Stream Your Own Game using the example of Assassin's Creed Shadows from Ubisoft © Xbox / Ubisoft Business "Stream Your Own Game" on Xbox Consoles and Purchasable Games on the Xbox Mobile App Xbox is expanding its ecosystem and has announced that Stream Your Own Game is now available on Xbox consoles. In addition, games can now be purchased directly from the Xbox Mobile App and Remote Play is now supported on more devices. Microsoft has announced a series of updates to the By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Game2Learn Business Game2Learn Conference 2025: Serious Games and Gamification in Higher Education The second Game2Learn conference on 'Gamification and Serious Games' organised by HessenHub will take place at the beginning of October at the Hochschule RheinMain in Wiesbaden. The conference will focus on serious games and gamification in higher education. On 1 October 2025, the second Game2Learn conference on ' By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Asgard's Fall - Viking Survivors / Commandos: Origins / Nordhold © Soulpotion, Assemble Entertainment and Instinct3 / Kalypso Media / StunForge Business Nordhold Makes It Into the Top Ten of the German Weekly Top Sellers on Steam As Counter-Strike 2 and Schedule I continue to top the weekly Steam charts, Nordhold from Stunforge makes it into the top ten in Germany. Commandos: Origins from Kalypso Media debuts in the Top 100 worldwide and also in Germany (#29). In the weekly Steam charts (by revenue) from 8th to By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Youth Festival Leadership 25th Kick-off from right to left - Tim Sommer, Fleur Häusler, Anna Kober (at the laptop) and Ulrich Tausend (Festival Leadership) © GamesFestival Business Fifth Bavarian GamesFestival Starts on 30 May The fifth Bavaria-wide GamesFestival will take place from 30 May to 1 June 2025. The main festival venue is the FatCat at Rosenheimer Platz in Munich - with indie games, playtests, game design workshops and more. The participatory GamesFestival aims to celebrate gaming culture in all its facets. The theme By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle © MachineGame, Bethesda/Zenimax/Xbox, Lucasfilm Games Products Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (PS5) Launch Event in Berlin After its release on PC and Xbox in December 2024, Indiana Jones will also be swinging his whip on PlayStation 5. Fittingly, Bethesda is planning a live event at the "Das Schloss" shopping mall in Berlin's Steglitz district starting at 17:00 on the day of By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Ubisoft Chroma - Tritanopia View © Ubisoft Business Ubisoft Releases Colorblind Simulation Tool Chroma For Public Use Ubisoft's colour blindness simulation tool, Chroma, is now available to the public after several years of internal use and development. It allows developers to simulate colour blindness. At the Game Accessibility Conference, Ubisoft announced the release of Chroma, a real-time colour blindness simulator. It allows developers to experience By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Funcom Products Dune: Awakening Delayed by Three Weeks Funcom had originally planned to release Dune: Awakening on 20 May, but after feedback from the beta, they want to give themselves a little more time. The new release date for the game is 10 June 2025. Norwegian developer and publisher Funcom (wholly owned by Tencent) has delayed the release By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Ironclad Games & Stardock Entertainment Products Sins of a Solar Empire II More than 15 years after Sins of a Solar Empire and more than 12 years after Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, Ironclad and Stardock have released the 4X RTS Sins of a Solar Empire II. What are they up to in this niche genre? Sins of a Solar Empire By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read
© Headup Products Headup Publishes Causal Loop by Mirebound Interactive Causal Loop, a narrative sci-fi puzzler from Mirebound Interactive in Frauenberg (Rhineland-Palatinate), has found a publisher: Headup. Developer Mirebound Interactive from Frauenberg (Rhineland-Palatinate) and indie publisher Headup from Düren have announced Causal Loop, a narrative sci-fi puzzler, during FYNG at caggtus 2025. The game features an 'echo' mechanic By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Shenmue III © Ys Net / Inin Games Business Dennis Mendel: Shenmue "Is in Stark Contrast to Most of the Other Games in Our Portfolio" In a surprise move at the end of 2024, United Games Entertainment acquired the publishing rights to Shenmue III from Ys Net through its Inin Games label. We spoke to Dennis Mendel, Head of Business Development, about what may be the biggest publishing deal Inin Games has ever done, at By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Shenmue III © Ys Net / Inin Games Business G+ Why United Games Entertainment Is so Passionate About Shenmue III By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read
Star Wars Zero Company © Electronic Arts, Lucasfilm Games Products EA Unveils Star Wars Zero Company Even before the official reveal at Star Wars Celebration Japan, Electronic Arts announced Star Wars Zero Company, developed by Bit Reactor in collaboration with Respawn Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games. Electronic Arts has confirmed the production of a new Star Wars game: Star Wars Zero Company, developed by Bit Reactor in By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
