Wat we over kunst kunnen leren van twee games

Michiel Lieuwma zet in een video die 1,5 uur duurt — maar die voelt als een half uurtje — twee hele bekende games tegenover elkaar en zegt daarmee wat over de ‘staat van onze cultuur‘ (bij gebrek aan een betere term). Ik wist weinig van beide games. En deze video zal je in ieder geval […]

Best of 2016

Best-of lists signify another year is coming to a close. People feel a need to sort and order things to make room for what is to come. Or something like that. So here is an assorted list of best new things I found in 2016. Things can be anything, as long as it was new to me in […]

My January timeline

I’ve always loved timelines. Visually seeing where things are in time resonates pretty strongly with me. This love goes back to my earliest memories of the dentists’ office where a huge year-round calendar hung on the wall. It had 12 distinct vertical columns and every day had its own little box. Maybe it’s because of the physical […]

Masters of Doom

On my last vacation I finally got around to reading Masters of Doom by David Kushner. This book from 2003 keeps popping up every now and again and people always rave about it. I put it on my Amazon wish list years ago (which holds 50 books atm). But recently I came across it again, so it […]

The Minecraft timeline

The story of Minecraft sounds like a great movie script. Notch as the protagonist genius programmer, who, from an underdog (indie) position, single handedly changed the game industry by just doing what he loved. And, making a lot of money along the way. And even more money when he was fed up with it all and sold Minecraft. But perhaps […]

One year with the PS3

This month marks one year of me owning a Playstation 3. What started out as a quest for an ‘easy’ Netflix device, ended in getting a PS3. Maybe it seems I am a bit late to the game, because the PS4 is, and was, already available of course. But for me this presented a great opportunity. Because the […]

Update: Xbox 360

Zoals je hieronder kon lezen is vanaf vandeweek de Xbox 360 te koop in Amerika. Dus deze machine was volop in het nieuws. Een paar opmerkelijke nieuwtjs rondom de Xbox hier: – Het ding schijnt nogal vaak te crashen (door hoge temperatuur). – Microsoft maak per console $126 verlies – Een paar mensen vonden het […]

Xbox 360

Sinds vandaag, 22-11, kun je hem kopen in de USA. Nederland zal nog even moeten wachten tot 2 december. Meer info hier. Best wel snel eigelijk, zeker als je bedenkt dat er nog zoveel goede spellen recentelijk voor de Xbox1 zijn uitgekomen of zelfs nog moeten uitkomen. Wat te denken van: Brothers in Arms: Earned […]