© GM Products Microsoft Continues to Outpace Everyone on PlayStation By Stephan Steininger • 3 min read
© Nintendo Business Continuing the Successful Concept in Nintendo's Way By Marcel Kleffmann • 11 min read
© JvM Nerd Products Jung von Matt Nerd and got2b Bring New York's Christopher Street to Roblox To celebrate Pride Month, Jung von Matt Nerd created a Roblox experience for the Henkel brand got2b. As a homage to the origins of the annual Pride marches, the agency transports players back to Christopher Street in New York in 1969. Together with Jung von Matt Nerd (JvM Nerd), got2b By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Nintendo Products Day-One Releases and Upcoming Games for Nintendo Switch 2 The Nintendo Switch 2 is available from today, 5 June 2025. But which first- and third-party games will be available, and which will be released in the coming months? Although Nintendo itself does not have many games available for the Switch 2 launch, there is strong support for the new By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Rayan Karaky, Managing Director, EMEA & Southeast Asia at Amazon Ads / Mike McCabe, Chief Operating Officer, at the Esports World Cup Foundation © Esports World Cup Foundation and Amazon Ads Esports Esports World Cup Foundation and Amazon Announce Strategic Collaboration Following their collaboration at the inaugural Esports World Cup (EWC) in 2024, the Esports World Cup Foundation and Amazon Ads are set to expand their partnership. Content from the EWC will be delivered via Twitch, Prime Video, Alexa and Wondery. The Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) has announced a three-year By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo © CD Projekt Red / Epic Games Business The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo, Epic Games Store Plans, and More Unreal Engine 5.6 was released at the State of Unreal 2025 event, where CD Projekt Red and Epic Games showcased an impressive tech demo of The Witcher 4. Plans for the Epic Games Store were also refined further. The State of Unreal event began with a technical demo from By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
BPJ - The Musical (left) and Art of Fauna © gm Products Apple Honours Solo Developers from Germany, Austria and Canada as Winners As part of WWDC25, Apple has revealed the finalists and winners of this year's Apple Design Awards. Among them are Philipp Stollenmayer from Germany and Klemens Strasser from Austria, as well as LocalThunk from Canada. Philipp Stollenmayer from Germany has won the Apple Desgn Award in the Innovation By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
King of Blood © Sad Socket, Hooded Horse, Instinct3 Products 9 Kings More than 250,000 units of 9 Kings were sold in the first week of Early Access. This was a huge success for Brazilian developer Sad Socket and the game's publisher, Hooded Horse. It is also the most successful game launch to date for co-publisher Instinct3, which handles By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Let Them Trade © ByteRockers' Games Products Spaceflower and ByteRockers' Launch Let Them Trade in July Let Them Trade, the debut project from Spaceflower and published by ByteRockers' Games, will be released on PC at the end of July. A demo will be available on Steam Next Fest beforehand. The city-building game Let Them Trade will be released for PC on 24 July 2025, announced By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Good Evil Products the Good Evil Brings Rascal's Escape to iOS and Android While the children's jury of the Goldener Spatz festival in Gera and Erfurt is deciding whether the nominated Rascal's Escape by the Good Evil will receive an award, the Cologne-based studio has also launched the title for iOS and Android – with an unusual approach to monetisation. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Christopher Flato, President of ESBD © ESBD Business ESBD also Optimistic After Bär's Speech Representatives of the esports association ESBD were among the 500 guests at the game Summer Reception. They are also optimistic after Dorothee Bär's speech. The future of games funding was certainly the most important topic for most of the 500 or so guests at the game sommer reception. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Parliamentary State Secretary Matthias Hauer, Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister for Research, Technology and Space, and game Managing Directir Felix Falk with cosplayer © Franziska Krug for game Business Bär Promises First Results in Games Policy of New Government at Gamescom At the games association's summer party, guest speaker Dorothee Bär promised concrete results from the new German government's games policy for gamescom. The association welcomes the appearance of the Research Minister, who was also joined by State Secretary Matthias Hauer. Following her impressive appearance at the By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
