370,000 euros go to Veil of Ashes by Greifenmaer. © Greifenmaer Development MFG Baden-Württemberg Funds Six Games With 750,000 Euros With 750,000 euros in total, MFG Baden-Württemberg is funding six games in the current round. 20,000 euros go to EarReality and Reija each, while the biggest batch goes to Greifenmaer for Veil of Ashes. The next round closes on 31 July. In its current funding round, south-western state By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© DevGamm Events DevGamm Vilnius 2024 Opens Game Submission DevGamm Vilnius in June is now looking for game submissions. Devs can submit for the showfloor, award show and public pitch. The deadline is 15 May. For the upcoming summer edition of DevGamm in Vilnius, developers can now submit their games for various categories. Namely, the DevGamm Awards Competition, the By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Last year's debut brought 3,000 people in. © Games Ground Business Games Ground Berlin Comes Back November 2024 After last year's successful debut, Games Ground Berlin will be back at Alte Münze from 14 to 16 November with two days for B2B und one day for B2C visitors. The exhibition floor will be bigger this time. A ticket presale goes live in May. With a debut By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Fritz Egner (centre), Stephan Berendsen (right) and Hans Ippisch (left) will soon be unveiling details of their joint project. © BBG Entertainment Business BBG Entertainment hires Hans Ippisch and Fritz Egner Along With new Licences Munich-based developer and publisher BBG Entertainment is releasing several retro IP games in the next year. With radio star Fritz Egner and Hans Ippisch of Computec and devcom fame, BBG is also implementing several unannounced prestige IPs in the coming months. Munich game developer BBG Entertainment is expanding its business By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
The two biggest events in the Caggtus streams of 2024: LAN finals for TFT and LoL and the Bisalina Speedruns. © Caggtus Business LAN Finale and Speedrun Event dominate Caggtus 2024 Viewer Numbers In last week's Caggtus Leipzig's online streams, most concurrent viewers were engaged at the LAN finales on Sunday. Rank two of average and peak viewers goes to the Bisalina Speedrun event on Saturday. The stage events of last week’s Caggtus Leizig have continually been streamed By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Phoenix Games, Games Workshop Publishing Phoenix Games expands Warhammer Collaboration with Games Workshop Due to the success of Warhammer Combat Cards for Mobile, Karlsruhe game company Phoenix Games has expanded its cooperation with Games Workshop. New Warhammer sub-universes will now be implemented into the title. Games parent company Phoenix Games from Karlsruhe is expanding its collaboration with the Warhammer brand. The partnership between By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
After an internal enquiry to Claudia Roth, Gramling critisises the missing implementation of the funds. © DBT I Stella von Saldern Business Games Funding: Still no Planning for Culture Fund Possible After an enquiry to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, opposition politician Fabian Gramling critisises that the additional 33 million euros in culture funding for the games industry are still not available and apparently won't be for the foreseeable future. Apart from discussing esports, By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Sabine Deutscher, Member of the Executive Board of AOK Rheinland/Hamburg. © AOK Rheinland/Hamburg Esports AOK Rheinland/Hamburg goes FIBO esports The health insurer AOK Rheinland/Hamburg will be part of health fair FIBO from 11 to 14 April in Cologne with an esports booth. Athletes from Fortuna Düsseldorf Gaming and Borussia Mönchengladbach E-Sports are expected. The health insurance company AOK Rheinland/Hamburg will be present with an esports booth at By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The teams from Common Colors, One More Cup Studios and Turtle Knight Games were represented with their games at the joint Hessian stand in 2023. © HessenAgentur Events Hesse Sends Five Indie Devs to Gamescom 2024 With five exhibition booths at Indie Arena Booth, the central German state of Hesse builds on its premiere from last year and sends indie studios from the region to gamescom 2024. Deadline for nominations is 21 April. Economics Minister Kaweh Mansoori emphasises the success of last year's experiment. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Indie Outpost Development Indie Outpost Nuremberg with CipSoft and Sluggerfly in May The Indie Outpost returns to Nuremberg on 6 May with talks by publisher and developer CipSoft and platformer dev Sluggerfly. The indie networking and learning event Indie Outpost in Nuremberg, Franconia, returns on 6 May 2024 on 18:00 o’clock at the Künstlerhaus, KunstKulturQuartier. This time, two corportains will By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Devolver Publishing "Der Kühne Knappe" – The Plucky Squire Gets Devolver's First Localised Game Name With The Plucky Squire, Devolver will for the first time localise a game's name in different language areas. In GSA, the game by All Possible Futures will be known as Der Kühne Knappe. With the upcoming The Plucky Squire by All Possible Futures, publisher Devolver Digital enters into By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Odak is now Global PR Lead for Techland. © Odak Business Sandro Odak becomes Global PR Lead for Techland One of Germany's most prominent games journalists turned PR Leads goes global: Former Xbox GSA Lead Sandro Odak is now Global PR Lead for Dying Light dev Techland. Sandro Odak has been Xbox GSA’s Communication Lead for five years, and before that, he headed several video game By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
