Digital Minister Fabian Mehring has initiated the Funding Finder. © Andreas Gebert Development Funding Finder: Why Games Funding Isn’t in the New Bavarian Search Engine – Yet The new Funding Finder search engine of the Bavarian Digital Ministry doesn't index game funding. At least not yet: According to a Ministry answer to a GamesMarkt query, later updates will incorporate Bavaria's games funding programmes as well. Today, the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© ExP Development ExP Talks Bring VFX Artists to Munich On the next event from ExP – Expert Talks and Pretzels, Sophie Kordes from KingArt games and Florian Smolka from Maschinen-Mensch are sharing their knowledge. The theme of the event on 8 October at the Medien.Bayern offices: VFX. With the second round of their new event series ExP – Expert Talks By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© DevGamm Business First Big Batch of DevGamm Lisbon Speakers Revealed After the reveal of John Romero as headliner of DevGamm Lisbon 2025, more speakers have been set. Among them are Guido Schmidt, Director of Design Rovio, Lorna Power, Head of Community Massive Monster, Arno Schmitz, Technical Art Director Guerrilla and more. DevGamm Lisbon has announced a batch of new speakers, By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Initial blockout in the level tool. The tool can transform the blockout into several styles, like those below. © Pixel Maniacs Development In Development: Level Tools for Pixel Maniac's ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Twitch Business Twitch Drops Dates for TwitchCons 2025 in Europe and North America Then in its tenth year, the TwitchCon will take place from 31 May to 1 June in Rotterdam and from 17 to 19 October in San Diego. At today's opening keynote of TwitchCon NA 2024, CEO Dan Clancy shared details about the coming updates to several systems. At By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© BIG Esports Philips OneBlade Sponsors Berlin International Gaming in Young Player Programme As cooperating partner for Berlin International Gaming's BIG Selecta talent programme, Philips OneBlade is entering esports. From today on until 22 September, a bootcamp with developmental mentoring programme will prepare young players for professional esports careers. Esports association Berlin International Gaming (BIG) has acquired a new sponsor for By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Assemble / Spellgarden Publishing Sticky Business Cooperates with Among Us for Free DLC Stuttgart studio Spellgarden Games and Wiesbaden publisher Assemble Entertainment have hooked a big international cooperation: Innersloth's Among Us will be part of Sticky Business with a sticker set from next week. Stuttgart studio Spellgarden Games and Wiesbaden publisher Assemble Entertainment have hooked a big international cooperation: Their cosy By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Nintendo Products The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom With the next The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo does more than honour Zelda with being the first female protagonist of the series. The open gameplay is deliberately reminding of Breath of the Wild's openness and player-centered creative solutions. The next mainline Zelda game is a bit on the By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Subotron Campus Subotron Live Pitch Competition 2024 Nominates Five Student Team Finalists Five student teams have been selected to compete in the Subotron Live Pitch Competition 2024. They will now receive a mentoring by Rami Ismail, before they pitch their games in front of a live international jury on 22 November. The finalists of the Subotron Live Pitch Competition 2024 have been By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Nina Kiel joins TH Cologne as Research Assistant. Their expertise in inclusion fits exceptionally well. © Nina Kiel / TH Cologne. Campus Nina Kiel Joins TH Cologne's Inclusive Gaming Project as Research Assistant They have been an advocate for inclusive gaming for years, a Head of Diversity & Inclusion in the industry and a renowned games journalist and researcher. Now, Nina Kiel has started as Research Assistant for a project on inclusion in gaming at TH Cologne. They have been Head of Diversity By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© DevGamm Business DevGamm Lisbon Award Registrations Looking for Games The DevGamm Awards are open for game registrations until 30 September. Teams under 50 people are eligible to be nominated for cash prizes of 100,000 dollars in total. The ceremony will be held on 15 November in Cascais, near Lisbon in Portugal. Up until 30 September, developers can still By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The caggtus 2024. © niclass.de Business caggtus 2025: Exhibitor Registration Begins in October, Product Sales at Booths Now Possible The exhibitor registration for caggtus 2025 in Leipzig begins mid-October. For the first time, regular exhibitors are also allowed to sell their own products directly at the booths. From 11 to 13 April 2025, the third iteration of caggtus Leipzig comes back. Now, the date for the coming exhibitor registration By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read