© A Maze. Business Early Bird Tickets and Date for A Maze. 2025 Are Set The next A Maze. will take place from 14 to 17 May 2025 at silent green, Panke Culture and Transmediale Studio in Berlin. The first 250 cheaper tickets are now available. The organisers are also looking for idea submissions currently. From 14 to 17 May 2025 at silent green, Panke By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© CrazyBunch; Assemble Entertainment Development Hamburg Studio CrazyBunch is Closing After 2024, the Hamburg studio CrazyBunch is closing its doors. Team members shared the news that after the current project Tattoo Tycoon is wrapped up, the studio will be shut down. The team was among other games responsible for two reboots of the Leisure Suit Larry series. At the end By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Ubisoft Products Just Dance 2025 & Just Dance VR Not only is Just Dance 2025 Edition building on the existing platform of songs from the 2023 and 2024 Editions, Ubisoft is also bringing the first VR title of the series, Welcome to Dancity, out at the same time. There are few stables in the games publication landscapes as consistent By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© OutRight Games Products SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game The scatterbrain starfish gets his first game: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game is more of a playground than anything else, chock-full with references, memes, plenty of humour and the original voice cast. Who lives under a rock under the sea? There’s a reason why the famous cartoon show By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Spiel Essen 2024 Business Spiel Essen has Sold Out for the First Time in 2024 This year's board game fair Spiel Essen has broken a double record: it was the largest Spiel ever in terms of square meters, and it also sold out all tickets for the first time in the fair's history, bringing in 204,000 people on four days. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Sega Products Metaphor ReFantazio A new game from the Persona team, bringing all that's good from the games without the restriction's of the game's universe and high school setting: Metaphor ReFantazio has been awaited eagerly by JRPG fans and newcomers alike. You never saw that coming: The development By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Zurich Pop COn Business Zurich Pop Con & Game Show Reaches Visitor Record With 43,500 visitors, the Zurich Pop Con & Game Show has peaked over its predecessor year. Important stations were Nintendo's exclusive gaming booth and star appearances, such as those connected to Warhammer 40.000: Space Marine 2. Seven halls full of 450 exhibitors brought a record of By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Munetaka Aoki as Goro Majima in the new series. © SEGA / Amazon Business Amazon Prime and RGG Studio Drop "Like a Dragon" Live-Action Trailer "Like a Dragon" developer Ryu Ga Gotoku and Amazon have dropped the trailer for the TV series of the same name. The lead role of Kiryu Kazuma will be played by "Kamen Rider" star Ryoma Takeuchi, with Masaharu Take as director and Munetaka Aoki as Goro By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© www.HelenNicolai-BusinessPortraits.de Business Parents Rely On Labels: Germany's Regulatory Body USK Presents Study For its 30 year anniversary, the German Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body USK presents a study among parents, conducted by YouGov. The results see the age labels and the new classification system find massive support with German parents. For its 30 year anniversary, the German Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body USK isn’ By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Kalunga, the serial format Mesut Özil: Zu Gast bei Freunden, Flick Shot Rogues © MBB Development Medienboard Funds 13 Games and XR Titles With A Million Euros The current funding round of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg included 1,6 million euros, more than a million of it for games and XR titles. Grand profiteers are Realities.io with 250,000 euros for Puzzling Places 2D and Aldamami Games with 160,000 euros for Bloodletter. The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg has By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The current D&D handbook is topping the franchise sales. © Wizards of the Coast Business 2024 Player's Handbook Becomes Fastest-Selling Dungeons & Dragons Product Ever The recently released rulebook is the fastest selling Dungeons & Dragons product of all time. It had been pre-sold on selected events like gamescom before the official release on 17 September. Wizards of the Coast hasn't released the exact sales numbers, however. The 2024 Player's Handbook, By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Impressions from Play 2023. © Bente Stachowske Business Play Festival Looking for Speakers, Award Nominees Now Online Until 13 October, the Play - Creative Gaming Festival in Hamburg is looking for speakers on the Topic "You got the Power". The award nominees for the festival from 11 to 16 November are also online now: Oddada by Sven Ahlgrimm & Mathilde Hoffmann from Germany and A By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
