Sustainable Games Alliance Develops Standard for Games Industry to Comply with Regulations Stephan Steininger August 14, 2024 – 5 min read Share this post Jiri Kupiainen, Chairman, and Maria Wagner, Managing Director Sustainable Games Alliance (SGA) © SGA The EU Commission building in Brussels (By EmDee - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia) Politics European Consumer Protection Agencies Take Action Game Companies With Ingame Purchases The EU Consumer Protection Cooperation Network is targeting nine game companies with an EU-wide enforcement to bring their ingame currency practices in line with EU regulations. The companies are Activision Blizzard King, Crytek, InnoGames, Mojang, Plarium, PLR, Riot, Supercell and Ubisoft. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read EA Sports FC 27 / Transport Fever 3 / Control Resonant © EA Sports / Urban Games & Paradox / Remedy Entertainment Business G+ Weekly Steam Charts: How Well Do EA Sports FC 27, Control and Transport Fever 3 Resonate? EA Sports FC 27 tops the weekly Steam charts, but it is considerably less popular than its predecessor. Interestingly, however, the popularity of Control Resonant, Ace Combat 8 and Transport Fever 3 differs in Germany compared to the global market. By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read Business Swedish Workers Achieve Union Contract at King Unionen and Engineers of Sweden have achieved a union contract signing at Swedish mobile game dev and Microsoft subsidiary King. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read Daily GamesMarket Daily - 30 September 2026: CPC Network, Steam Charts & Changes, Coffee Stain Showcase, Womenize! & more With an attempt to break away from self-regulation in the industry, the EU has made waves today. Also in the news: New personel at Booster Space, weekly Steam charts and a new showcase. By Pascal Wagner • 6 min read (Unsplash, Paws and Prints) Opinion G+ Comment: The EC is the Carrot, the CPC Network is the Stick How does the EU intend to regulate games? Whilst the Commission praised games industry’s self-regulation when it unveiled the EU Kids Act, consumer protection groups in Brussels have launched a new action against the industry. A well-thought-out plan looks rather different, says Stephan Steininger. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read Products Rokaplay and Mipumi Announce A Game About Digging A Hole Together As a multiplayer follow-up of the surprise hit, A Game About Digging A Hole Together will release this year from rokaplay and Mipumi Games. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read The EU Commission building in Brussels (By EmDee - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia) Politics European Consumer Protection Agencies Take Action Game Companies With Ingame Purchases The EU Consumer Protection Cooperation Network is targeting nine game companies with an EU-wide enforcement to bring their ingame currency practices in line with EU regulations. The companies are Activision Blizzard King, Crytek, InnoGames, Mojang, Plarium, PLR, Riot, Supercell and Ubisoft. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read EA Sports FC 27 / Transport Fever 3 / Control Resonant © EA Sports / Urban Games & Paradox / Remedy Entertainment Business G+ Weekly Steam Charts: How Well Do EA Sports FC 27, Control and Transport Fever 3 Resonate? EA Sports FC 27 tops the weekly Steam charts, but it is considerably less popular than its predecessor. Interestingly, however, the popularity of Control Resonant, Ace Combat 8 and Transport Fever 3 differs in Germany compared to the global market. By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read It is still unclear whether the new Star Trek game will also follow the Voyager on its journeys through the Delta Quadrant Development Next Star Trek Game: Jumpgates GameXcite Signs Licensing Agreement with Paramount Games The co-production announced in early September between Jumpgate’s subsidiary gameXcite and Daedalic as publisher will be another Star Trek game. A corresponding licence agreement has now been revealed. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The EU Commission building in Brussels (By EmDee - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia) Politics European Consumer Protection Agencies Take Action Game Companies With Ingame Purchases The EU Consumer Protection Cooperation Network is targeting nine game companies with an EU-wide enforcement to bring their ingame currency practices in line with EU regulations. The companies are Activision Blizzard King, Crytek, InnoGames, Mojang, Plarium, PLR, Riot, Supercell and Ubisoft. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
EA Sports FC 27 / Transport Fever 3 / Control Resonant © EA Sports / Urban Games & Paradox / Remedy Entertainment Business G+ Weekly Steam Charts: How Well Do EA Sports FC 27, Control and Transport Fever 3 Resonate? EA Sports FC 27 tops the weekly Steam charts, but it is considerably less popular than its predecessor. Interestingly, however, the popularity of Control Resonant, Ace Combat 8 and Transport Fever 3 differs in Germany compared to the global market. By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Business Swedish Workers Achieve Union Contract at King Unionen and Engineers of Sweden have achieved a union contract signing at Swedish mobile game dev and Microsoft subsidiary King. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Daily GamesMarket Daily - 30 September 2026: CPC Network, Steam Charts & Changes, Coffee Stain Showcase, Womenize! & more With an attempt to break away from self-regulation in the industry, the EU has made waves today. Also in the news: New personel at Booster Space, weekly Steam charts and a new showcase. By Pascal Wagner • 6 min read
(Unsplash, Paws and Prints) Opinion G+ Comment: The EC is the Carrot, the CPC Network is the Stick How does the EU intend to regulate games? Whilst the Commission praised games industry’s self-regulation when it unveiled the EU Kids Act, consumer protection groups in Brussels have launched a new action against the industry. A well-thought-out plan looks rather different, says Stephan Steininger. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Products Rokaplay and Mipumi Announce A Game About Digging A Hole Together As a multiplayer follow-up of the surprise hit, A Game About Digging A Hole Together will release this year from rokaplay and Mipumi Games. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The EU Commission building in Brussels (By EmDee - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia) Politics European Consumer Protection Agencies Take Action Game Companies With Ingame Purchases The EU Consumer Protection Cooperation Network is targeting nine game companies with an EU-wide enforcement to bring their ingame currency practices in line with EU regulations. The companies are Activision Blizzard King, Crytek, InnoGames, Mojang, Plarium, PLR, Riot, Supercell and Ubisoft. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
EA Sports FC 27 / Transport Fever 3 / Control Resonant © EA Sports / Urban Games & Paradox / Remedy Entertainment Business G+ Weekly Steam Charts: How Well Do EA Sports FC 27, Control and Transport Fever 3 Resonate? EA Sports FC 27 tops the weekly Steam charts, but it is considerably less popular than its predecessor. Interestingly, however, the popularity of Control Resonant, Ace Combat 8 and Transport Fever 3 differs in Germany compared to the global market. By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
It is still unclear whether the new Star Trek game will also follow the Voyager on its journeys through the Delta Quadrant Development Next Star Trek Game: Jumpgates GameXcite Signs Licensing Agreement with Paramount Games The co-production announced in early September between Jumpgate’s subsidiary gameXcite and Daedalic as publisher will be another Star Trek game. A corresponding licence agreement has now been revealed. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read