"Crysis 2" kommt Ende März Tim Pototzki August 16, 2010 – Share this post Ende März 2011 will "Crysis 2" die Messlatte im Actiongenre höher hängen © None The FROG Conference will take place at Belvedere 21 in November (Picture: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien) Development Subotron Launches ‘Playing Art’ Competition for Austrian Developers Developers from Austria have until 30 September to submit ideas based on the Belvedere’s Open Content Collection. A jury will select games from these submissions for exhibition at Belvedere 21 and as entries for the Austrian Impact Game Idea 2026 competition. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read The group of students and coaches at the Immersive Media Days 2026 (Benedikt Gess/HFF) Campus Immersive Media Days 2026 Showcases Nine Projects from Munich Game Students Nine projects from two cooperative study courses held by several Munich universities together, coached by experts: The Immersive Media Days are a great example of cooperation between games learning and games industry. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read Thomas Lehr, Director of Game Engineering at InnoGames Development G+ Why AI Makes Sense in All Areas, But Not For All Tasks Sunrise Village is still online thanks to the use of AI. Thomas Lehr, Director of Game Engineering at InnoGames, talks about the reactions to the Sunrise Village case, when and how the use of AI can be effective and why InnoGames uses AI to drive growth but not for cost savings. By Stephan Steininger • 7 min read Daily GamesMarket Daily – 16. July 26: New Gamescom Exhibitors + Events, Bavaria, Marion Plank, GTA VI forecast, Leyline It’s not just gamescom that’s on everyone’s mind; the release of the year is too: Newzoo has now, for the first time, used pre-order figures to date to estimate how GTA VI will perform at launch. Very strongly, of course. There’s also plenty of news from Bavaria and Hamburg. By Stephan Steininger • 6 min read Publishing Newzoo: GTA VI Grosses $260 Million in Its First Week of Pre-Orders GTA VI is set to be a huge hit. But just how big? Based on their data from the first week of pre-orders, market analysts at Newzoo have ventured a forecast putting the launch week’s sales in the single-digit billion range. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read Guildrun © Leyline Creations Products Leyline Creations Announces Strategy Game Guildrun Munich-based Leyline Creations has announced its debut game, Guildrun. The team is collaborating with a dedicated community to take the autobattler genre in a new direction. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read Dr Fabian Mehring, Minister for Digital Affairs (Picture: Anne Hufnagl) Almost 900K in Funding For 16 Games From Bavaria A total of 871,000 euros in funding was approved at the latest funding allocation meeting of the FFF Bayern. Digital Minister Mehring attributes the positive development in the region to the consistent regional development policy, which also includes support for the games industry. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read gamescom Sega Announces Its gamescom 2026 Line-Up Sega has announced its presence at gamescom 2026, where visitors will be able to play the publisher's biggest upcoming titles. These include Alien: Isolation 2, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, Stranger Than Heaven, Persona 4 Revival and Total War: Warhammer 40,000, among others. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read gamescom Gamescom Dev Talk Review: When You Wishlist Upon a Star In our round-up of this week’s “Dev Talk” at gamescom dev, we look back at an analysis of what wishlists reveal about a game’s prospects. Gregory Weller from Generation Media presents data from a study on wishlists and offers insights to help put the results into context. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
The FROG Conference will take place at Belvedere 21 in November (Picture: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien) Development Subotron Launches ‘Playing Art’ Competition for Austrian Developers Developers from Austria have until 30 September to submit ideas based on the Belvedere’s Open Content Collection. A jury will select games from these submissions for exhibition at Belvedere 21 and as entries for the Austrian Impact Game Idea 2026 competition. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The group of students and coaches at the Immersive Media Days 2026 (Benedikt Gess/HFF) Campus Immersive Media Days 2026 Showcases Nine Projects from Munich Game Students Nine projects from two cooperative study courses held by several Munich universities together, coached by experts: The Immersive Media Days are a great example of cooperation between games learning and games industry. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Thomas Lehr, Director of Game Engineering at InnoGames Development G+ Why AI Makes Sense in All Areas, But Not For All Tasks Sunrise Village is still online thanks to the use of AI. Thomas Lehr, Director of Game Engineering at InnoGames, talks about the reactions to the Sunrise Village case, when and how the use of AI can be effective and why InnoGames uses AI to drive growth but not for cost savings. By Stephan Steininger • 7 min read
Daily GamesMarket Daily – 16. July 26: New Gamescom Exhibitors + Events, Bavaria, Marion Plank, GTA VI forecast, Leyline It’s not just gamescom that’s on everyone’s mind; the release of the year is too: Newzoo has now, for the first time, used pre-order figures to date to estimate how GTA VI will perform at launch. Very strongly, of course. There’s also plenty of news from Bavaria and Hamburg. By Stephan Steininger • 6 min read
Publishing Newzoo: GTA VI Grosses $260 Million in Its First Week of Pre-Orders GTA VI is set to be a huge hit. But just how big? Based on their data from the first week of pre-orders, market analysts at Newzoo have ventured a forecast putting the launch week’s sales in the single-digit billion range. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Guildrun © Leyline Creations Products Leyline Creations Announces Strategy Game Guildrun Munich-based Leyline Creations has announced its debut game, Guildrun. The team is collaborating with a dedicated community to take the autobattler genre in a new direction. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Dr Fabian Mehring, Minister for Digital Affairs (Picture: Anne Hufnagl) Almost 900K in Funding For 16 Games From Bavaria A total of 871,000 euros in funding was approved at the latest funding allocation meeting of the FFF Bayern. Digital Minister Mehring attributes the positive development in the region to the consistent regional development policy, which also includes support for the games industry. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
gamescom Sega Announces Its gamescom 2026 Line-Up Sega has announced its presence at gamescom 2026, where visitors will be able to play the publisher's biggest upcoming titles. These include Alien: Isolation 2, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, Stranger Than Heaven, Persona 4 Revival and Total War: Warhammer 40,000, among others. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
gamescom Gamescom Dev Talk Review: When You Wishlist Upon a Star In our round-up of this week’s “Dev Talk” at gamescom dev, we look back at an analysis of what wishlists reveal about a game’s prospects. Gregory Weller from Generation Media presents data from a study on wishlists and offers insights to help put the results into context. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read