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Pieter + (potential) new internship = (could be) a great match.

Written by Pieter in Monday, November 9th 2009

Unlike my collegues of 'wijblijvenbuiten.be' I don't have any fancy marketing schemes or tricks up my sleeve to put myself in the spotlights. I only rely on the good judgement of the people at my 'new' internship to give me a chance. So who am I and why should you give me a chance? My academical career My name is Pieter Ophals and for the past three years I've been studying marketing communications at the Erasmushogeschool Brussels. [+]

Videogame marketing fail of the year: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Written by Pieter in Sunday, November 8th 2009

These are certainly exciting times for Videogame developers. While the videogame business keeps expanding and videogaming has become more than ever a social experience, marketing isn't considered to be very important nowadays. One of the most anticipated titles in gaming history ever "Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" is about to hit the shelves on wednesday. Now, what did they do to mess up the launch of the game? The people at Activision sure did [+]

Identity crisis…

Written by Pieter in Wednesday, November 4th 2009

Dear blog readers, For a long time I've been inactive on the subject of blogging. Nonetheless I've been busy behind the scenes and way too occupied to blog, but that's about to change. My first post on this new blog is going to be a very interesting youtube video about the paradox of choice. Watch it below... The Paradox of choice by Barry Schwartz or here: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM More posts to come in the near future. Future posts will also be more [+]