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Queen Wilhelmina featured in Civilization VI
Set to be released on 8 February 2018, computer game Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Rise and Fall will feature Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, the country’s longest-reigning Dutch monarch from 1890...
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Personal computer museum to open in Helmond
On 17 March, the Home Computer Museum in Helmond, Noord-Brabant will open its doors. At noon, visitors will be able to check out a collection of old personal computers, gaming computers and arcade...
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Tradeable loot boxes declared illegal in the Netherlands
In a study released last week, The Netherlands Gaming Authority (NGA) has concluded that some video games are breaking the law by offering so-called loot boxes. Loot boxes are in-game purchases in...
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Game console museum gets 200 new items
According to Bright.nl, the Bonami game console museum in Zwolle has received 200 items in one go for its collection, the biggest extension in the museum’s history. The items are said to be from the...
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Dutch championship escape room scheduled for 2019
On 7 January 2019, the first ever national championship escape room will take place in Erp, North Brabant and will involve ‘an escaped psychopath from Germany’. The goal is to find out what he’s...
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Woman claims prize, a (now) antique radio, after 80 years
A woman from Rotterdam won the first prize in an 80-year old competition that she had forgotten to enter as a girl. In 1940 a then 11-year old Tjits Drenth solved a rebus of the Jamin candy chain...
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Dutch marbles make it to the big leagues
Dutch brothers Jelle and Dion Bakker build and present elaborate marble races on their hugely popular YouTube channel Jelle’s Marble Runs. Recently having lost their main sponsor, they tweeted out for...
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Amsterdam featured in Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
For those who don’t game, Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game franchise from American company Activision. Everything I saw and heard in the trailer below featuring Amsterdam is very...
View ArticleSomeone recreated Amsterdam in Cities Skylines and it’s amazing
A video by SEB Urban Design provides an overview of Amsterdam recreated in video game Cities Skylines. It claims to include all tourist destinations, parks and transport. The goal was to strive for...
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Some of 24 Oranges’ most memorable posts
We started 24 Oranges in February 2007 and in late January 2022 it will become a column over at DutchNews.nl, also called 24 Oranges. After 4,100 posts under our belts, we might feel the need to post...
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