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 By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Wreckfest 2 © THQ Nordic and Bugbear Entertainment Publishing Wreckfest 2 Enters Early Access in March 2025 THQ Nordic and Bugbear Entertainment will release Wreckfest 2 in Early Access on PC in March 2025. The demolition racer will be built together with the community. Austrian publisher THQ Nordic and developer Bugbear Entertainment from Finland will release Wreckfest 2 in Early Access on PC on 20 March 2025. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Assetto Corsa Evo © 505 Games Products Assetto Corsa Evo Just over ten years after the release of Assetto Corsa, Italian developer Kunos Simulazioni has released the sequel Assetto Corsa Evo, initially in Early Access. The franchise is very important for publisher 505 Games. The sequel to Assetto Corsa (2014), Assetto Corsa Evo is the third game in the Assetto By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Sales Status of Nintendo Switch, FY25. © Nintendo Business Switch Hardware and Software Sales Fall Sharply, Nintendo Revises Guidance Last quarter, sales of Switch hardware and software fell so sharply that Nintendo had to lower its forecast for the fiscal year. Despite this, more than 150 million Switch consoles have now been shipped. Nintendo has released its financial results for the first nine months (April to December 2024) of By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Brent Blazek, Merge Mansion Growth Lead at Metacore © Metacore, Blazek Business Metacore Appoints New Merge Mansion Growth Lead Brent Blazek Metacore targets growth opportunities in casual and Merge2 genres. The mobile games company has appointed Brent Blazek as its new Growth Lead to drive the growth of its four-year-old game Merge Mansion. In 2024, Metacore's Merge Mansion reached two milestones: over 55 million downloads and over By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© EA Development Extensive Community Collaboration for Next Battlefield Electronic Arts' Battlefield studios are basing the next Battlefield game on the biggest community collaboration in the franchise's history. This is probably the publisher's way of trying to avoid another launch debacle like Battlefield 2042 in November 2021. Electronic Arts has announced the "most By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II © Plaion Products Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Plaion is about to launch one of its biggest releases ever: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. The action role-playing game is on over a million wishlists on Steam alone. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II continues and concludes the story of Henry of Skalitz (Heinrich in German), a blacksmith's son By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Paul Schnepf and Jonas Tyroller have won the 2023 German Developer Award in the Best Casual Game category for Thronefall. © Beatrice Thoma for the 2023 Game Developer Award Business Thronefall Sells Over One Million Copies Berlin-based indie studio Grizzly Games is celebrating over one million copies of Thronefall sold by releasing a final content update to mark the milestone. The two-person team will now focus on a new game. Thronefall, developed by Berlin-based Grizzly Games, has sold over one million copies. It By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
