> This video presentation explains the Trash-can run. A concept I developed to reduce litter in forests and parks. Check it out and let me know what you think! I am still looking for (Dutch) sponsors and interesting contacts in the fast moving and sports industry for the launch in april 2012!

>Check out this presentation bij PSFK – some really nice and creative cases even some that help to make the world a little better like my trash can run for which I am still looking for sponsors! PSFK Future of Gaming Report [Preview] View more presentations from PSFK

> It’s a documentary from 2010 I think.

> Zynga stocks are available since last Friday. The starting bid was $10 releasing 100.000.000 stocks (!) – so Zynga was aiming for a minimum of 1 billion dollars in public capital!  The company was founded in July 2007 (less than five years ago!) by Mark Pincus and is named for his late American Bulldog, […]

> I was reading this article about millenials based on research done by MTV Networks. A lot of their conclusions are stated in my book ‘A Brand New Playground (www.brandnewplayground.com) and I summarized the essence of their study below:  Half of Millennials said “People my age see real life as a video game” and almost 6 […]

>Just to be disruptive a Dutch subject title today. It says: ‘A Brand New Playground’ almost sold out! Of course I am referring to the Dutch version of my book. The first edition almost sold 1.500 copies so far in 15 months time. According to my publisher Kluwer this is good result for a book […]

> During one of my presentations recently in the United Kingdom some one asked me how many game developers there are in the world. In my book I made an estimate that there would be at least 60.000 different kinds of boxed games available in the world since the beginning of the games industry in […]

>Introducing Morten Geertsen – one of my new Bloggers to the Gaming & Branding Universe! This is his first article: a summary of a paper about the effect of serious gaming! Here’s the article: Learning Faster by Playing! I recently stumbled across this study on serious gaming: Transfer of Gaming – Transfer of training in serious gaming. […]

> This game is visually stunning and seems to be really fun to play as well! I saw it at ‘Game in the City’ last Friday where I also gave a presentation about marketing your brand for young entrepreneurs (graduates). The game is called Cargo Commander and is inspired by (amongst other things) ‘The Cube’. […]

> The opening film for the Dutch Game Award dinner last Thursday. I had great fun that evening with some great individuals from the Dutch Gaming Industry. Hopefully the organization can keep up the high level of tasteful food, drinks, chicks (chicken breast that is)…and euh… GAMES of course! Below some more pictures of games […]