Products Warhorse Confirms Tolkien RPG and New Kingdom Come Warhorse Studios has confirmed that they are not only working on more Kingdom Come, but also that the rumoured Lord of the Rings RPG is indeed in development. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Mick Prinz, Project Lead of Good Gaming Support (AAS) People Amadeu Antonio Foundation Launches Good Gaming Support With a new portal, Good Gaming Support by Amadeu Antonio Stiftung is offering help, counseling and education around hate, right-wing extremism and toxicity in gaming. Led by Mick Prinz, the platform starts with knowledge and endorsement by Janina Hille, Daniel Budiman and Fabian Siegismund. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Products Thrifty Business The newest cosy game by Spellgarden is a management sim with incredible graphics, laid back shop management and, most importantly, full decoration customisation. Thrifty Business is a banger in the vein of Sticky Business. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Nintendo Announced New Mobile Game Pictonico! Slated for release on 28 May, Pictonico! is Nintendo's newest mobile game. It takes users' photos and builds Wario Ware like minigames around them. By Pascal Wagner •
The afterparty at Digital Dragons 2026 in Krakow. (Picture: Digital Dragons) Awards Digital Dragons Awards Celebrate Bloober Team, 11 bit & Pixel Perfect Dude At yesterday's Digital Dragons Awards, Bloober Team and 11 bit studios took home most prizes. Sandfall Interactive's Clair Obscur took home the award for best international game. Pixel Perfect Dude won best Mobile game. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Map Map - A Game About Maps is Pipapo's current project. The newly funded prototype is also about mapping (Pipapo) Funding Gamecity Hamburg Funds Map Map Successor and Four Other Prototypes The prototype funding session of Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft's Gamecity Hamburg has awarded money to five studios: Pipapo Games, Odd Zeroes, Studio Gutheil, Chasmic Drop and Bird Outside Studio. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The sex toy project "Cute Little Fuckers" by Step Tranovich was funded through Kickstarter in 2020. It could not be posted there in 2026 briefly anymore (Step Tranovich) Products Kickstarter Takes Back Restrictions on Adult Content, But There's a Catch Kickstarter will not ban adult projects through its platform after community backlash. It says it was under pressure by payment providers, and that campaigners might still get into problems with the payment provider in the future. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
GIST Executive Board Member Cüneyt Devrim is one of the organisers. (GIST) People G+ Gaming Istanbul: "Istanbul's Biggest Advantage is Access" With Gaming Istanbul 2026's date reveal, we talked to Executive Board Member Cüneyt Devrim, about what defines Istanbul in the Turkish gaming market, how GIST handles B2B and B2C combination spaces and much more. By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
Campus DGSW Announces First Conference The German Society for Game Studies DGSW has announced its first conference at and together with Hochschule Darmstadt, only three weeks before the event takes place. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Impressions from the In Bloom event (Klang Games) Events Klang Games Holds 'In Bloom' Event for Seed during A Maze. During last week's start of A Maze. in Berlin, Klang Games held a gathering at their office for industry people, showing off their MMO Simulation Seed with a feature keynote, new playable content and the reveal of their companion app. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Products Steam Bans Japanese Adult Horror Title This Game Is Not Real From Release Japanese developer ruuya1124 announced that their game, which had garnered 24,000 wishlists on Steam already, would not be able to release there, likely because of mature content. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Dennis Hilla is newly appointed Social Media Manager for asap (Hilla) People Dennis Hilla Joins asap From Gameswelt Editor Dennis Hilla switches internally at Web Media: from Gameswelt to becoming Social Media Manager for brand agency asap. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
