtrack was revealed, it would come out of a place like Denmark. They take their metal seriously, and EA Denmark has the list of more than 100 songs in the game.
A Danish mother has at last paid back years of refrigerator finger-paintings of her as a stick figure with circle boobies and a triangle skirt. Nothing says motherly love like a Riddick box cover painting.
We’ve heard of this in the States before, but if you game super loud in Denmark, especially in shooters with loud bang-bang noises, someone might sic a police strike force on you too.
If you’re a Danish youngster who games (and lives in Copenhagen), you could soon have the opportunity to attend a gaming school. I’m not exactly sure where the education part of this all fits in – are we talking extracurricular programs or an entire curriculum focused on gaming? – but after talks with the Korean e-sports organisation KeSPA, the joint project between Copenhagen eSports and a Danish youth group called Ungdomsringen is getting underway: