© DevGamm Business Madeira Games Summit 2025 Publishes Full Schedule The leadership event Madeira Games Summit on 3-4 November before DevGamm Portugal has released the full speaker lineup. Key highlights include fireside chats with Maria Sayans (CEO, ustwo games) and Mariina Hallikainen (CEO, Colossal Order), a keynote by Chris Petrovic of FunPlus and more. Madeira Games Summit, the management event By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Thomas Rössig (left) and Thorsten Hamdorf are looking for a third founder. © Rössig; Hamdorf Business Hamdorf and Rössig Aim to Found “Indie Studio Builder” Playing Mantis CEO Thomas Rössig and marketing veteran Thorsten Hamdorf are looking to found a "butler" company for indies, helping bring games from concept to release as fractional CxOs for these studios. They are currently seeking a third founder. Thomas Rössig, CEO and founder of Playing Mantis Studio, By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
AppMagic CEO Max Samorukov. © AppMagic People AppMagic CEO Max Samorukov: "PC Market Lacks a True, Unified Analytics Solution" With data company AppMagic's new Steam Analysis launching this month, we talked to CEO Max Samorukov about the difficulties of breaking into data acquisition on different platforms, the history of AppMagic and developer's needs for consistent data for their platforms of choice. This October, data aggregation By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
Current Amigo leadership Joachim Ulbricht (left) and Alexander Jost. © Amigo Business Amigo's US Subsidiary Shuts Down Due to Tariffs Amigo Games, the US branch of German board game company Amigo Spiele + Freizeit, ceases operation. CEO Alexander Jost shares that fluctuating production costs, especially after Trump's tariffs, made the company unviable. Amigo Games Inc., the US subsidiary of German board game company Amigo Spiel + Freizeit GmbH, is closing By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Hidden Trap, Mellow Games Products Hidden Trap Publishes Cologne Indie Game Blueberry Mellow Games alias Mel Taylor from Cologne has found a publisher for psychological indie game Blueberry: Hidden Trap from Spain, the publishers of Tiny Lands 2. Cologne indie game Blueberry by Mellow Games has a publisher: Hidden Trap, the publisher behind Tiny Lands 2. The Spanish company has worked as By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Automation, automation, automation. © Metaroot Products The Farmer Was Replaced Swiss automation game The Farmer Was Replaced by solo dev Timon Herzog and indie publisher Metaroot combines meditative automated farming with hardcore Python-like coding. What sounds unintuitive has become a great success. The Farmer Was Replaced by Swiss publisher Metaroot and swiss developer Timon Herzog has seen remarkable numbers for By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Mobidictum Business Mobidictum Conference 2025 Brings Mobile Experts to Istanbul On 21 and 22 October in Istanbul, mobile gaming experts meet for Mobidictum conference in Istanbul. The full program and speaker lineup are online now. Mobidictum Conference 2025, the Turkish games business event focused on mobile games, will take place in Istanbul on October 21-22. The organisers expect over 2000 By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Gaming Aid campus Gaming Aid Scholarship Assists Game Development Students The current round of the Gaming Aid Scholarship is open for submissions. Young talents who need financial help for their Bachelor's or Master's degree in a game programme can submit their application and get up to 800 euros monthly for their studies. With the Gaming Aid By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© GamesMarkt Business MICE and Men: "Only an Event Can Create These Emotions" Vienna event agency MICE and Men are organising Game City Vienna since 2007. In our interview at Game City 2025, managing partners Milena Riedel and Tarek Sharif talk about the fair’s success, their plans for the future and the Austrian event landscape. Event agency MICE and Men is carrying By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
© Andreas Tischler / Vienna Press Business Game City Vienna 2025 Breaks Visitor Record With over 87,000 people, Game City Vienna 2025 has broken last year's record by about 2,000. The 16th Game City Vienna with MediaMarkt as its main partner ended yesterday with a record attendance number. From October 10 to 12, over 87,000 visited Vienna City Hall. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Kathrin Radtke from Spellgarden Games will be part of the Scottish Game Developers Association's mentoring programm. © Spellgarden Games Business Scottish Game Developers Association Reveals First Mentors For their coming accelerator program, the new Scottish Game Developers Association has revealed their first mentors, among them Spellgarden Games' Kathrin Radtke. Interested mentees can register until 15 October. The new Scottish Game Developers Association (we reported) has revealed the first mentors for their upcoming Accelerator mentoring program. The By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Florian Schriebl (right) winning the Tetris Austria finals at Game City Vienna 2025. © Matthias Heschl esports Florian Schriebl is Austria's Best Red Bull Tetris Player At the Red Bull Tetris finale yesterday at Game City Vienna, veterinarian Florian Schriebl won the Austrian finals. He'll be competing at the Dubai world finale in December against 55 other finalists from all over the world. The Austrian national final of Red Bull Tetris took place at By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
