ERA CEO Kim Bayley © ERA Business UK Games Market Down 4.4% in 2024 Unlike in 2022 and 2023, the largest entertainment market in the UK in 2024 was no longer games, but video. Physical games have fallen particularly sharply, by almost a third. The Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) has released its full year UK market data for 2024. Total entertainment sales By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics Group, AMD © AMD Business AMD Announces New Gaming CPUs, and Somehow RDNA 4 Too At CES 2025, AMD announced new CPUs for desktop, mobile and handheld gaming. GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture were also unveiled, although they were missing from the keynote. AMD announced new gaming products for desktop, mobile and handheld gaming at CES 2025. The company unveiled new Ryzen 9900X3D By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Fonce © Ciné-Litté Business Creative Europe Media 2024: €7.7M Euros for European Video Games 41 games benefit from €7.7 million Creative Europe Media Video Games funding in 2024, six games projects from Germany (€1.3 million) and one from Austria. Among the games receiving funding is Fonce, a tale of love and war by Cologne-based Ciné-Litté Productions. It is an interactive, animated VR By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Nvidia Development Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series, DLSS 4, RTX Neural Rendering and More At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia announced the GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. DLSS 4 will feature Multi Frame Generation and AI is coming to Shaders. All the reveals at a glance. Nvidia has unveiled the GeForce RTX 50 Series of desktop and laptop GPUs at CES. The new By Marcel Kleffmann • 6 min read
Part of the Paintbucket Games team. © Paintbucket Games Website Business Paintbucket Games Develops Game for Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) The German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) has selected Paintbucket Games to develop a game for the project 'Demokratieraum. Die "Landshut" in Friedrichshafen' with a volume of €400,000. 41 studios took part in the tender. The German Federal Agency for By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Dr Oliver Daum © Daum Esports Dr Oliver Daum Appointed 2nd Chairman of the Esports Association of Schleswig-Holstein The E-Sport Association of Schleswig-Holstein has appointed Dr Oliver Daum, a lawyer from Kiel, as its new 2nd chairman. With effect from 1 January 2025, he will take over from Jana Möglich, who held the position until May 2024. Dr Oliver Daum has not only legal expertise, but also a By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Sandro Wildi (Eagle Capital Partners AG), Stefan Grosser, Fritz Feissli (Promopers), Markus Oeller (1SP Agency), Nicolas Purpura (Promopers), Roger Wyss (Tax Consultant) © 1SP Business 1SP Agency Strengthens Retail and Sales Marketing With Acquisition of Swiss Company promoPers Hamburg-based 1SP Agency has acquired promoPers, a Swiss agency specialising in retail, sales, personnel and channel marketing. By expanding into the Swiss market, the international marketing company not only strengthens its global presence, but also expands its service portfolio. One day before Christmas, when most of the games industry was By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Black Myth: Wukong / Farming Simulator 25 / Steam Award © Game Science / Giants / Valve Publishing Black Myth: Wukong Wins Three Steam Awards, Swiss Studio Also Honoured The Steam Awards were presented for the ninth time at the turn of the year. Black Myth: Wukong won the most awards in this community-driven voting. Among the other winners was a studio from Switzerland. The Steam community has spoken! Black Myth: Wukong, developed and published by Game Science, was By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender / Mimimi Co-Founder Johannes Roth © Bender / Simon Troll Publishing Hooded Horse Acquires Publishing Rights to Shadow Gambit From Mimimi Games US publisher Hooded Horse is taking over the publishing rights to Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew from Mimimi Games. The publisher, which specialises in strategy games, is looking forward to helping the game achieve "the long-term success it deserves". Hooded Horse has partnered with Mimimi Games to publish By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
The Games Industry's Perspective on 2025 - Part #4: Head to Head © GamesMarkt, PP Business The Games Industry's Perspective on 2025 - Part #4: Head to Head By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Cinematic Director Kajetan Kapuściński and Narrative Director Philipp Weber © CD Projekt Red Business The Witcher IV: New Main Character, Geralt's Legacy and Huge Challenges CD Projekt Red dropped a bombshell at The Game Awards 2024 with the announcement of The Witcher IV. We spoke to Narrative Director Philipp Weber and Cinematic Director Kajetan Kapuściński about the game, the challenges and Geralt's legacy. Probably the biggest announcement at The Game Awards 2024 was By Marcel Kleffmann • 8 min read
GTA 6 / Monster Hunter Wilds © Rockstar Games / Capcom Business 2025 to Be the Biggest Gaming Year Ever?! By Marcel Kleffmann • 7 min read
