All winners of the DevGamm Awards 2025 (GamesMarkt) Products One DevGamm Award Goes to GSA, Two Grand Prizes to Indie Rockstars With Kaizen Game Works taking the biggest cash prize for Promise Mascot Agency and YCJY the Grand Jury Prize for Keep Driving, DevGamm Awards 2025 in Lisbon turned out to be an indie star fest. One award went to Austria for Crowded by Nestwork Games. Despelote and Drop Duchy also won big. By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
Winners Hans von Knut Skovfoged and Carolina Ronchi at the Public Pitch 2025 with Rami Ismail. (GamesMarkt) Danish and Italian Studios Win DevGamm Public Pitches At this years DevGamm Lisbon Public Pitch with Rami Ismail, Bird Island from Denmark and Holy Radish from Italy took the prizes. Their games Njords Embrace and Midgardr were judged by a jury of experts. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
DevGamm CEO Maria Chyrvona opening the 2025 event. Business DevGamm Lisbon 2025 Introduces New DevGamm Timeline At the DevGamm Lisbon 2025 opening, the 2026 event timeline was revealed, with Dubai in Spring and foggy Gdansk in Summer. The keynote was held by Chris Charla of Xbox about tips to reach more players in the ecosystem. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Europa Universalis V; Paradox Interactive Products Europa Universalis V Choose between the sword and the pen, the religious and the secular, and the aristocracy and the people. Paradox Interactive has released its "grandest strategy game" yet: Europa Universalis V. By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
Claus Ruhe Madsen, Minister of Economic Affairs, Transport, Employment, Technology and Tourism of Schleswig-Holstein at Baltig Games Fest 2025 (Holstenhallen Münster) Baltic Game Fest Returns, Ticket Sale Open The second Baltic Games Fest in Neumünster takes place on April 24 and 25 2026. The ticket sales are now open. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Business European Funding: €2 Million for Games Tools and Projects With its funding line Innovative Tools and Business Models, Creative Europe Media is awarding €7.7 million to Media projects, of which almost two million went to German games tools or initiatives by BlueBottle, Second Stage and SpielFabrique. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Daniel Marx, CEO of Osmotic Studios, resigns. The company had to let go most of their staff over the course of the year. Osmotic Studios Effectively Over, CEO Daniel Marx Resigns With his own resignation, Osmotic Studios CEO Daniel Marx shared that the Hamburg team had almost completely been let go. The company persists under co-founder Michael Kluge, but will not handle original productions at the moment. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Business “It Happens on PS5”: Sony Starts New Global Marketing Campaign Five years of adventures on PlayStation 5: With the "It Happens on PS5" campaign, Sony rolls out ads about wild happenings in games across 20 markets, including local events like UFO landings in Germany. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Wiebke Wiesner and State Secretary for the Arts Arne Braun (MFG). People Wiebke Wiesner Becomes New MD of MFG Baden-Württemberg Wiebke Wiesner will become the new managing director of Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (MFG). She will succeed Carl Bergengruen on July 1, 2026. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Horses of Hoofprint Bay (left; Thogli Studios) and It's Always Happy at Chubby's (Pixel Maniacs) have been announced recently. Products Cozy or Spooky? Two Bavarian Game Announcements Have it All Two Bavarian game studios, Thogli Games from Fürstenfeldbruck and Pixel Maniacs from Nuremberg, have announced their new game projects around Halloween: A horse game homage, including horse game expert Alice Ruppert, and a horror culinary quest respectively. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Pan-European Virtual Worlds Association Founded The private public partnership association VWA has been founded with support from Horizon Europe to bring extended reality in the EU forward. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The winning project on the expert level: Hydropolis by Maximilian. Campus Research Ministry Awards Future Energy Ideas In Minecraft The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space has awarded 14 young Minecraft builders for their future visions around sustainability and energy production in this year’s Science Year. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
