David Stelzer, President of Xsolla © Xsolla Business Xsolla President David Stelzer on Current Games Industry Trends, Monetisation Changes and Emerging Markets By Marcel Kleffmann • 6 min read
© Xsolla Business Xsolla: Which Markets Are "Actively Shaping the Future of the Industry"? According to David Stelzer, President of Xsolla, the Global South is not only a promising emerging region, but also a major driver of global gaming growth. GamesMarkt: As a provider of payment solutions (and much more), Xsolla has a unique perspective on the gaming industry. Which gaming market is particularly By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Project Manager Karina Iglhaut at Bayern Design introduces Robin Rottmann and Anja Krendlinger at the mcbw Morning Session. © Pascal Wagner Business Games/Bavaria Presents Games Industry at MCBW At the yearly design week expo throughout Munich, Games/Bavaria has reached out for different creative industries to connect with the game development space in Bavaria. This year's Munich Creative Business Week (mcbw), the yearly event for the creative industries organised by Bayern Design, is aligned around the By Team Gamesmarkt • 1 min read
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
Rockfish Games CEO and Co-Founder, Michael Schade © Gero Goerlich, 39pix.com Business Rockfish Launches Final Everspace 2 Expansion and Emphasises Importance of Federal Funding Hamburg-based Rockfish Games is bringing the Everspace 2 saga to a close with the second DLC, Wrath of the Ancients. At the same time, CEO and co-founder Michael Schade emphasised the importance of federal funding for games for independent companies like Rockfish and for the entire German games industry. Rockfish By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 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
Niedersachsen Booth in the Business Area at gamescom © Koelnmesse GmbH, Uwe Weiser Business Niedersachsen Booth in the Business Area at gamescom 2025 The business area of this year's gamescom will once again feature a joint stand for the German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), and Nordmedia is seeking interested exhibitors. Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) will once again have a stand in the Business Area at gamescom 2025. With the support of By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Monster Hunter Wilds © Capcom Business Capcom Earns Record Profits for Eighth Year in a Row Capcom's business is monstrously successful. The Japanese company posted record results in almost all areas. In the last financial year, 51.87 million games were sold. The outlook is even more positive. During the 2024–25 fiscal year (April 2024 to March 2025), Capcom's core digital By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 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
Grand Finale of Schleswig-Holstein's 2024 Esports Championships © Sebastian Haas Esports Grand Finale of Schleswig-Holstein's 2025 Esports Championships With Growing Entertainment Area From 31 May to 1 June, the Holstenhallen Neumünster will host the grand finale of the 2025 E-Sports State Championships in Schleswig-Holstein. The supporting programme outside the esports matches has also grown significantly. The Schleswig-Holstein Regional E-Sports Championships are approaching their season's climax, and everything is set to By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 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
