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
A record number of attendees visited Game Industry Conference 2024. © GIC Business Game Industry Conference Ends 2024 With Record Numbers Game Industry Conference has brought 3290 attendees to Poland's largest game B2B expo, a new visitor record. On yesterday’s Sunday, 27 October 2024, the 17th Game Industry Conference (GIC) closed its doors in Poznan, Poland. And after it overtook Digital Dragons last year to become the biggest By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© game Development Tomorrow's #gamechanger Talk Informs About „Press Start: Gründungsstipendium Games“ After today's opened application process for the „Press Start: Gründungsstipendium Games“, the game association will hold an info panel as a #gamechanger talk tomorrow at 3:30 pm. Guests are Andreas Görgen from Claudia Roth's office and Nandita Wegehaupt, MD of the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur. Tomorrow By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Axon Flux Business Under the Hood: Early Prototype of Axon Flux's Cactus In our regular GamesMarkt series In Development, game studios present pictures of what's going on under the hood in their game making process. This time, Axon Flux shows an early prototype of Cactus and explains their process of finding the fun in a game project. By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
The business lounge was once again sponsored by Munich agency Marchsreiter Communications and brought warm food to the starved business attendees. © All pictures of not otherwise stated: GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business Impressions from Game Industry Conference 2024 By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
The 11 bit team on site announced more content for This War of Mine coming for the 10 year anniversary. The money will go to charity. © GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business CEEGA & Amnesty International Honour 11 bit, Larian and Indies At yesterday's Central & Eastern European Game Awards on Game Industry Conference, Croteam won Best Game for Talos Principle 2 and took home the Design award as well. Amnesty International partnered with the award show to honour Larian and 11 bit for effort and representation of human rights By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Bandai Namco, Giants Software, Ubisoft: The big ones of the industry are all at PGA, playable for consumers. © All pictures: GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business Impressions from Poznan Game Arena 2024 By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
The German delegation to Poland: After a stop in Katowice, they held the German-Polish Summit at GIC 2024. © GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business GIC Industry Summit Brings German and Polish Game Companies Together By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
