Björn Pankratz and Jennifer Pankratz at gamescom 2023. © GamesMarkt, Marcel Kleffmann Development First Game From Pithead Studio Is Cralon After the end of Piranha Bytes and going indie, Jennifer and Björn Pankratz have announced their first game. It is the 3D dungeon crawler Cralon, inspired by dungeon classics and developed with Unreal Engine 5. Cralon is a 3D dungeon crawler with RPG and adventure elements, inspired by classics such By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© ID@Xbox Publishing ID@Xbox Showcase With Daedalic Entertainment, Okomotive and More Daedalic Entertainment presented Woodo and Okomotive presented Herdling at the ID@Xbox Showcase during IGN FanFest. World premieres included The Lonesome Guild by Don't Nod and Rockbeasts by Team17. IGN opened its annual FanFest with an ID@Xbox showcase. Daedalic Entertainment, in collaboration with developers Yullia Prohorova and By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© StS Business Funding Applications for Games Projects up to €900,000 Stopped Less than two months after the launch of the games funding programme, the budget allocated by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWK) has been exhausted. As a result, an application stop for projects with a funding volume By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© GDD Business Games Can Be Submitted for the GDD Indie Award 2025 The GermanDevDays Indie Award will take place for the sixth time and, as in previous years, will offer a total of €10,000 in prize money in various categories. Submissions can be made from now until the end of March. Entries for the GDD Indie Award 2025 must be submitted By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Gothic 1 Remake (Nyras Prologue) / Solarpunk / Bongo Cat © THQ Nordic / rokaplay / BlueBottle Business Many GSA Studios Taking Part in Steam Next Fest Numerous developers and publishers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are taking part in the Steam Next Fest in February 2025. Some of the games are among these top ten most successful demos. The latest Next Fest, which showcases upcoming games, launched yesterday evening on Steam. There are over two thousand By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Pitch Level Up 2025 © Jan-Marius Komorek Business Over 60 Mentoring Sessions at Pitch Level Up 2025, Plus Expert Talks and Peer-to-Peer Reviews On 20 February, Gamecity Hamburg hosted its annual Pitch Level Up event, where gaming experts give 1:1 feedback on game pitches. Participants came not only from Hamburg, but also from Cologne and Bavaria. The fourth edition of Gamecity Hamburg's Pitch Level Up took place on 20 February. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Friedrich Merz, CDU leader and likely next German chancellor © CDU / Tobias Koch Business Germany Has Voted: What Does It Mean for the Local Games Industry? The results of the 2025 Bundestag elections are in. The most likely constellation for the next German government is a coalition between CDU/CSU and SPD. But what do the parties have in mind for the games industry? So far, not much. According to the preliminary official results of the By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Matthias Kolb, Country Manager GSA & Eastern Europe at [Bandai Namco Entertainment © Bandai Namco, Kolb Publishing Bandai Namco Takes Over Box Distribution From Electronic Arts in GSA Bandai Namco Entertainment will distribute physical versions of Electronic Arts games in Germany, Switzerland and Austria from March 2025. This is a further expansion of Bandai Namco Entertainment's partnerships in the distribution of boxed game editions. Bandai Namco Entertainment is taking over the physical distribution of Electronic Arts By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Für Uns 2025 © Für Uns 2025 Website Business Creators and Streamers for a Constructive Discourse on the Internet Before the Elections On 21 and 22 February, some of Germany's biggest creators, influencers and streamers will come together at a "secret" location and at the gamescom LAN to set an example of togetherness and to emphasise the importance of political participation in the run-up to the federal elections By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
tea makes game / The Elision Effect © tea makes game Business "Tea Makes Games" and the Appeal of Experimental Games Last year, "tea makes games", a student from Trier, Germany, released her first commercial game, The Elision Effect. GamesMarkt spoke to her about the challenges, inspiration and making experimental games. Under the pseudonym "tea makes games", Theia Bähr released her first commercial game last year: The By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read
Dune: Awakening © Funcom Publishing Dune: Awakening Release Date Confirmed While Funcom had previously announced a spring 2025 release date, it has now been confirmed that Dune: Awakening will be released on PC in May, just a few days after Doom: The Dark Ages. The character creator and a benchmark are already available on Steam. Norwegian developer and publisher Funcom By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Rogue Command © Feneq Business Feneq: How a Two-Man Team Wants to Shake up the RTS Genre With the courage to create a game in the supposedly dead RTS genre and combine it with contemporary roguelike and deck-building mechanics, feneq released Rogue Command in November 2024. For the two-person team, this has been a journey of over five years. They are fully behind the concept, and so By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read
