Ampere Analysis: $1.4bn Was Spent on Remakes and Remasters in 2024 & 2025; Ampere Analysis Business Ampere Analysis: $1.4b Was Spent on Remakes and Remasters in 2024 & 2025 Between 2024 and 2025, gamers spent $1.4 billion on remakes and remasters. Remakes generated higher revenue and engagement. These are the findings of new research by Ampere Analysis. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Business Power of Play: South Africa As part of the Power of Play survey, industry associations also took a close look at the participating countries. GamesMarkt summarizes the results. This time: South Africa. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim; Rockbee Team & Polden Publishing Products Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim The two Majesty games still have many fans, including those at Rockbee Team. They are reviving the distinctive gameplay formula featuring indirect control in Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim. By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Business “It Happens on PS5”: Sony Starts New Global Marketing Campaign Five years of adventures on PlayStation 5: With the "It Happens on PS5" campaign, Sony rolls out ads about wild happenings in games across 20 markets, including local events like UFO landings in Germany. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Wiebke Wiesner and State Secretary for the Arts Arne Braun (MFG). People Wiebke Wiesner Becomes New MD of MFG Baden-Württemberg Wiebke Wiesner will become the new managing director of Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (MFG). She will succeed Carl Bergengruen on July 1, 2026. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
NRW Minister Liminski will attend the Bisalina Speedruns (NRW Staatskanzlei) Business Bisalina Speedruns 2025 Will Be Bigger in Every Respect For this year's Bisalina Speedruns, NRW's media minister Nathanael Liminski is set to appear. More than 120 B2B guests have also announced their attendance. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
The awards ceremony will take place on 2 December 2025 at the Gürzenich in Cologne. Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2025, Games.NRW Business Deutscher Entwicklerpreis Nominates the Best Games of 2025 *Complete List* The list of nominees for the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2025 (German Developer Award) is now complete, with the nominations for the main category - Best German Game - having been announced today. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Horses of Hoofprint Bay (left; Thogli Studios) and It's Always Happy at Chubby's (Pixel Maniacs) have been announced recently. Products Cozy or Spooky? Two Bavarian Game Announcements Have it All Two Bavarian game studios, Thogli Games from Fürstenfeldbruck and Pixel Maniacs from Nuremberg, have announced their new game projects around Halloween: A horse game homage, including horse game expert Alice Ruppert, and a horror culinary quest respectively. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Michael Metzger, Managing Partner at Drake Star (US/GER); Drake Star, Metzger Business Michael Metzger (Drake Star) on Europe as a Gaming Location How do industry executives rate Europe's position in the global market? We spoke to Michael Metzger, Managing Partner at Drake Star, to find out. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Menace (for spoiler reasons, this screenshot is not from the new trailer.); Hooded Horse and Overhype Studios Products Overhype Partners With Syama Pedersen and Hoplite VFX to Give Menace a Cinematic Treatment Hooded Horse and Overhype Studios have partnered with Syama Pedersen and Hoplite VFX to create a cinematic trailer for Menace. This marks the first time the titular enemy has been shown in action since the original announcement. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Pan-European Virtual Worlds Association Founded The private public partnership association VWA has been founded with support from Horizon Europe to bring extended reality in the EU forward. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The winning project on the expert level: Hydropolis by Maximilian. Campus Research Ministry Awards Future Energy Ideas In Minecraft The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space has awarded 14 young Minecraft builders for their future visions around sustainability and energy production in this year’s Science Year. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
