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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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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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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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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 »
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A psych ward patient in Holland skated on an insanity plea after he killed power to an entire hospital thinking he was solving a puzzle in Silent Hill. More »
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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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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. More »
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First announced last October, Rocket Riot, being developed by CodeGlue and published by 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. More »
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Militaries using games as training tools is nothing new; but here comes one account of a group of five gamers taking on five soldiers from the Netherlands in 'Virtual Battlefield System 2,' and scoring a resounding win (the author points out that the gamers were way ahead the soldiers in terms of familiarity with the software, which helped). It's entertaining, but also contains some musings on the future of such war games and gamers and the military. If you can forgive the typos, it's an interesting little piece on current applications and perhaps where this might lead: More »
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