Rick van Beem

As a volunteer I promote OneBigGame releases in Benelux. OneBigGame is a fantastic Live Aid-like videogame industry initiative. We sell games with 80% of the proceedings going to charities. We recently released our first title Chime through XBLA. For Chime and the OneBigGame innitiative I have achieved mass awareness in both general and special interest press. At the moment the OneBigGame charity initiative is working on 15 games for a wide range of platforms.

Playlogic International is a worldwide publisher of electronic entertainment. It publishes games on console, PC, handheld and mobile. My major task is creating global mass awareness for our titles. I manage local PR Managers as well as two external dedicated PR agencies and am in control of the global PR budget. Furthermore, I act as the spokesperson for Playlogic's in-house studio, Playlogic Game Factory, which also makes games for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

For the largest game community website in the Benelux I was responsible for all editorial content. I wrote news articles, columns, previews and reviews featuring the latest in interactive entertainment. In-depth behind the scenes features as well as interviews are effective ways of communicating to our readers. We researched and liaised with developers, publishers and attended conferences. As an editorial member, I continually worked on maintaining and enhancing the website, making it more attractive and us