The last days have been tremendous hard work, wrapping up teaching, PhD stuff, working on two journal articles, and finishing a commissioned report on the state of the Dutch game industry. More on that in August and beyond. Until then I’ll be offline. Read the rest of this entry »

You may have noticed the lack of weekly FoliaNostra (the University of Amsterdam magazine) game columns. FoliaNostra.nl has been closed down (not temporarily I guess) and Folia is under ‘new management’. Former chief editor Marcel Hulspas moved to the daily newspaper Dagblad de Pers. Which by the way has an interesting two-page article today on the Dutch involvement on the war in Iraq. Now my involvement with FoliaNostra.nl is over I made all 19 columns I wrote available here on gamespace.nl. The links are below or at the Journalism (online) section.

Game columns for FoliaNostra 2006-2007.

- “When it’s done!”. FoliaNostra.nl. February 1, 2007.
- “Het Wii-virus”. FoliaNostra.nl. January 25, 2007.
- “Meer, meer, meer Warcraft!”. FoliaNostra.nl. January 18, 2007.
- “Games en emotie”. FoliaNostra.nl. January 11, 2007.
- “Een bloederige handgranaat en een kettingzaag”. FoliaNostra.nl. December 21, 2006.
- “De Wii die niet kwam, maar wel won”. FoliaNostra.nl. December 14, 2006.
- “FoliaNostra in Second Life!”. FoliaNostra.nl. , 2006.
- “Exclusiviteit als wapen”. FoliaNostra.nl. November 30, 2006.
- “Beursbezoek”. FoliaNostra.nl. November 24, 2006.
- “Hoezo micro?”. FoliaNostra.nl. November 16, 2006.
- “Ongelofelijke anticipatie”. FoliaNostra.nl. November 9, 2006.
- “Engelse Les”. FoliaNostra.nl. November 2, 2006.
- “Lees vooral de bijsluiter!”. FoliaNostra.nl. October 18, 2006.
- “Slavenarbeiders of workaholics?”. FoliaNostra.nl. October 12, 2006.
- “Gitaarhelden en drumkoningen”. FoliaNostra.nl. October 10, 2006.
- “De soap die Playstation 3 heet”. FoliaNostra.nl. October 10, 2006.
- “Geen nagelvijl en handcrème”. FoliaNostra.nl. October 10, 2006.
- “De esthetiek van het zombies slachten”. FoliaNostra.nl. September 18, 2006.
- “Begin het jaar goed”. FoliaNostra.nl. August 26, 2006.

I got some emails about my website. If I’m quitting? Will gamespace.nl shut down?

Hell no! I am redesigning and upgrading. I will use WordPress blog software, which is far more powerful than my previous blog software. I grew unhappy with it. It started looking ugly and I broke down.

On a personal level – I am doing great. Working on some very groovy projects – research, freelance research, game journalism and teaching. Oh and I am more than happy with my Wii (and Mii). But more on all that later!

-Dave.

Welcome to my new blog/website. Well, new. It’s updated. I’ll change stuff a bit the coming days/weeks. If you want to contact me, my email still works of course:
David @ gamespace . nl