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
Cassie Flynn, Global Director of Climate Change at UNDP, and Rhea Loucas, CEO at PlanetPlay © Meredith Zinner, PlanetPlay Business Study: Bringing Sustainability Topics to Games Shows Positive Effects Over 181,000 players from 189 countries took part in a UN-supported survey by Play2Act, which analysed the impact of sustainability content in games. The results show that the messages in games are effective. The surveys were conducted on games like Subway Surfers, Pokémon GO!, Beatstar, and Avakin Life from By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Exclusible / Belvedere Business Belvedere Celebrates On Site Game Party After Roblox Success Since its launch in December, At Leap, the Roblox game created by Austria’s Belvedere Museum, has attracted an impressive 1.5 million players. That’s reason enough to celebrate this unique approach to art with a special game party at the Belvedere including a live Twitch stream on 12 By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Slow Bros Products Harold Halibut Wins Animated Games Award Germany A few days before the DCP, Cologne-based studio Slow Bros. had reason to celebrate winning the Animated Games Award Germany. The award was presented at the successful Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film The International Festival attracted a total of 30,000 visitors this year. A further 40,000 came By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© AEVI Business Spain's Games Market Grows to 2.41 Billion Euros in 2024 The Spanish gaming market continues to grow. According to new data from the Spanish video game association AEVI, the overall market grew despite a decline in hardware sales, as seen in other key markets. For the first time, there were more female gamers than games in Spain. The data comes By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© GM Products New Month, New Number 1 in the German Games Charts April 2025 The PlayStation charts predicted it just as the Steam charts did: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivision Remastered is storming every hit list in no time and the German game association charts are no exception. Other new releases miss the top 10. In fact, Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls IV: By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Kickstarter Business Kickstarter Makes Pledge Manager Available for Creators Kickstarter is now supporting creators with a new tool called the Pledge Manager, designed to help manage backers after a successful campaign—without requiring them to leave the platform. The newly launched Pledge Manager offers a range of features aimed at simplifying post-campaign tasks. One notable addition—likely influenced by By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Gustavo Steinberg, Henriette Reker and Oliver Frese at gamescom latam 2025 © Koelnmesse Business Gamescom Latam 2025 Concludes With Broken Records and Above Expectations Following the visitor numbers, the organisers of gamescom latam have now presented the final report with further data. Koelnmesse and the City of Cologne are also satisfied with the partnership, as was reported on site by the Mayor of Cologne Henriette Reker and Oliver Frese, COO of Koelnmesse, who had By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Applovin-CEO Adam Foroughi © AppLovin Business Tripledot Studios Acquires AppLovin's Mobile Games Business As part of its Q1 financial results, AppLovin confirmed its plans to sell its games business, which had already been announced in February, and named British company Tripledot Studios as the buyer. Tripledot Studios acquires AppLovin's mobile games business As part of its Q1 financial results, AppLovin confirmed By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
