Business Friendly Fire 11 Reaches €2 Million in Donations After a record in direct donations, the Friendly Fire 11 event in December has now reached more than two million euros in donations for charity, total. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Game Poems Launches First “Playable Magazine”, Call for Second Issue Open Game Poems by Jordan Magnuson is looking for game submissions for the second issue. The project is a "playable magazine" of artistic short-form games. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Half Soup Labs and Assemble Announce Glintseeker Island Half Soup Labs from Offenburg and Assemble from Wiesbaden have announced Glintseeker Island, a mining adventure with excavation reminiscent of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Nioh 3 Reaches One Million Sales, Brings Series to 10 Million With one million units sold in the first two weeks, Nioh 3 brings the series to 10 million lifetime sales. It is also the most successful release of the series so far. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products VoodooDuck Self-Publishes Collector's Cove on 12 March Duisburg dev studio VoodooDuck releases their farming adventure Collector's Cove on 12 March for Steam, Switch and PS5. The game was funded through Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Pokémon Presents and Ports of LeafGreen and FireRed Announced for 27 February Happy Pokémon Day: On 27 February, not only will Nintendo and The Pokémon Company drop a Pokémon Presents, but also digital versions of two GBA series favourites. They'll not be in the Nintendo Online service, but buyable for 19,99€ each. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Business GameSkills Shows First Experts in Mentor Lineup The advanced training initiative for European studios GameSkills has shared the first names in the mentor lineup, including Kate Edwards, Tara Voelker, Celia Hodent and more. Applications for studios run until tomorrow. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Drova Comes to Mobile in April Just2D's "what if Gothic was a top-down RPG" hit title Drova, published by Deck 13 Spotlight, gets mobile versions for both iOS and Android on 23 April 2026. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Johannes Roth has been Mimimi's MD from founding to closure. His solo project brings back his love for coding from being a kid - through his kids (all photos: Johannes Roth Core Production). People "Cool... but Dad, How Can I Actually Land Now?" The former Mimimi Games founder Johannes Roth is back in games development: With one man show Core Productions and a love for the Nintendo 64. We spoke with him in detail about his reignited love for coding, how his family helped him shape expectations for his game and the end of his time at Mimimi. By Pascal Wagner • 9 min read
Business Shiro Unlimited To Publish Funday Games' Next Title French studio Shiro Games' publishing arm will distribute the next title from Danish studio Funday Games, makers of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. The game reveal will take place in April. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Creator Baso (left) is marketing the caggtus 2026 as ambassador. (Leipziger Messe / Niclas Schmidt) Business caggtus Leipzig 2026: New 18+ Area, Webedia Space, and 5,000 sqm Tabletop With new areas and more tabletop and TCG space, the caggtus takes place from 17-19 April in Leipzig: Webedia will host their own "FYNG City" area, an 18+ space will let people play USK18 games, and the tabletop space has massively grown, including tournaments in the German Major Series. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Credit: lello / Microids Products Microids Releases Richard Garfield’s King of Tokyo Digitally Richard Garfield's King of Tokyo will become a digital board game adaption made by Microids on 21 May, for all platforms. The physical editions will include exclusive board game expansion materials. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
