State Councillor Jana Schiedek and Senator for Culture and Media Dr. Carsten Brosda © Jan-Marius Komorek Business Senator's Roundtable 2025 and 20 Press Start: Start-up Grants in Hamburg One of the most important recurring events at the start of the year for Hamburg's games industry is the Senator's Roundtable, which once again provided an opportunity for open dialogue between industry and politics. 20 developers from Hamburg received the Press Start: Start-up Grant. On 29 By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
A PlayStation account will also be optional for Marvel's Spider-Man 2. The game is due for release on PC on 30 January 2025. © Sony, Marvel Publishing Sony Drops Requirement for PlayStation Network Account on PC Recent PC releases from Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation Publishing) have required a PlayStation Network account. For two titles already released and two upcoming titles, this requirement will become optional. The recent PlayStation releases on PC required a PlayStation Network account, which was widely criticised by gamers, especially as the games By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Yellow Brick Games Products Eternal Strands The first game from Canada's Yellow Brick Games, which employs renowned ex-developers from Ubisoft, Electronic Arts and BioWare, is called Eternal Strands. It's an action-adventure with surprisingly good and creative combat against towering enemies - and it seems pleasingly focused on the core elements. Magic, world By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
GOG Dreamlist © GOG.com Publishing GOG Dreamlist Started to Bring Back Games With Greater Vigour Online distribution platform GOG has launched the Dreamlist, a public tool to persuade publishers to re-release games that are no longer accessible. Also: Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 have been re-released. CD Projekt's GOG.com has launched Dreamlist, a community-based tool that allows people to vote for By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
RoadCraft © Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment Publishing Astragon to Distribute RoadCraft From Focus Entertainment in the GSA Once again, astragon Entertainment and Focus Entertainment are working together. In May 2025, the Düsseldorf-based company will distribute the console editions of RoadCraft in retail stores in German-speaking countries. Astragon Entertainment is once again partnering with Focus Entertainment (Pullup) for the distribution of RoadCraft. Announced at gamescom 2024, the sandbox By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Hideaki Nishino / Hiroki Totoki / Hermen Hulst © SIE PS.Blog / Sony Group & Sony Investor Database / Sony Group Corp. Business Hideaki Nishino Appointed President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Sony Interactive Entertainment has made changes to its management structure. Hideaki Nishino, currently CEO of the Platform Business Group, will become the new President and CEO. Hermen Hulst will remain CEO of the Studio Business Group. SIE Chairman Hiroki Totoki will become the new President and CEO of Sony Group By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Rebellion Products Sniper Elite: Resistance Rebellion's Sniper Elite franchise has more than 20 million players worldwide. And that number is set to grow substantially at the end of January 2025, when the next game in the series, Sniper Elite: Resistance, is released. It's hard to believe, but the Sniper Elite franchise By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
A first-person camera mode for building in Update 5. © Keen Games Publishing Full Release of Enshrouded Moved to 2026, but With a Full Roadmap for 2025 To mark the first anniversary of the Early Access release of Enshrouded, Keen Games has released the fifth content update and revealed that the 1.0 release of Enshrouded will not take place until the spring of 2026. Almost a year ago, Keen Games released Enshrouded into Early Access. Despite By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Everspace 2: Wrath of the Ancients © Rockfish Games Publishing Rockfish Games Is Back With Another Expansion for Everspace 2 The Everspace 2 team from Hamburg (Rockfish Games) is expanding its space looter-shooter RPG with several new star systems, a new player ship, a new campaign and side missions. Rockfish Games has announced a second expansion. Everspace 2: Wrath of the Ancients will continue the story, adding new star systems By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© ESL Esports Four German Esports Teams to Compete at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2025 The Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) is heading to Katowice, Poland for another Counter-Strike showdown. Four teams from Germany are also taking part in this major tournament. The first ESL Pro Tour (EPT) Championship of the year returns to Katowice for the 13th time (29 January to 9 February), with the By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap © Robot Entertainment Products Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap Following the (late) success of Orcs Must Die! 3, Robot Entertainment releases the spin-off Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, which retains many of the core elements of the series, but this time without a linear campaign, focusing instead on replayability with roguelite elements. A good idea? Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap is By Marcel Kleffmann • 6 min read
Ubisoft's three locations in Germany. © Ubisoft Business Ubisoft to Cut 185 More Jobs, Some of Them in Düsseldorf As part of its ongoing restructuring, Ubisoft will be cutting more jobs at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Reflections. Another studio in the UK will be closed completely. Ubisoft is to make a further 185 jobs redundant in Europe. The sites affected are Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
