© Guidelight Games / Ghost Ship Publishing Products SpellRogue Rolling dice and manipulating them to cast spells is the basic idea behind SpellRogue - a deck-building roguelike with turn-based combat. The game comes from Guidelight Games and Ghost Ship Publishing, both based in Denmark, with the latter having big plans for this year. SpellRogue is about using magic dice, By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
© EG7 Business Enad Global 7 Closes Toadman Interactive and Cuts Jobs at Piranha Games Swedish group Enad Global 7 has announced plans to optimise its business. As a result, the team at Piranha Games will be reduced and Toadman Interactive will be closed. Toadman also had an office in Berlin. Enad Global 7 (EG7) has announced the initiation of a business optimisation plan at By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
GameStop outlet © Archive Picture Business GameStop Closes 69 Stores in Germany by the End of January Following the recent shutdown of its German web store, GameStop will close a total of 69 stores in Germany by the end of January 2025. Following the announcement in December that GameStop would be winding down its operations in Germany (GamesMarkt reported), the company has announced specific store closures. A By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Astro Bot, Balatro, Black Myth: Wukong, Helldivers 2 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle © DICE, SIE, Playstack, Game Science, SIE, Bethesda Business 28th Annual DICE Awards Finalists With One Nominee From Germany The nominees for the 28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards have been announced. A total of 60 games from the year 2024 have been selected. Among them is a game from Germany. The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has announced the nominees for its 28th Annual D. By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch © Dvora Studio, Headup Publishing Headup Releases Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch in Early Access This Month Developer Dvora Studio and publisher Headup have announced an updated Early Access release date for Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch. The game is a mix of deck building, dungeon defense, tactics and automated combat. It will be released later this month. Düren-based indie publisher Headup will release Dvora's dungeon defence By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Xbox Publishing Xbox Developer_Direct Returns on 23 January Microsoft has announced the first games showcase of the year (so far). On 23 January, four games will be featured in the Developer_Direct, including Doom: The Dark Ages, South of Midnight and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. On Thursday, 23 January at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK / 7pm CET, By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Dungeon Clawler © Stray Fawn Studio Products Dungeon Clawler Clawing instead of crawling. In this roguelike deckbuilding game from Swiss studio Stray Fawn Studio, players don't just draw cards. No, they use an arcade-style claw machine to (hopefully) draw the right items, weapons and buffs for the challenge of each battle. Even as Stray Fawn Studio continues By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Yves Guillemot, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer © GamesMarkt, Marcel Kleffmann Business Ubisoft Makes Itself Attractive to Potential Buyers by Delaying Assassin's Creed Shadows In a strategy update, Ubisoft announced that the company is pursuing "various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for Stakeholders". These could include an outright sale or a break-up of assets and franchises. And the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows has been By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Stunlock Publishing V Rising Hits 5 Million Sales Open-world vampire survival game V Rising has sold over five million units. Swedish developer Stunlock Studios thanks the community and plans to expand the game in 2025. Since its launch (May 2024 on PC and June 2024 on PlayStation 5), V Rising has attracted five million players to the dark By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Carolin Freitag, Founder and Managing Director of keySquare / Nils Ehring, Senior Project Manager © keySquare Business Visibility Becomes keySquare (Again) Visibility, the Berlin-based communications agency specializing in games and technology clients, will now operate under the name keySquare. Nils Ehring joins the team as Senior Project Manager. The new name is the old name, because the company was officially founded under this name in 2013. Visibility served as the brand By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© SIE Publishing Midnight Black Collection of PS5 Accessories Grows Sony Interactive Entertainment is launching the Midnight Black Collection of PlayStation Portal remote player and other accessories on 20 February 2025. The galaxy-inspired colour scheme has already been released for the DualSense wireless controller and PS5 console cover and will be expanded for the PlayStation Portal remote, DualSense Edge wireless By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Ride with Mavuika in Berlin on 12 January. © HoYoLove Events HoYoLove Organises Bike Safety Event in Berlin HoYoLove e.V. has joined forces with the ADFC Berlin and other partners to raise awareness about the visibility of cyclists in traffic. The event 'Ride with Mavuika' will take place on 12 January. On Sunday 12 January 2025, fans of Genshin Impact and other HoYoverse games will By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
