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Eurogamer Network's new best friends have just launched another localised European website.
Say hej to Eurogamer Denmark, where "White Stripes man slags off music games" becomes "White Stripes græder over musikspil".
Eurogamer already has websites in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Romania. No one will ever play us at Risk for money.
"We've had great success with our expansion across Europe so far," commented Rupert Loman, managing director of Eurogamer, signalling Bertie to dust off the map and fetch a new pin.
"We're very happy to be launching Eurogamer in Denmark, and together with our help we expect Kristian and his team to create a fantastic site for the region."
"Eurogamer is a true icon in European gaming and I'm proud to be part of the Danish expansion," added Kristian West, editor-in-chief of Eurogamer.dk.
"Personally I look forward to sharing with Danish gamers this fresh take on our games and the vast industry behind them. We have some great stuff lined up for the launch, and we have assembled a growing team of brilliant Danish writers to contribute to the unique content found in the Eurogamer Network." Roll on Hans Christian Andersen's review of Wii Sports Resort.
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Psychotext
25/06/09 @ 12:01
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World domination continues...
I'm still waiting for NotEurogamer to launch in the US. :D |
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As a Dane I can't say I really felt there was a need for this - we (fortunately) don't have localized games here and I imagine many if not most of us are used to the vast majority of the sites we visit online being in English (the only Danish sites I frequent are online stores and the daily TV and weather information :)). Although perhaps I'm greatly overestimating that number?
But anyway, good luck to Eurogamer.dk. |
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Bigglesworth
25/06/09 @ 12:33
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"We've had great success with our expansion across Europe so far,"
I think Hitler said the same thing. |
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Siberian_Khatru
25/06/09 @ 12:38
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Why not put that eurogamer.ru domain to good use? Similar Russian sites are hideous, people will readily succumb to corporate charm. Or not. Don't blame me if you fail! MySpace is abandoning Russia because the competition is too strong. Still, worth a try.
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insincere_dave
25/06/09 @ 12:41
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Any news of when Eurogamer Andorra, Vatican City and Lichtenstein are due to launch?
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The-Builder
25/06/09 @ 12:43
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I'm afraid i'll mainly keep visiting eurogamer.net, unless Ellie starts posting articles and reviews in danish on the site. Just won't be the same without her. Also the british humor doesn't really translate that well.
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Lemming81: It's not fracturing really, as those who have always read the English site can continue to and the existence of a local site shouldn't make any difference to their browsing habits. But those who want to read a site in their local language now can - there are plenty of people who don't want to (or can't!) read an English-language site.
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"... there are plenty of people who don't want to (or can't!) read an English-language site."
Denmark is such a small country that - as I previously mentioned - I rather suspect most of us are used to English language sites making up for a large part of our web surfing (around 99.9% for me personally), and if anyone here below the age of 40 (or older for that matter) doesn't have at least a serviceable grasp of English they should perhaps have spent a little less time sleeping in school. Although I guess many probably did just that so maybe Eurogamer Denmark will actually get a few visitors :). |
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Does anyone read the non-UK Eurogamers? I never go to the Dutch one. Sometimes I take a look at the French site, just to see how much I can understand. I frequent the .de version regularly mainly because some of the editors are from my former favorite German PC game magazine (PC Action). The UK version however is 3rd page I visit in the morning (after a general news site and a game forum). Welcome .dk to the flock and good luck! :)
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Well, the national sites can cover national issues, e.g. the German site has lots of discussion about the politicans who want to extend the child porn filtering to violent video games... z.B. hier: http://www.eurogamer.de/articles/netzfil...
But a Danish site? I mean there is just so many threads you can create about Carlsberg dominance being a threat to local breweries... :) |
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It is at this point that I am reminded of a video depicting Tesco invading Denmark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PSyiRXIEyc |
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CrumpetBoy
25/06/09 @ 18:47
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I read Eurogamer.de to practise my German (Ich lerne Deutsch für meine Arbeit) and because the scores are sometimes different to the UK... I don't see it as fragmenting: Europe is united only by its differences.
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Articulate-Troll
25/06/09 @ 21:15
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"It seems you can't use the eurogamer.net login on the eurogamer.dk site - that's a shame - or am I doing it wrong!?"
I just gave it a try and I could. Not that I speak Danish mind. \O/ |
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Wow... that came as a surprise. I am half Danish and half German, and a regular visitor at the German Eurogamer site for a second opinion. Now I can also go to the Danish site for a third opinion. Thanks..
But why not integrate the different language sites a bit better? Like showing all the review scores and a little comment from all the other Eurogamer sites on Eurogamer.net reviews? |
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designerheadache
26/06/09 @ 07:31
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Wow... that came as a surprise. I am half Danish and half German, and a regular visitor at the German Eurogamer site for a second opinion. Now I can also go to the Danish site for a third opinion. Thanks..
But why not integrate the different language sites a bit better? Like showing all the review scores and a little comment from all the other Eurogamer sites on Eurogamer.net reviews? +1 this would be a great idea, and one that would (hopefully) stop stupid comment threads going on pages and pages because (for example MGS 4 got 8/10) and provide other valued opinions to compare against. After all a review is just an opinion, and EG, i am assuming, is proud of each of its respective sites and their reviewers so this should be a no brainer. |
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designerheadache
26/06/09 @ 07:34
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hmm.. anyone else getting weird no post back issues when making comments?
I'm using google Chrome on Windows XP and its happening everytime i make a comment. Works fine on my Mac/Safari though. |
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dominalien
26/06/09 @ 08:07
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I read the .es site to keep in touch with my Spanish.
Who do I get in touch with to participate in creating Eurogamer Poland? |
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