Game Garden News
Van Iersel Luchtman and Dutch Game Garden entering into a collaborative partnership
Van Iersel Luchtman and Dutch Game Garden are starting a promising partnership. Van Iersel Luchtman is currently the only law firm in the Netherlands with a full-service legal team for the games industry. They assist and advise developers, publishers, and other...
New start-up focusses on body sensors to measure emotional gaming experience
The Dutch start-up ObservingMinds has launched the Return on Experience (RoX) optimizer, which is the result of 8 years of scientific research and data science. Founders Paulien van Slingerland and Harrie van de Vlag decided to start ObservingMinds to bring this new...
Lung cancer surgeries will be performed better and faster thanks to VR
A newly developed approach that uses virtual reality glasses to perform lung cancer operations appears to be quite effective. Surgeons are very excited at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam because now they can operate in a far more focused way and save as much...
VR-games developer Vertigo sold for 50-115 million euros
Vertigo Games, well-known for their VR hit Arizona Sunshine and Skyworld, has been bought by Koch Media. Vertigo receives 40 million euros in cash and 10 million in stock. Depending on their success in the upcoming decade, they could earn up to an additional 25...
Vlambeer extinguishes its flames
Well-known indie studio Vlambeer to call it a night. You might have heard from Vlamber because of games like Ridiculous Fishing, Nuclear Throne and Super Crate Box, among others. As of September 2020 Vlambeer have been a part of the games industry for 10 years, which...
Dutch Games Association sends ‘The Falconeer’ to Europlay Games at gamescom!
Dutch Games Association (DGA) will be hosting the eleventh Country Pavilion during gamescom 2020. The Country Pavilion will be 100% digital and part of devcom. In the same press release, DGA also announced that the Falconeer will be presenting the Netherlands on...
All new Cutting-edge Games Conference (CGC) to take place on September 22-26
Cutting-edge Games Conference invites all game industry professionals and enthusiasts to plunge into a completely different world for five days, to explore new capabilities of technology and creativity during the game developers’ conference sessions and on the online...
Dutch Game Garden wins Game Bakery’ Best Community Award
Game Bakery hosted the first Game Bakery Award on July 24th on the GameKings Twitch stream. The original award ceremony was scheduled for March 13th in the Forum in Groningen but couldn't continue due to the pandemic lockdown introduction. Game Bakery collaborated...
INDIGO 2020, Online and developed into a full-fledged business conference
INDIGO has developed into a full-fledged business conference. On June 26th, Dutch Game Garden organized the 11th edition of INDIGO. INDIGO 2020 was hosted online for the very first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Publishers, developers, industry professionals,...