Marcel Zurawka is CEO of Irox Games and one of the creators of Bongo Cat. Products Bongo Cat is on Its Way to 6 Million Players As Irox Games shared with GamesMarkt, their free productivity and idle game Bongo Cat broke five million players in January and currently sits at almost six. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Jasmine James and Travis Plane are Two Frogs in a Trenchcoat (Two Frogs). People Double Jump Comms Launches Indie Marketing Division Two Frogs in a Trenchcoat Double Jump Communications, the sister company to Fellow Traveller, has launched Two Frogs in a Trenchcoat, a new indie marketing division. It's led by Jasmine James and Travis Plane. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Business Summer Game Fest Runs On 5 June, 11pm European Time Geoff Keighly has released the schedule for this year's Summer Game Fest. For an all-nighter, tune in on 5 June at 11pm and stay for three hours of SGF and Day of the Devs. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Bochum might not be Tokyo, but it is the first German city with a pop-up mall store by Nintendo (Nintendo) Products Germany's first Nintendo Pop-Up Store Opens in Bochum It's the second mall store in Europe and the first in Germany: Nintendo is opening a pop-up store at Westfield Ruhr Park in Bochum, available in March and April. It will also hold the first German selection of toddler line My Mario. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Robert May is CEO of Blue Backpack, who made Constance. Their marketing referenced the genre behemoth Silksong out of necessity (Blue Backpack/Team Cherry) Products How Blue Backpack Marketed Constance After Silksong Constance is a tremendous Metroidvania from Berlin that released two months after Hollow Knight: Silksong. What did that do with the reception and marketing of the game? We talked to Robert May, CEO of Blue Backpack, about metroidvanias post-Silksong and working with Japanese publisher Parco. By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
Business Friendly Fire 11 Reaches €2 Million in Donations After a record in direct donations, the Friendly Fire 11 event in December has now reached more than two million euros in donations for charity, total. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Game Poems Launches First “Playable Magazine”, Call for Second Issue Open Game Poems by Jordan Magnuson is looking for game submissions for the second issue. The project is a "playable magazine" of artistic short-form games. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Half Soup Labs and Assemble Announce Glintseeker Island Half Soup Labs from Offenburg and Assemble from Wiesbaden have announced Glintseeker Island, a mining adventure with excavation reminiscent of Pokémon Diamond & Pearl. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Nioh 3 Reaches One Million Sales, Brings Series to 10 Million With one million units sold in the first two weeks, Nioh 3 brings the series to 10 million lifetime sales. It is also the most successful release of the series so far. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products VoodooDuck Self-Publishes Collector's Cove on 12 March Duisburg dev studio VoodooDuck releases their farming adventure Collector's Cove on 12 March for Steam, Switch and PS5. The game was funded through Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Pokémon Presents and Ports of LeafGreen and FireRed Announced for 27 February Happy Pokémon Day: On 27 February, not only will Nintendo and The Pokémon Company drop a Pokémon Presents, but also digital versions of two GBA series favourites. They'll not be in the Nintendo Online service, but buyable for 19,99€ each. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Business GameSkills Shows First Experts in Mentor Lineup The advanced training initiative for European studios GameSkills has shared the first names in the mentor lineup, including Kate Edwards, Tara Voelker, Celia Hodent and more. Applications for studios run until tomorrow. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
