© Assemble/ZoroArts Products Paddle Paddle Paddle by ZoroArts and Assemble Entertainment Releases Today ZoroArts alias Mateo Covic and publisher Assemble release the coop rage game Paddle Paddle Paddle today. The game marks Covic's first cooperation with a publisher, but the young developer has been very active before as well. Publisher Assemble and developer Mateo Covic alias ZoroArts have announced that the By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Q2 earnings call page showing the highlights of © Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast Business Final Fantasy Cooperation Skyrockets Revenue of Magic: The Gathering Publisher With the highest revenue in the first 24 hours of any set to date, Magic: The Gathering x Final Fantasy has driven up Hasbro's quarterly revenue significantly. The digital gaming segment, especially Monopoly Go!, played another big part as well. In yesterday's Q2 earnings call at By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© bpb Campus bpb Launches Handbook Gaming & Rightwing-Extremism German Federal Agency for Civic Education bpb has officially released their Handbook Gaming & Rightwing-Extremism today in a presentation hosted by the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. The German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, bpb) has officially launched their anthology called Handbook Gaming & Rightwing-Extremism today in By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Categories like 'erotic' have rapidly emptied on itch.io, loosing most explicit games. © Itch.io Business Itch.io Delists NSFW Games, Indicates Guidelines from Payment Processors After similar proceedings on Steam, indie game storefront itch.io now begins delisting adult games. Founder Leaf Corcoran lays open that the site has been urged by payment processors to do so. A new content creator guideline will be implemented in the near future that follows the demanded standards. Several By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
The next game in Chimera Entertainment's Songs of Silence game world has received prototype funding. © Chimera Entertainment Business FFF Bayern Funds 13 Games With Almost a Million Euros The next game in the Songs of Silence world by Chimera, the successor to EcoGnomix and more: FilmFernsehFonds Bayern has released their current funding round decisions, allocating money to two productions, five prototypes and six concepts. The allocation committee for FFF games funding met yesterday and decided to recommend 13 By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Narranauten/Narradiver Business New Narrative Design Conference InErGa to Premiere in Leipzig With an exclusive event for Narrative Design workers, the association Narranauten is announcing their own conference. InErGa will take place in September in Leipzig. For keynotes, Dom Schott, Falko Löffler and Tim Schuchert have already been confirmed. The Saxonian Narrative Design association Narranauten has announced a new conference: InErGa, short By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Game Dev Days Graz Business Game Dev Days Graz Announce Date for Tenth Anniversary The tenth Game Dev Days Graz will take place on 4 October at the Technical University of the Austrian city. This year, the Austrian developer meetup Game Dev Days at Technical University Graz is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Before the full programme, the organisers around TU Graz and newly appointed By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Steam Business Steams New Adult Game Ban Apparently Not Implemented in Germany With Valve bowing to the demands of credit card companies and banks, adult game developers have already begun to scout for ways to circumvent recent bans. Germany’s unique situation meanwhile might have prevented the inplementation of the new rules for now. With a recent change in their publishing guidelines, By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Scryfall/Cardmarket Business TCG Marketplace Cardmarket Cooperates with Scryfall Berlin-based trading card market leader Cardmarket has announced deeper integration with Magic: The Gathering search engine Scryfall through a contractual agreement. The contract is based on recent database improvements and serves as a test run for similar cooperations. Europe’s biggest trading card game online marketplace Cardmarket, based in Berlin, By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Johanna Pirker is the new Professor for N-Dimensional User Experience at TUM. © Matthias Rauch Campus Game Dev Professor Johanna Pirker Joins TU Munich Munich's Technical University has a new "games professor": Johanna Pirker, head of the GameLabGraz and former professor at Munich's LMU, has been appointed full Professor for N-Dimensional User Experience at TUM. She wants to bring industry, teaching and research together. Johanna Pirker, professor of By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Superlevel relaunches as Debuff. © Superlevel/Debuff Business German Games Site Superlevel Relaunches as Debuff Games Magazine Realigning itself into magazine-styled half-yearly publication, the independent games site Superlevel rebrands into Debuff magazine. Owners Christina Kutscher, Florian Zandt and Daniel Ziegener want to continue to pay writers fairly through a subscription model. The German independent video game publication Superlevel is rebranding and restructuring itself, becoming a new twice-yearly By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Digital Minster Fabian Mehring (left) and Hof County Councilman Oliver Bär (second from right) together with two of the LFG organisers, Ariane Pollak and Johannes Wurm, on-site © LFG Hof Business 2. LFG Hof Convinces With Political Program and Tabletop Cooperations Double the space, double the politicians: Fabian Mehring as well as County Council of Hof Oliver Bär visited the growing LFG in Bär’s hometown Hof this weekend. The event has positioned itself as a Franconian nexus for games, especially with a prestigious card game collaboration. On Saturday, 17 May, By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
