Netherlands

Arjan Brussee, co-founder and technical director of Killzone developer Guerrilla Games, is leaving the company and joining Visceral Games, the studio behind the Dead Space series. Brussee confirmed his departure in an email to staff, obtained by Dutch website Control Online. He paid tribute to his colleagues for their workrate: they developed the original Killzone and Shellshock: Nam '67 at the same time, and made Killzone 3 in two years. More >

Dutch art dealership Cook & Becker has launched a curated collection of artwork from the Killzone franchise. Now available on the firm's website, The Killzone Collection contains concept art and drawings from Guerrilla's PlayStation shooter series, including Stahl Arms, a finalist at Into The Pixel 2011. More >

SCEE has announced a partnership with Vodafone that will see the mobile operator become its preferred 3G provider for upcoming PSP successor PlayStation Vita, with those that connect through Vodafone receiving a free download of Vita launch title Wipeout 2048. More >

Dutch art dealership Cook & Becker has launched a new online gallery featuring unique and limited edition works from videogame artists including Keita Takahashi and Masaya Matsuura. The Next Gen online art store contains works designed by the Katamari Damacy and Parappa The Rapper creators, as well as Killzone 3 concept artist Jesse Van Dijk and Masiej Kuciara, a concept artist at Uncharted developer Naughty Dog who also worked on Crysis and its sequel. More >

As we revealed earlier this week, Slavery: The Game was not a game. It now transpires that it was intended to promote a Dutch TV history programme, De Slavernij, which explores the role of the Netherlands in the slave trade. "In the Golden Era, the Netherlands was a colonial power," explains the host of the Dutch TV show Game Kings. "It might seem a long time ago, but when you look at the impact of what happened back then, it is still very visible today. Why aren't we taught this at school? Because it's a very dark period of our history." De Slavernij is to start later this month, and there's even a children's version, De Slavernij Junior, to further raise awareness of that dark Dutch past.