This year's youth jury, including last year's leader Alex Chumak (rear center) and organiser Ulrich Tausend (second from right). © GamesFestival Business GamesFestival24 Reveals Full Schedule At this year's GamesFestival in Munich, Julius Girbig from CDPR will show his way to success, Active Fungus brings historical gaming to the audience and the Amadeu-Antonio-Stiftung talk about hatespeech in games. This and much more is part of the full programme reveal. The fourth GamesFestival in Munich By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Nintendo's stages on gamescom are generally a sight to behold. Here: The 2018 "Battle Stage". © Nintendo Business Nintendo Skips gamescom 2024 Nintendo will not be part of gamescom 2024, the company told press outlets in a statement. Four months before the fair, this marks the first confirmed non-attendance on the otherwise 'record-booked' fair, as organisers claimed during the early booking phase. After attending last year's fair, Nintendo By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© None Business Çiğdem Uzunoğlu Leaves Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur After six years as Managing Director, Çiğdem Uzunoğlu leaves the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur. In her time, she had quadrupled the foundation's budget and team size. Her farewell will be held in Berlin in May. After more than six years at the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur, Managing Director Çiğdem Uzunoğlu By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© @noone Business Game Industry Conference: 10% Off for GamesMarkt Readers Until 18 April, Poland's biggest B2B meetup Game Industry Conference in Poznan offers Early Bird tickets for reduced prices. GamesMarkt readers can get an additional discount with a special promo code. For three more days, the Game Industry Conference (GIC) 2024 in Poznan offers Early Bird discounts for By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Kellner (left) and Söder will be at this year's DCP this week. © BMWK / CSU Business Söder and Kellner to Hold Laudatory Speeches at DCP For the first time since 2018, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder will attend the German Computer Game Award this year. Federal Commissioner Michael Kellner is also scheduled for a laudation speech. Although election campaigns for the Bavarian state level are over, this years German Computer Game Awards (DCP) 2024 will By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Shadow Business Shadow Launches own Game Store Cloud service company Shadow is launching its own PC games key store for customers. People with a Shadow subscription can buy Steam and Ubisoft keys for reduced prices there. Cloud computing company Shadow is launching its own digital PC gaming store. The shop page offers Steam and Ubisoft keys to By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Philipp Ebben is now MD of the LEZ SH and the EVSH. He stays as the EVSH's First Chairman. © EVSH Esports Esports Association SH makes First Chaiman Ebben its Managing Director With a change in articles, the E-Sport-Verband SH elected First Chairman Philipp Ebben into the additional position of Managing Director. He also united the role of MD for the State Center for Digitalisation and Esports in Kiel on himself. On yesterday’s general meeting in Kiel at the State Centre By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
One of Aerosoft's newest games, Notruf 112, will be part of the exhibition in Mannheim. © Aerosoft Events Aerosoft Exhibits at Games For Families Mannheim and Aero Friedrichshafen Sim dev Aerosoft will attend two games-adjacent fairs in April: Games For Families Mannheim from 27 April and Aero Friedrichshafen from 17 April. Honed in to the focus of each fair, Aerosoft brings games, simulators and hardware. Simulation dev and publisher Aerosoft is exhibiting on two games-adjacent trade fairs in By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
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
