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It lives! Or, yes I am still here, wandering the world of the interwebs in different guises, using social networks and the almost web3.0 stuff. Perhaps I will even reinstate this blog in former glory. We'll see!

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Z.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224056.post-33078427657153998802008-11-09T23:47:00.001+01:002008-11-09T23:48:51.364+01:00

Got to love.. Zoe Keating and her cello. Hopefully she'll visit the Netherlands sometime soon.

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Z.noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224056.post-25153537207698349792008-09-07T14:14:00.003+02:002008-09-07T14:16:25.335+02:00

I seem to have a thing with shoes/boots lately, also... red! I disliked red for quite some time, is my taste changing? Hmmmmm.

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Yet another documentary about players that are absorbed in virtual worlds one way or another. Somehow these documentaries always leave me with a somewhat awkward feeling afterwards. Of course I'm an avid WoW player and I feel rather normal, but these documentaries seem to have found the categories of players that are just a bit off. How will it ever be a legitimate way of spending time (like

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Trailer says it all?Okami? Ico? Tales of ..? God of War? Have I said Okami yet? Why... is it that the female has to be caught in his (the prince's) arms every time? She has all kinds of abilities but apparently she is the fragile female that should be caught in an embrace. Will we ever learn? javascript:void(0)

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Yessiree... IF I really want to have -all- the peripherals of all music games I should buy a new home... I just love, love, love music games ever since I saw the Bemani stuff from Konami back in the 90s, so it's supposed to be heaven for me these years, but it's a pain I tell you, a pain, as I'm obsessed with having all that stuff within reach and also declaring ownership over it but ... there is

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Been to Leonard Cohen concert yesterday evening. It was .. magical.Loved this:

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http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/37257. Amazing how they never fixed it in the beta stages of the game. At least -someone- should have noticed the differences between the attackpower of both genders?' Let me begin with saying “yes, we here at Funcom agree with you; this is an unacceptable bug”. We never intended for any character to be stronger/weaker than another based on its gender, and we have

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Been hanging out with the former lead designer of Spore's Creature Creator, Chaim. Really fun guy, brilliant mind. Forgot to take a picture with him.. doh... Also met other interesting people, which I can't remember the names of.

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Very into Nerf lately, still a bit confused that SteamPunk is everywhere all of a sudden including spicing up the Nerf guns! Love it!By courtesy of Gizomodo. Find more pics of this gun at: http://gizmodo.com/383943/steampunk-nerf-rifle-lets-you-get-victorian-on-someones-ass

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Love love love it!!Electroplankton on a NDS and two iPhones = Win! Did I say I totally love it? I say it again!Their website:

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I recently rediscovered Flash Flash Revolution (thanks to my students), a webbased version of Dance Dance Revolution, which is playable with the directional keys on the keyboard. People can share videos of their skills, some real craziness to be found there!

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This is great, people really have a nick for doing unexpected things with given technology. In the next youtube movie (from CNET) a couple of guys took some codes, laptops and guitar hero controllers and turned it all into a device that can be used to make music or synthesized sounds. The movie explains it all:Ever seen a pizza slice play Guitar Hero? Now you will! This slice even has a

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Currently trying to set something up for game preservation. I came across the Gameology emulation blog post from Laurie, which asks the question: when is emulation enough?Myself I appreciate the emulation scene to preserve games that way, as digitalizing through emulation saves a lot of space and issues with hardware compatibility. Personally I prefer however the game as it was originally

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Ohh never saw a connection between Boingboings Cory Doctorow and Wonderland's Alice... but seems they have been an 'item' for quite some time now, resulting in this wonderful little 'mutant' as they call it. Congrats both of you! That's gotta turn out to be one helluva tech-savy, home-knitting, gadgetminded, writing, amazing girl. Hurray!Oh and check out this brilliant Little Big Planet puppet. I

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Everyone wants to dip into the success of the Wii. And no I'm not talking about the Sixaxis controller of the Playstation 3, but the 'cheap' versions of the actual Wii. In the Netherlands a gameconsole got released called the "Vimax", 50 Euros for a crap computer with a 'vimote' that registers some movement but is not really sensitive to all your movements, images are not even vaguelly resembling

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Was looking for some numbers and figures about the gamesindustry, more specifically the general number of game (software) releases in 2007. Haven't found any real numbers on it, wonder if those stats are available and if I'm just googling with the wrong terms.According to ELSPA, NPD and ESA the industry faced a staggering growth in sales last year (2007) which is great of course. As many people

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Currently preparing classes and considering using some social networksites and tools for teaching. Ning seems to be useful to create your own social network and there are even options for educational purposes (see education.ning) such as ning availability without ads for free. I signed up for at least two ning networks: Classroom 2.0 and Bibliotheek 2.0 (Library 2.0) recently. But with all these

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Greg Pattillo and Eric Stephenson doing their thing on the cello and flute. I especially like the part from 01:22 on. I want to hear more cello pieces like that.

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I love to watch Beatbox vids, as it is amazing to see and hear what the human voice is capable of. Everyonce in a while I go through these stages that I watch a whole lot of them. Today I stumbled upon the brilliant one you can watch below. In the Paris subway a group of people suddenly burst out singing and beatboxing. And what a superb job they do! Obviously I had to find out who they were and

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To be honest, I never heard of these Paternosters, until I saw this vid, the comments on it all focus on the dangerous looking elevators. And they really -do- look dangerous! People stepped in and out cabinets that moved up and downward without stopping. Of course I was curious what they are and where I can find them to try it out myself. Apparently those elevators are called Paternoster, and are

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Interesting quote which is related to a short note about the whole affair with Jeff Gerstmann, a Gamespot game editor that supposedly got sacked for writing a negative review about that one game, all of the gamesindustry got buzzing about it (see Penny Arcade Comic also) :If you pick up your average lifestyle magazine you'll note that nobody is hauling Karl Lagerfeld over hot coals because his

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familiar...Yes I can relate to a bunch of what Stacey, freelance writer in NY, has to say in this Escapist column.

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Might be an oldie for most, but felt I had to share it anyways:

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(via interaction culture)

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Useful and interesting read: MTV's Multiplayer blog interviewed five women working in the game industry one way or another: G4's Morgan Webb, GGA's Jane Pinckard and others. There was a lot of reader response and Multiplayer gave the women the opportunity to respond to comments such as: “Let’s say you’ve got someone who’s championing the cause of women in a specific industry, and she’s all about

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There was some discussion about not enough information about gameresearch and different cultures readily and publicly available.Gamescultures.org should cater to that."The basic philosophy behind GamesCultures.org is to share informationbetween researchers, and to situate it within some, particularlygeographical, social and cultural contexts."Everyone is invited to contribute.Blogged with Flock

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Blogged with Flock

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Only when i checked the Facebook "Women in games International' group I found out about this magazine that apparently exists since May 2007.Mission Statement of Cerise Magazine:At its core, Cerise is a resource by and for women gamers. We are dedicated to increasing the voices of underrepresented identities in the game development industries and in gamer communities. Cerise is a monthly

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I totally fell in love with this kitty: Isn't it just adorable?The creator states it is an original design, and she will never ever get that fabric again, limited edition! Anyone? It's my birthday soon *nods and breaks away from the green kitty*

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Lovable, huggable and simply beautiful, not to mention it's... green! Find the description at: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7601904(thanks to Alice of reminding me of Etsy continuously)

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(much better version available on gametrailers.com)

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Heard yesterday that it was really amazing, and that he just had to share it with someone. Play! A Video Game Symphony is touring for some time now, and currently performing in top locations in Europe. Featuring about twenty videogame songs with a live orchestra and choir, gamers can relive some of their best moments in videogames and even the grannies and nannies can enjoy listening to the music

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Leopard, the upgrade for Mac OS X officially launched, reading up on some reviews now.Still looking good although I might wait a bit with the upgrade.A review can be found here. Blogged with Flock

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Found a lovely site where you can create your own avatar with a few simple tools.http://avatarmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtmlResult:Blogged with Flock

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It's almost like they interviewed me, I share most of the girl's perspectives, it made me chuckle. I am glad I am not the only one having some of these opinions."You always get those guys who just wouldn't think that you know anything, so they'd just be like, 'Oh, can I talk to the assistant manager, can I talk to that guy over there instead of you?' And then they'd be confused when you, you

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A few years ago I was in Vancouver to attend the Digra conference there and present a bit of my own work. This year's choice for location for the Digra Conference is Tokyo, Japan... I want to go to Japan for as long as I remember and have now to watch and see many of my colleagues and friends go to my beloved traveldestination. I wish I was there. But for now I have to keep myself satisfied and

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Funny, whenever I have to answer the question: 'What is your favorite game and why?' I always try to come up with a console game, it never crosses my mind to say 'World of Warcraft' while that is something I have been playing for almost three years now. Read an article in the Escapist about how Blizzard is actually marketing WoW as a videogame and not as a MMO specifically. I wonder why I still

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I am totally in love with this website for a Japanese Sushi restaurant. Even though I have no idea where they are based, some spanish language country, must be.Other than that, they really know what they are on about! Amazing design.Have a look at http://www.samuraisushi.com.ar/

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It amazes me how Blizzard has managed to make a (in my opinion) boring sports, equally boring in World of Warcraft... fishing. I've tried with several characters to get some skill in fishing but gave up on it time and time again. Now however I have a goal with it, I want to get my balance druid some nice fishies to get some extra buffs on spirit and spell damage, plus you can find the occasional

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Sometimes it makes you wonder if Blizzard Entertainment called their MMORPG World of Warcraft on purpose, as it has a very convenient abbreviation, everytime someone makes that exclamation of surprise, a lot of people would be reminded of 'that game'. The results in the Urban Dictionary give us some insight into the term and popular thought and have some interesting links with what Wow is

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Wow... I've seen the iPhone in person, even held it in my hands and fiddled around with it a while! It's truly a great gadget. You want to slide away all day with something like that. Don't know about the phonefunction as it's not working in Europe yet. Of course I went to have a look for all of the other functions. Unfortunately no wireless access point in the neighbourhood so no trying out of

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I think Fischerspooner would do a great job in Guitar Hero for some reason. They remind me in some way of Freezepop, my favourites in Frequency, Amplitude and Guitar Hero.From their myspace site:Fischerspooner is an art and performance project created and helmed by Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner that makes music, dance, fashion, film and photography. Straddling genres in art and entertainment,

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Admittedly it's a bit of a cheesy video 'ad' but it works for me! I'm ready for leopard now!

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Oh yeah.... totally wanted drummania for years now, as I wanted guitar freaks. And then came Harmonix. Talked about Frequency and Amplitude earlier on this blog, but what Harmonix comes up with now..after Guitar Hero.... I really really want it!

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Currently fiddling with my blogger template. Wish I had access to Skitch already, so I could easily show my old template/layout of my blog. Guess I have to do it different then and actually upload it the old way. Quite the hassle to find a picture perfect template which you don't have to tweak too much. Unfortunately lost all of my links as I had to convert to the classic template style in

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At some point today when browsing I came across Viddler. It's an 'open video sharing platform' where you can upload your own video's, record video's directly from your webcam (!), put them online and tag them with your own comments at every frame/second, part of the video you like (timed tags/comments) and let others comment as well. This gives you the chance to put online a lecture and tag them

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Came across the new book from Mia Consalvo: Cheating, Gaining Advantage in Videogames.She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups), examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating, describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating, and studies online cheating in context in an online ethnography of Final Fantasy XI

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Following from the cute sock puppet Plasq (the mascotte for Plasq) which I noticed via Twitter, I arrived at the site of Skitch. It's an app that makes it easier to share your images, or more likely your actions on your screen at that moment. Of course you can type what you just said to your friend, or upload a screen to Photobucket but why all the hassle? Skitch is the next answer. Haven't been

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Was just watching the first episode of the NBC series Heroes where so many people are talking about lately, I just had to check it out for myself. Halfway through two of the characters were in a bar in Japan and in the background I spotted two guys doing Karaoke, singing along some Backstreet boys song. All of a sudden I got this revelation that those might actually be the Back Dormitory boys

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her iPhone, with Web 2.0 applications!http://www.apple.com/iphone/Edit launchday iPhone:It's only such a small queue.. really disappointing *nods*:

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Hadn't looked on the Digiplay Initiative site for a while but they restyled it and for the better! It runs on Drupal which is an interesting web 2.0 application. Good to see a great example of its use. The site looks really good with a timeline, events (workshops, seminars, conferences), that nice little feature of reading material on the right (with picture of the book mentioned), cfp's, not to

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Web 2.0 is hot, maybe even more than that. At the moment I'm interested in it myself for several reasons. I really wish I could go to the conference that will be held next week in San Franscisco called... Web 2.0 Expo. At least that's clear. Thanks to Alice for posting it on her blog. I make sure to check out the several blogs and probably videostreams to keep me posted and updated about the

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If you like your music to play in the background but don't want to go through the trouble to sort all your music out and give it proper names and categorizations... Pandora is such a useful tool or program. The idea is not new but I think they worked it out well. Just type in an artist or song you like and the program will scan through a long range of music, analyzes it and in turn it will come

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My jaw dropped today. I heard that Sony wants to know if the numbers of pre-orders that gameshops and retailers said to have, are a truthful number. Seeing how the Playstation 3 sells in the US and Asia I can understand why they want to know. Of course you can ask retailers to tell what number of preorders they have. But in my opinion they really cross the line with their next step in their surge

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Internet Research 8.0: Let's play sounds interesting enough. It's in Vancouver too. Lovely place!Would love to play in Vancouver with other researchers again. But I guess it's first looking for a new job.Check the conference here: http://conferences.aoir.org/overview.php?cf=6

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Oh! They've made some changes again within blogger. Finally I get to choose labels! Had they given me that two years ago I would have been most pleased. Now I just wouldn't know where to start with applying labels. Oh and dragging and dropping to change layouts of your blogs with just a few simple steps.. hmm I wonder where they got that from.Ah well, always nice to try out different things.

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I opened my gmailbox the other day and whaddyaknow... I received mail from Blizzard. Now I know that's not extraodinary but it made me quite happy... it contained a beta key for Burning Crusade! I rubbed my eyes and it was still there. After some doubt I decided to install it (I could as well have made over a hundred Euro's by selling it, do I really want to know up front what we'll get when TBC

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Wiiiii! I'm going to play the Wii 14 November. Can't wait! Although ever since some game called World of Warcraft Beta had nestled itself on my desktop, I hardly touch my game consoles these days, I really look forward to this launch. My gameshop is planning on doing it big, with a whole lot of media attention and such and in the middle of the night of course.I wonder how big the actual

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A sad day indeed. How can something like this happen? Sony doesn't score high eyes with me this way. Europe seems of no importance to them and they have ways to make sure they stay on 'top of everything'. whatever that means. I just don't have words for this. Lik-Sang was a brilliant shop for everything a gamer could wish for, rare stuff indeed.Lik-Sang you will be missed.From the Lik-Sang

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Thank you Eurogamer.net for updating so promptly, without even pressing F5/ refresh, we knew what was going on at the Nintendo conference almost to the second Iwata was telling it. I felt like being there...So...Nintendo Wii: Europe launch : 8 December (1 year and 6 days after Xbox 360 launch)€ 249, -White Bundle, One Wiimote, one Nunchuck, Wii SportsAnd yes!! Zelda Twilight Princess is a

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Following the live report from Eurogamer.net now.. So exciting!!But what..."In the very near future we'll be launching another console that will go even further in making games accessible and fun for everyone."*gasps* waits....

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Omg... I wasn't very positive about the release of the Playstation 3, as I certainly didn't believe the release would actually be in November this year and hey what do you know... today the word came out... Europe won't get their hands on a Pal version of the big Ufo before March 2007. Sigh.You would almost think there aren't any gamers in Europe, period. How come we always get the goods last?

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"You only realise something you are, when you are surrounded by something you are not."

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It's boiling out here... too warm to move, to play guitar hero, to play WoW...to do anything really. The best place I can think of being right now is the supermarket which has airco... it's sad. Luckily this heat will only go on about a week or something...The joy!Not much to write either, nothing except for going to London for a few days next weekend. I'm looking forward to it! Oh and I think my

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Well so much for posting something every week... Been busy working, teaching and of course my all-time favourite game WoW asked for some attention as well.Last week a friend of mine came to me and brought a present, and what a lovely present it was! You remember I wanted that My Katamari case for the PSP? Well... I got it now! *cheers* It's not a hardcase like I thought but it's green and very

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I was teaching a class last Friday and I had some machinima woven into it, which reminded me again what a great development it is. People really come up with some great stories and edited pieces of work. It got me thinking that I should keep myself updated. So from now on I will try to put a link to a machinima piece I've watched, on here regularly, say once a week. Not too much hassle by putting

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Brilliant in all its simplicity... it's just beautiful. You've got to love Wii.See also: IGN

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Lately I start to think it's all about visibility. I feel quite invisible.

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When on that shopping spree in the bookstore I stumbled upon a section with several kinds of notebooks. And of course.. I have a thing for beautiful designed notebooks... I knew I should at least buy one. I had a hard time deciding which one, so there I was holding several books in my hand, my shoulders getting tired and walking around like crazy trying to come to a decision which notebook was

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Oi oi it's finally decided!! We're going to Tokyo! Well ehm.. the DiGRA conference that is. It was announced last Friday over at the DiGRA site, I knew it was hanging in the air but it seems it has been decided now for real. So Tokyo here we come! Did I mention that we are going to Tokyo?! Just bouncing here. Want to go to Tokyo for so long and now there is a possibility that I really am going!

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Bought some books over the last couple of weeks that one should need when doing game research and such. I had so many books on my wishlist but decided it was finally time to buy some of them and put them in my bookcase next to the others. My excuse? I need to teach a couple of courses and those books would be very handy. Hmm, if only I had time to read them properly. Anyway here are the books

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called exergames now? It's about time that I dive into this again

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Yes! Finally I am the proud owner of a plastic Gibson guitar with bright colored plastic buttons and I love it! I got this guitar freaks plastic guitar for ages but never found myself a copy of the game itself, and then came Harmonix. I loved Frequency and Amplitude as I like most rhythm games and now they bring me their very own version of Guitar Freaks! Picked up my copy today, we let people in

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I can't believe I haven't noticed this blog earlier, but grandma rocks!! A seventy year old granny who plays videogames, and not those "wimpy" ones like solitaire or anything, no she is definitely hardcore. And by hardcore we mean Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 4 and God of War... hell yeah! I totally love her. Who said the elderly and women don't play games? This proves the total opposite... it

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I am going to be an auntie!!! Weehee! It is only 18 cm right now and it is still five months from now before it will be born, but I am going to be an auntie! It just dawned on my however that I am going to be a real aunt... like those in the movies with grey hair (ehm make that pink) and wrinkles, there is such a huge age gap, I'll be... old (in her eyes) when it reaches adulthood. But of course

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I have no idea what it is but it looks fecking amazing!! Minority Report? Just have a look yourself. Sony ftw! Some background.Oh and while you're on it... check this too.. I want to be able to go through my digital pictures like that!

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The International Summer School in Gaming Simulation will be held from August 19 till 26 in Dornbirn Austria. The theme will be Art and Science of Simulation & Gaming Design.The summer school will give participants the opportunity to learn about the use of different gaming simulation methods and to learn how to design gaming simulation.Sounds great eh? Teachers and students come from everywhere,

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Sounds interesting enough this call for work and participation for the Perform.Media: A Transdisciplinary Festival of Creativity, Research, Theory and Technoculture. To quote a bit of their statement:The festival and symposium seeks the accordance and collision of ideas through the lens of interdisciplinarity, exploring the performance of new media and the performative qualities of human-computer

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Ohh.. the GDC is right now in San Jose, California. Wish I could be there. Some interesting keynotes (amongst others, one of Satoru Iwata, the President of Nintendo) and other round table sessions and a whole lot of familiar names that will speak there. For a list you can go here... *click*Ooh this Bloggers Group Gathering sounds like fun! And how good is it to see Juul attending this conference,

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It's in London, the programme is led by Tanya Krzywinska, and Steve Jackson will also teach there. For more info:MA Programme, Brunel University

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Happy New Year dear readers!Not much input from me at this very moment, but in a candle tradition on New Years Eve, I wished for a productive year, hopefully this will be reflected on this blog as well, and I hope my wish comes true for all the other stuff I am planning. *smiles*

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Where was I lately? Frappr is the way to go! Frappr is a mashup of Google Maps and gives users the opportunity to create (for example) a group that share an interest (like games) and put them all on a map, (where everyone/everything is geographically located) with a short description. Best of all: there is also space for photos, shoutouts, private messages and such. And best example of them all:

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I would almost forget! But here it is, my blog's second anniversary!!! *cheers*

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Or finnish people actually... maybe if someone would put up a site and make photographs of europeans, we could see that we have what it takes too, but the Finn are shown right on the following webpage, Fruits Galore!:Hel LooksLove them(via Robin)

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The people behind gmail keep adding features to their mailprogram, and I have to say, I like it (even) better and better. Most of the time the conversation style of the mails are a clear and understandable way of reading and keeping up with your email (except when people change the subject). The last weeks they seem to be implementing new stuff almost every day. They added auto-save (got to love

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Being a girl and always battle your geekdom or revel in it? Now is your chance to put it out straight, there is a call for subs for an anthology of essays called She's such a geek. Going to the website of one of the authors I saw that Annalee Newitz has Totoro icons on her page, love her!!!Charlie Anders has also a website/blog. She has the cfp on her site as well.

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... or it's more white, really.But the point is.. I got it! The 360 is mine! The gameshop I work for had its midnight xbox360 launch party, with dj, lots of people in anxious anticipation outside the shop and 4... yes 4! filmcamera's! Yep, the press was all around us (including the national news agency, which supplies most of the news to all media), it really was a great launch! Too bad I can't

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Finally a Dutch online magazine on animation, progressive animation even: Rupture - Online. I really appreciate what they are trying to do and hope to see many more of them. English version soon to be released!

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Oh my my my!!! Why don't I live in Japan (and why is my Japanese so bad)? They get all the good goodies!!Look what they get if they pre-order My My Katamari for PSP... the cutest, loveable and coolest case ever!!! *picks herself up from the ground again and stops drooling*Look! Look!!Thank you 1UP!

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Ugh, hate to do this but apparently no one can do without spam filters and such nowadays. So from now on comments will have to go through the annoying typ-a-difficult-60-character- thingy- before posting.

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I got iPod socks as a present last week, and they are damn fine, not much of real protection but great looking! While surfing on the net searching for sock stuff... look what I found!! Isn't it cute!! And while speaking of iPods.. could Apple please stop with bringing out all those new ones? I mean, I am still happy with my 3rd gen iPod but... I would love to have the Nano! Slick!

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OMG! Quick thoughts here... but I think it is brilliant, yes brilliant. I mean: how can you think of a concept that has existed for years now? (No irony here) Simple but effective, a small device that can be used for whatever people can imagine. There is no need for left-handed people to think of how to "walk" with the D-Pad and I could throw away all my cool alternative controllers (nah) because

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