© Nacon Publishing Nacon Connect 2025 and Edge of Memories Announced Once again this year, Nacon will be hosting a Connect stream on 6 March. During this showcase, the French company will present both games and new gaming accessories. Ahead of the stream, Edge of Memories from Midgar Studio has been revealed. Nacon Connect 2025 will showcase Nacon's gaming By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© BIG and Esport Factory Business BIG and Esport Factory Open High-End Boot Camp in Berlin In cooperation with Esport Factory, BIG is opening a high-end boot camp in Berlin. The Esport Factory programme from Maze will be extended to the BIG premises and then to Berlin's esport teams. German esports organisation Berlin International Gaming (BIG) and maze GmbH (Esport Factory), a provider of By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Capcom Products Monster Hunter Wilds At the end of February 2025, Capcom will release the follow-up to its two most successful games to date: Monster Hunter Wilds is already casting such a shadow that Sega has brought forward the release of Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii by a week to avoid the Monster By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Marilena Cassetta, Jan Halwe, Astrid Gooding, Uke Bosse © BGF & private Business Jury and Host for the Baltic Games Fest Awards Are Set Jan Halwe from ByteRockers' Games, Marilena Cassetta from Crytek and Astrid Gooding from Terminal3 are the jury for the Baltic Games Fest Awards. The awards ceremony will be hosted by Uke Bosse. The Baltic Games Fest (BGF), which will take place on 11 to 12 April 2025 at the By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Could not fulfil the increased expectations since the success of Hogwarts Legacy: David Haddad. Reports that Haddad, president of Warner Bros. Games, would be leaving the media group began circulating back in January 2025. © BusinessWire/Warner Bros. Games Business Monolith Productions, Player First Games and WB Games San Diego Closed Warner Bros. Games has announced a strategic realignment to focus on key franchises. As a result, the three US studios Monolith Productions, Player First Games and WB Games San Diego have been closed. The Wonder Woman game was also cancelled. After the recent upheaval, it became apparent, but probably not By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
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
