Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot © Ubisoft Business Ubisoft Announces Losses In Line With Guidance During Restructuring Process Ubisoft has presented its figures for the financial year ending in March. Turnover fell significantly, and the result slipped into negative territory. Nevertheless, confidence prevails, as both outcomes were expected given the ongoing reorganisation process. These are certainly not figures to be particularly happy about. Ubisoft's net bookings By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Helge Jürgens, Managing Director of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg © GamesMarkt Business Berlin Also Bidding to Host DCP 2026 After years of alternating between Berlin and Munich, the Deutscher Computerspielpreis (DCP; German Computer Game Award) is now awarded through an open application process. For 2025, Berlin was the sole applicant. Although Bavaria had already expressed its interest in hosting the event in 2026, Berlin has now confirmed its intention By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Three of the four teams presented their cheques on site at Spotlight Games Berlin in the Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall). © Stephan Steininger Business Scheck is back: Berlin Developers Repay €366,000 in Funding At Spotlight Games Berlin, ahead of Deutsher Computerspielpreis (DCP), four Berlin studios repaid their state funding, three of them through a symbolic cheque handover. Good news for games funding in Berlin: as revealed by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg at Spotlight Games Berlin, four development teams have successfully repaid their funding recently. A By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Make2Matter Business 1UP and Newbase Join Forces Under Make2Matter Creator Collective With 1UP and newbase, two of the leading artist management agencies are joining forces to create a joint brand: Make2Matter is not a new agency, but a curated creator collective for gaming, lifestyle, music and edutainment with over 160 million followers and artists beyond the portfolios of 1UP and newbase. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Mainframe Industries' Pax Dei was honored as Finnish Game of the Year 2024 © Finnish Game Awards 2025 Business PC Games Rule in the Land of Mobile Games One day before the Deutscher Computerspielpreis, the Finnish games industry honoured its top titles and celebrated its 30th anniversary. Remarkably, PC games were the big winners this time around, even though Finland is considered a mobile gaming country. In fact, the dominance of PC games at the Finish Game Awards By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Rudolf Inderst (left) and Daniel Martin Feige © Transcirpt Campus Transcript Publishes "Computerspiele. 50 zentrale Titel" by Feige and Inderst In their new joint book "Computerspiele. 50 zentrale Titel" (Computer games. 50 key titles), authors and professors Daniel Martin Feige and Rudolf Inderst use 50 selected games to present the diversity and appeal of this medium from a scientific perspective. The new book "Computerspiele. 50 zentrale Titel& By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Nintendo Business Switch 2 Pre-Sales Make Nintendo YouGov's Biggest Buzz Mover YouGov has declared Nintendo the Biggest Buzz Mover in Germany in May. This is due to a sharp rise in the BrandIndex score, which can be attributed to the start of pre-sales for the Switch 2. The hype surrounding the Switch 2 should come as no surprise to anyone in By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Michael Terhörst, head of KidD. © Uwe Völkner/Bundesfoto Business KidD Initiated 70 Proceedings in Its First Year After its first year of existence, KidD has taken stock of its work to date. One particular success was that Steam removed all games without age ratings from its offering in Germany. Other providers also responded, and according to KidD, this is just the beginning. On 15 May, the Stelle By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Archive pictures of the GermanDevDays 2023 with Stefan Marcinek and Stephan Reichart as presenters of the Indie GDD Awards © Ulrich Schepp/GermanDevDays/Assemble Entertainment Business GermanDevDays Unveils Preliminary Programme for 2025 Two months before the GermanDevDays, the organisers have published the preliminary programme. The programme offers a wide range of informative talks from the field. This year's focus is on gaming podcasts. Although there may still be changes before the event, the publication of the preliminary programme means that By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
About Cannons and Sparrows (left) is an interesting story about a cannon searching for its destiny. The St Vincent Town project is a spin-off of Heaven's Hope (right-hand screenshot) by Mosaik Mask Studio © About Cannons & Sparrows/Mosaik Mask Studio Products Nordmedia is Funding 5 Games with 240,000 Euros At its first funding meeting of 2025, Nordmedia approved a total of €3.7 million in funding for 54 projects. This includes five game projects, which will receive just under a quarter of a million euros. The two largest grants in the games sector, each worth nearly €100,000, went By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© game Business Number and Age of German Gamers Continues to Rise The number of gamers in Germany is increasing significantly, particularly among older age groups. This is according to new data from game, based on surveys conducted by YouGov Shopper, NielsenIQ, and data.ai. While the year-on-year growth in gamer numbers is moderate, a look back to 2020 reveals a 9 By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Eugene Chernysh, Chief Operating Officer at AdsAdvisor © AdsAdvisor Business My.Games Launches AdsAdvisor as Service Platform for Third-Parties With AdsAdvisor, My.games has launched a new service platform that is also available to other companies as a service provider. AdsAdvisor is designed to help optimise the marketing performance of campaigns and is not limited to gaming apps. The tools, which AdsAdvisor now also offers to third-party app developers, By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
