How are German institutions and European self-regulatory bodies handling the DSA? We talked to (from top left, clockwise) Dr. Jan Eumann, Director of the Media Authority of Rhineland- Palatinate and Chairman of the KJM, Dr. Tobias Schmid, Director of the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia and European Commissioner of the DLM, Dirk Bosmans, Director General, PEGI and Lorenzo von Petersdorff, Deputy Managing Director, USK. © Todd Trapani/Pexels, Landesanstalt für Medien NRW, Jens Jeske, USK, PEGI Business G+ How Minor Protection Agencies are Grappling With DSA's New Standards By Pascal Wagner • 8 min read
Fully loaded: The top floor of the KunstKulturQuartier in Nuremberg was completely packed with a game dev audience. © GamesMarkt/Pascal Wagner Development G+ Indie Outpost Fills Nuremberg Venue, Speakers Honour Pixel Maniacs By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
Lead actress Ella Purnell and show runner Jonah Nolan on the set of the Fallout series. © 2022 Amazon Content Services LLC Business Fallout TV Series Hits 65m Views and Young Viewer Record The Fallout TV series by Bethesda and Amazon MGM Studios had the most successful start with young viewers of all Amazon series. Globally, it reached 65 million viewers in just over two weeks. Big successes for Bethesda and Amazon MGM Studios: The Fallout series was streamed by more than 65 By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Serious Bros Development Serious Bros. Ports Imagine Earth to Switch and PlayStation Braunschweig studio Serious Bros. is porting their 2021 planet builder Imagine Earth to Switch and PlayStation consoles in May. Serios Bros, the indie development team from Braunschweig, is porting their laid-back sci-fi builder Imagine Earth from to Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The game is currently available on PC By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Microbird Development Dungeons of Hinterberg Releases 18 July 2024 The much-anticipated Dungeons of Hinterberg by Vienna studio Microbird and Curve Games will release in July for Xbox, PC and Game Pass. The anticipated Austrian action adventure Dungeons of Hinterberg by Microbird from Vienna and publisher Curve Games has gotten a release date: The game will release for PC, Xbox By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Games Ground Business Games Ground Berlin Shares First Look at Programme and Tickets Games Ground Berlin has revealed its schedule structure as well as the two ticket categories that will be sold from 1 May onward. On 1 May, the ticket sales period for Games Ground Berlin this November will commence. The starting period will consist of a limited stock sale that includes By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Webedia Business GameStar Tech Breaches 100m Annual Page Views With over 100 million page views in the last 12 months, Webedia's most recent GameStar brand GameStar Tech has proven its worth, the company says. For future growth, the team of Mirco Kämpfer and Matthias Hohn is looking for new employees as well. Since going online in July By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Assemble / Marcinek Business GermanDevDays Open Registration, Looking for Speakers The GermanDevDays 2024 on 7 and 8 August are now open for ticket buyers, learners and teaching staff, the latter two being eligible for free tickets. The conference is also looking for speakers until 20 May. Registrations for this year’s GermanDevDays (GDD) from 7 to 8 August in Frankfurt By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The shirt shows Franconia, but the walls are in Lower Saxony: Dennis Quaisser is now part of Pixel Maniacs. © Quaisser Business Pixel Maniacs Recruits Dennis Quaisser as Business and Funding Manager After having had to close his own studio in February, Dennis Quaisser becomes a remote Franconian with a new job: As Business Developer & Funding Manager at Nuremberg's indie center Pixel Maniacs. After he had to close down his six-person studio Suspicious Games in February due to a By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Yager under MD Ullmann is co-developing Exoborne with Sharkmob. © Yager, Ullmann / Tencent Development Yager is Co-Developing Two New Tencent Games Since 2022, MD Timo Ullmann's Yager is developing Dune: Awakening in the Tencent parent company. Now, the Berlin studio is taking up another co-development: Exoborne together with Swedish-British Sharkmob. The announcement comes in Yager's 25th anniversary year, following a rebranding. In the year of its 25th By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The Gothic 1 Remake is developed by Alkimia Interactive © THQ Nordic Publishing THQ Nordic Reveals Store Pages and Collector's Edition for Gothic 1 Remake With an expensive and limited Collector's Edition, THQ Nordic is revealing more details about Gothic 1 Remake developed by Alkimia. While THQ Nordic, soon to be Coffee Stain & Friends subsidiary, is still not revealing the release date of their Gothic 1 Remake made by Alkimia Interactive (not By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
