© Pixabay/Pexels Products Trollgames and Thoughtfish Receive Federal Funding The number of approved funding applications and thus the total amount of federal funding for games in 2025 continues to rise. Around €400,000 will go to Trollgames and Thoughtfish. This means that a total of 14 applications or partial applications from 2025 have been successful so far. The Berlin By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Broken Arrow © Slitherine Products Broken Arrow This is by far the biggest release yet from UK-based strategy games publisher Slitherine: Broken Arrow, from Steel Balalaika. This real-time modern warfare tactics game has already sold over 150,000 copies during the Advanced Access period. Slitherine's success with Broken Arrow was evident from the outset, with By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
© Lina Jakobi & Stephan Wieser/Level Up Business Level Up Salzburg has Grown and Plans for 2026 At the end of June, the Level Up Festival attracted around 11,000 visitors to Salzburg with its proven mix of AAA and indie games, cosplay and esports. The event will continue in 2026. 11,000 visitors, around 10 percent more than last year, came to the exhibition centre in By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Group photo of the initiators of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Spielwissenschaft (German Society for Game Science) © DGSW Campus German Scholars Launch Deutsche Gesellschaft für Spielwissenschaft This is an important step for game sciences in Germany. Representatives from research and university professors have institutionalised the discipline with the founding of the German Society for Game Sciences (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Spielwissenschaft e.V.), with Stephan Jacob and Jens Junge as chairmen. This is a step that has By Stephan Steininger • 3 min read
Change in management at Computec Media: Rainer Rosenbusch to take over as CEO from Christian Müller on 30 June © Computec People Rainer Rosenbusch Succeeds Christian Müller as Computec CEO Computec Media is restructuring its management team in the middle of the year: CEO Christian Müller is leaving the company at his own request, and Co-Managing Director Rainer Rosenbusch will become the new CEO. Thilo Bayer, Jens-Ole Quiel, Daniel Waadt and Markus Wollny will form the new Management Board. Change By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Marcel Jung, Director Marketing & Communications, Central Europe @ Bethesda / Freyja Melhorn, Director Marketing Communications, BXDXO / Stefan Dettmering, Managing Director, BXDXO © BXDXO Business BXDXO Wins Twice at the German Brand Award 2025 BXDXO, a marketing service provider specialising in the games industry, received two awards at the German Brand Award 2025 in Berlin: "Best of Best" and "Gold" in two categories. BXDXO, the Munich-based marketing service provider specialising in the games industry, won two awards at the German By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Zockrates Laboratories Products Zockrates Laboratories Releases Ruffy and the Riverside German indie studio Zockrates Laboratories from Nuremberg and US publisher Phiphen Games have released Ruffy and the Riverside. This hand-drawn 3D platformer took over seven years to develop. The project has also received multiple grants. The hand-drawn 3D platformer Ruffy and the Riverside is launched on PC (Steam and Epic By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Dorothee Erpenstein, Managing Director FFF Bayern © FFF Bayern Products Bavaria is Funding XR Projects with €390,000 At the latest FFF Bavaria funding meeting for XR, a total of seven applications were approved. The projects receiving support demonstrate why it makes sense to promote XR as a separate category, as it is neither film nor gaming. Five production grants and two project development grants – that is the By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant © Deck13 Spotlight and Umami Tiger Products Expansion of Chained Echoes Is Planned for Early August 2025 Deck13 Spotlight and Umami Tiger, the newly founded studio of Matthias Linda, will release Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant on 7 August 2025 for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant offers players a new land to explore, over 40 new By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Blindflug Studios Products Blindflug Studios' Ground of Aces Launches in Early Access in July Swiss-Polish indie developer Blindflug Studios has announced the release date for its base-building strategy game, Ground of Aces. The game will be available on PC and Mac via Early Access on 10 July 2025. In Ground of Aces, players take command of an airbase during World War II. They must By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Susanna Pollack, President Games 4 Change © Games For Change Products German Teams Win Three Games For Change Awards 2025 The Games for Change Awards 2025 were a resounding success – both for the cause and for German teams, who impressed in three categories. Game of the Year went to Indika, developed by Odd Meter and published by 11 Bit Studios. The game Indika also won the Narrative category, beating out By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Streamlabs Business Logitech's Streamlabs Connects Brand Partner and Streamer for Sponsorships With the launch of Streamlabs Sponsorships, Logitech subsidiary Streamlabs is positioning itself as a creator marketing broker. At least initially, 100 percent of earnings will go to the creators. Whether the 0% share for Streamlabs will remain permanent is, of course, open to question. Nevertheless, the offer put together by By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
