© SwissGames Development SwissGames Opens Calls for gamescom and She Got Game 2025 SwissGames is opening their call for application for the delegation to gamescom 2025 in Cologne as well as for the mentoring programme She Got Game. The deadlines are in January for gamescom and in December for She Got Game. For the latter, women from outside Switzerland can apply as well. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Games/Bavaria Business GG Bavaria 2025 Announced, Now With Business Day The third edition of GG Bavaria will take place from 28 to 30 March 2025. This year, the Friday will be a business day for the first time, granting the industry members intimate access and the opportunity to network before the consumers conquer the halls on the weekend. The third By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Endeavouring for accessible gaming since 2020: Gaming ohne Grenzen, here at the award show 2023. © Gaming ohne Grenzen Business German Network Accessible Gaming Invites Participants from GSA Since yesterday, the Network Accessible Gaming by Gaming ohne Grenzen, the InclusiveGameLab and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is online. Anyone from Germany, Austria and Switzerland can participate to foster a more accessible gaming landscape. A new way to connect for more inclusion and accessibility in games: Since By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Electronic Arts Products Dragon Age: The Veilguard The newest Dragon Age release took ten years. Whether fans and new players alike will be hooked by the continuation of the story after such a long time remains to be seen. But the strengths of a BioWare RPG are all there. Almost to the day ten years after Dragon By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© SIN Events Educational Media Awards Honour Several GSA Indie Games With the Educational Media Awards 2024, SIN - Studio im Netz has honoured not only paedagogic apps, but also a range of titles from the GSA region and one from France. We congratulate Emergo Entertainment, Causa Creations, Microbird, HandyGames, Massive Miniteam and Focus Entertainment for the victory. On 30 October By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The board of the Cologne Game Syndicate, elected on 30 October 2024. © Cologne Game Syndicate Business Cologne Game Syndicate Founded, Looking to Grow Under the aegis of KölnBusiness, the Cologne Game Syndicate e.V. has consolidated yesterday. The first board election favored Dieter Schoeller (Headup GmbH), Stefan Schmidt (Indie Hub), Florian Köster (Critical Rabbit), Wolfgang Schmitz (Ahoiii Entertainment), Frank Obermaier (KölnBusiness Wirtschaftsförderung) and Thomas Rössig (former Flying Sheep Studios). As KölnBusiness had announced By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The Indie Arena Booth at gamescom 2024. © Rolf Otzipka Business Indie Arena Booth Gets 370,000 Euro Creative Europe Funding As part of the current Creative Europe Media round for market funding, the Indie Arena Booth by Super Crowd has received 370,000 euros in EU funds. In the current funding round of Creative Europe Media for European markets, 16.3 million euros have been allocated. 3.4 million euros By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Sonia Fizek speaking on last year's Sustainability Nexus. © CGL, SpielFabrique Business Sustainability Nexus 2024 Connects Nordics and Germany The second Sustainability Nexus of BSG!Go and SpielFabrique happens on 12 November in several Nordic cities as well as in Cologne, Berlin and online. Participation online or at the Cologne Game Lab event is free of charge. Together with interregional EU project BSG-Go!, the agency SpielFabrique invites to the By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Pokemon Company Publishing Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket is Now Live Announced in February, the Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket is now live for mobile. The game wants to streamline the card battles while simulating the rush of opening packs of visually appealing cards. The Pokémon Company group has launched the new Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket app for iOS and By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Zoran Roso Consulting Business Markus Wilding Joins Zoran Roso as Consultant Marketing veteran Markus Wilding has gone freelance recently, and is now joining Zoran Roso Consulting for one of his first official contracts. Marketing veteran Markus Wilding has a new contract: On LinkedIn, he announced that he would work with Zoran Roso on his marketing and publishing consultancy firm Zoran Roso By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Chances are high that one of the DevGamm awards goes to GSA this year. © DevGamm Business DevGamm Awards 2024 Nominations Feature Strong Contenders from GSA At the DevGamm Awards 2024 in Portugal on 15 November, the nominations are chock-full with strong contenders from Germany and Austria. Hoping for an award are bippinbits, Christoph Minnameier, Sven Ahlgrimm & Mathilde Hoffmann, Osmotic Studios, Mostly Games, Causa Creations and neoludic. btf is even nominated twice for Constance. The By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Jakob Wössner joins MFG Digital Culture. © MFG Business Jakob Wössner joins MFG Digital Culture for Museums and Serious Games The funding agency MFG Baden-Württemberg has employed Jakob Wössner in the Digital Culture track: He will work with museums on projects that also involve serious games and gamification. The southwestern German funding agency MFG Baden-Württemberg welcomes a new team member: Jakob Wössner is newly employed in the area of Digital By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
