Kotaku: belgium

Complete Street Fighter IV Character Roster Revealed?

Stuart Houghton — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:00:00 MST

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.

Unless it isn't. Internets is internets, after all.

Assuming it is legit though, there are at least 26 playable characters - all the usual gang of Blanka, Chun Li, Zangief et al plus returning favourites like Gouken. There is some speculation that Rose from Street Fighter Alpha is lurking demurely on the bottom row.

Rose @ N.E.X.T Expo (Brussels) [Shoryuken Forums]

Belgium Cracks Down On...Game Rentals (Update)

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:30:00 MDT

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.

Videogames verhuren plots verboden [De Standaard, thanks everyone!]

UPDATE - Seems the De Standaard report left a few things out. Namely that the root of the problem has been that rental stores have been buying retail copies of games then renting them, instead of paying publishers the licensing money for a rental copy. Cheeky. So that's what the BEA are cracking down on. If a rental store wants to pay for a rental copy (which we guess they never do), they're more than welcome to rent games to their heart's content.

Playstation Heist In Belgium

fdemarco — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:00:00 MST

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]

Hey Belgian People! Scratch Pac-Man, Win Money

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:24:35 MDT

The Belgium National Lottery will start selling Pac-Man scratch cards next Monday. Each will cost 2,50 euros and offer prize money up to 60.000 euros. This is the first time for Belgium to have a lotto with a video game theme, but not the first for Pac-Man. Namco really knows how to cash in on Pac-Man. Literally. Brian Ashcraft

More Here [Shizzle Games] Thanks, Karsten!