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Video Game Helps People Forge Stronger Relationships… With Pigs

2:00AM January 13, 2012 | Mike Fahey

We breed them, kill them, cook them. Millions of man-hours have been spent flinging Angry Birds at them, but has anyone ever tried playing video games with them? A team of livestock ethics researchers and game designers in the Netherlands is doing just that with Pig Chase. More »


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Dutch Broadcaster Admits ‘Slavery: The Game’ Trailer Was Viral Ad

8:00AM September 8, 2011 | Owen Good

The trailer for “Slavery: The Game”, suspected to be a fake, is in fact so. Dutch broadcaster NTR made it as part of a viral campaign for a documentary series about the nation’s history in the slave trade. More »


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Check Out The World’s Largest Working NES Controller

8:00AM May 19, 2011 | Owen Good

Students at a Dutch university on Tuesday unveiled what they claim is the world’s largest working Nintendo Entertainment System controller, some 30 times bigger than the console’s actual game pad. It’s so big, the only way to manipulate the D-pad or buttons is to stand on them More »


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Let’s Sit Down And Grow A Tree

8:30PM November 1, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

Phew. So many shooters out at the moment, or games set in the apocalypse, or that just involve killing things. What we need is to relax for a moment and just grow a tree. More »


In Real Life

Netherlands Hospital Blackout Blamed On Silent Hill

2:00PM December 2, 2009 | Owen Good

A psych ward patient in Holland killed power to an entire hospital thinking he was solving a puzzle in Silent Hill. More »


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Dutch Retailer Refuses To Sell PSPgo

11:00PM September 16, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

According to a report on Eurogamer, Dutch chain Nedgame—the country’s largest specialist games retailer—are refusing to stock Sony’s PSPgo. More »


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A DS In The Red Light District

7:30PM August 8, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

Simon Parkin’s written a piece over on GameSetWatch about a little trip he took to to Amsterdam. Nothing saucy or inhaled, mind you, just a bunch of impressions of one of the city’s more adult tourist attractions. That and the brief tale of a walk past a young girl, in one of said attraction’s shop “windows”, and her dalliances with a Nintendo DS. Nothing newsy there, no screenshots or video clips for you to pore over, nothing that you can feverishly pass on to 100 friends as the latest “internet thing” for the day. It’s just a really nice piece, about a girl and a DS.

COLUMN: Chewing Pixels: ‘Sex and Tetris’ [GameSetWatch]

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Rockets, Riots, Yeah, This Is A Rocket Riot

6:30PM April 10, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

First announced last October, Rocket Riot, a collaboration between Coin-Op, CodeGlue and THQ, is looking great. Slated for release sometime later this year on Xbox Live Arcade, here are some early screens of the game in progress, which show that, hey, you can make a Worms clone look interesting.

Rocket Riot [Coin-Op, via Shard @ NeoGAF]

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