© Bitkraft Business Bitkraft Launches Third Fund With a Volume of $275m Bitkraft Ventures has raised its third fund to invest in seed stage or Series A financing. With this fund, Bitkraft Ventures' investment volume will increase to over one billion dollars. Bitkraft Ventures is about to embark on a new investment round. Jens Hilgers' German-American company has launched the By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Screenshot Esports Esports World Cup Foundation Unveils Eight More Games for World Cup The games announced today bring the number of games to 18 that will be featured at the World Cup in Riyadh this summer. Joining established top brands such as EA Sports FC 24, League of Legends, Street Fighter, Tekken, Rocket League and Fortnite, Rennspiel from Competition Company, Germany, was added By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Newzoo Business Newzoo Sees Moderate Market Growth With Declining Playtimes The global market for PC and console games will grow by 2.6% to reach $93.5b in 2023. However, the moderate growth identified by Newzoo in its new report is accompanied by changes in gaming behaviour. The games market has recovered after a slight dip in 2022, but truly By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© GDC/Informa/CC BY 2.0 DEED Development GDC Meets Expectations and Announces Date for 2025 Ahead of the event, Informa predicted that the GDC would attract 30,000 visitors. This was achieved, and the GDC was a success in other ways too. There is also a date for 2025, for which delegations from GSA will presumably be travelling again. Nearly 30,000 people from all By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Dieter Schoeller, founder of Headup Games, buys back his former company © Thunderful Business Dieter Schoeller Buys Back Headup Games from Thunderful The Swedish Thunderful Group is selling its German publishing subsidiary Headup Games to Microcuts Holding, which is backed by Headup founder Dieter Schoeller. Headups subsidiary Studio Fizbin will apparently remain part of the Thunderful Group. In November, Thunderful announced that it was reviewing the sale of its German subsidiary Headup By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Sebastian Gutknecht is the first director of the BzKJ since it emerged from the Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors in May 2021. © BzKJ Business BzKJ supports up to eight child-friendly digital projects From now until 3 May, companies, foundations and associations can apply to the BzKJ for funding for digital projects suitable for children or for information and classification of such projects. The tasks of the Federal Agency for the Protection of Children and Young Persons in the Media (Bundeszentrale für Kinder- By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Older gamers in particular are much less interested in the young handheld PC device category © game Business High Interest in Handheld PCs in Germany One third of all gamers in Germany are at least interested in handheld PCs or plan to buy one. This is the result of a survey conducted by the industry association game. The trend towards mobile gaming computers is arousing great interest among German gamers. At least that is what By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Gunzilla Games' CEO and co-founder Vlad Korolov © Gunzilla Games Development Gunzilla Games Secures 30 Million Dollar Funding In the run-up to the launch of the battle royale shooter Off the Grid and the blockchain platform Gunz, Gunzilla Games has secured 30 million dollars in fresh capital. The German-Ukrainian studio raised a third, 10 million dollars, by issuing tokens. CoinFund and Avalanche's Blizzard Fund are leading By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The CS:GO team from Sprout won a total of seven times at the ESL Championship. The picture shows them at the award ceremony of the 2019 Winter Championship, which was played in Magdeburg © Stephanie Lieske/ESL (Archive picture) Esports Berlin-based Esports Organisation Sprout Ceases Operations Sprout has ceased operations with immediate effect. This was announced by the Berlin-based e-sports organisation on its website. Sprout is one of the founding members of the German e-sports organisation ESBD. It is a surprising end. Berlin-based e-sports organisation Sprout has announced on its website that it is to be By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
VGFB's General Manager David Verbruggen © Video Games Federation Belgium Business Belgian Games Market Grows to 708 Million Euros EA Sports FC 24 is the best-selling game and the PS5 the best-selling console in Belgium in 2023. This is according to market data recently published by the Video Games Federation Belgium. The total market grew by more than 20 percent. This means that the Belgian games market has experienced By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© kr3m Publishing kr3m Internationalises Online Games Platform Playground For the first time, kr3m has signed up French daily Le Monde as an international partner for its Playground online games platform. Further international deals are expected to follow. kr3m has long been an established partner for media companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The online games platform Playground, developed By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© DCP Business DCP Continues to Develop as a Brand with a New Look The German Computer Game Award (Deutscher Computerspielpreis; DCP) has been given a new look this year without attracting too much attention. The trophy has not changed, so the branding and the physical prize are separate. A new logo for the German Computer Game Award has been used on the website By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
