© game Business Dorothee Bär Joins the #gamechanger Talk on the 2025 Elections With the Bundestag elections just around the corner, the game association is pushing ahead with its #gamechanger livestream format. Dorothee Bär, CSU Vice Party Leader and Vice Chairwoman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, has been announced as the next guest. The talk will take place on 11 February. On By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Take-Two Interactive Management © Take-Two Interactive IR Business Take-Two: Solid Holiday Season and Record Year Ahead Thanks to Mafia, GTA 6 and Borderlands The calendar year 2025 will be an "inflection point" for Take-Two Interactive. Grand Theft Auto VI is still scheduled for fall 2025, not to forget Mafia: The Old Country and Borderlands 4. The last holiday season was also more than solid. Take-Two Interactive has delivered 'solid results& By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© Kalypso Media Publishing Kalypso Media to Release Commandos: Origins in Early April Not in March, but in April 2025. Kalypso Media and Claymore Game Studios will release Commandos: Origins a little later. The retail release will follow in May. On 9 April 2025, Commandos: Origins will be released digitally for PC, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5. The latest instalment in By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Interactive Innovation Conference © ESA Business ESA Hosts Interactive Innovation Conference in Las Vegas The inaugural Interactive Innovation Conference, or iicon, will take place in Las Vegas at the end of April 2026. The Entertainment Software Association's event will bring together leaders from industries related to interactive entertainment. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced the Interactive Innovation Conference (iicon), an event By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 © Sony Interactive Entertainment, Marvel Products Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (PC) Almost a year and three months after Marvel's Spider-Man 2 launched on PlayStation 5, the action-adventure game is swinging its way to PC. Although Sony only revealed the PC features shortly before release. After Marvel's Spider-Man (PS: 2018; PC: 2022) and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Megagon Industries team photo in 2024 © Megagon Industries Business Megagon Industries: With Funding to Self-Publishing and Over 500,000 Players on the Slopes By Marcel Kleffmann • 7 min read
Farming Simulator 25 has sold over three million copies since its release in November 2024. © Giants Software Publishing Three Million Farming Simulator 25 Unit Sales in Three Months Farming Simulator 25, from publisher and developer Giants Software, has sold over three million copies since its release in November 2024. A new roadmap teases upcoming content, including free additions. More than three million people have already played Farming Simulator 25. The game was released on 12 November. "Three By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Portside Game Assembly is the expert conference for internationally successful indie game studios. © Photos from top left to bottom right: Bjoern Weinbrandt, Bytro Labs, Scherer and Nordhaus GmbH, Jan-Marius Komorek Business Portside Game Assembly Is a New B2B Conference for Indie Game Leaders With the Portside Game Assembly, Gamecity Hamburg welcomes studio heads and directors from successful indie game studios to a new B2B conference on a ship and other locations in Hamburg. The Portside Game Assembly will celebrate its premiere as a B2B conference for international indie game leaders on 27 June By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive © Paradox Business Paradox Interactive Buys Haemimont Games Paradox Interactive has acquired Bulgarian developer Haemimont Games to strengthen its position in the management genre. In the past, Haemimont Games has worked with Kalypso Media, THQ Nordic and also Paradox. Paradox Interactive of Sweden has signed an agreement to acquire all shares in Haemimont Games. The acquisition of the By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA © Archive Picture Business Electronic Arts: Share Buyback, Tracab Acquisition and Switch 2 as an Opportunity EA released its Q3 report after lowering its guidance. EA Sports FC 25 regained momentum, a single Chief Technology Officer was appointed and Tracab Technologies was acquired. CEO Wilson sees Nintendo Switch 2 as an opportunity. After lowering its targets for the third quarter due to weaker performances from EA By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Chris Mitchell, Senior Director of Marketing at Razer, presented several sets of Sensa HD products to Anneke Hänel, Digital Officer at Elbschule, at Razer's EU headquarters. © Razer Business Haptic Hardware: Razer Teams up With the Elbschule in Hamburg Razer has invited pupils from the Elbschule in Hamburg to a test event at the headquarters of esports team Mouz to give hearing impaired students the chance to try out haptic hardware. The school will also receive a number of these products. In collaboration with the Elbschule in Hamburg, which By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© World's Edge Publishing Two Age of Empires Games Coming to PlayStation 5 Following the announcement that Forza Horizon 5 will be coming to PlayStation 5, two more ports of Xbox games have been announced, this time successful real-time strategy games. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, first released on PC in November 2019, and Age of Mythology: Retold, first released in September By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
