Brent Blazek, Merge Mansion Growth Lead at Metacore © Metacore, Blazek Business Metacore Appoints New Merge Mansion Growth Lead Brent Blazek Metacore targets growth opportunities in casual and Merge2 genres. The mobile games company has appointed Brent Blazek as its new Growth Lead to drive the growth of its four-year-old game Merge Mansion. In 2024, Metacore's Merge Mansion reached two milestones: over 55 million downloads and over $500 million By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© EA Development Extensive Community Collaboration for Next Battlefield Electronic Arts' Battlefield studios are basing the next Battlefield game on the biggest community collaboration in the franchise's history. This is probably the publisher's way of trying to avoid another launch debacle like Battlefield 2042 in November 2021. Electronic Arts has announced the "most By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II © Plaion Products Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Plaion is about to launch one of its biggest releases ever: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. The action role-playing game is on over a million wishlists on Steam alone. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II continues and concludes the story of Henry of Skalitz (Heinrich in German), a blacksmith's son from By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Paul Schnepf and Jonas Tyroller have won the 2023 German Developer Award in the Best Casual Game category for Thronefall. © Beatrice Thoma for the 2023 Game Developer Award Business Thronefall Sells Over One Million Copies Berlin-based indie studio Grizzly Games is celebrating over one million copies of Thronefall sold by releasing a final content update to mark the milestone. The two-person team will now focus on a new game. Thronefall, developed by Berlin-based Grizzly Games, has sold over one million copies. It is available for By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Tim Krause-Murroni © Tim Krause Business Tim Krause-Murroni Joins 2nd Wave After more than five years with Webedia’s artist management team, Tim Krause-Murroni has joined 2nd Wave as Director of Operations. He assumed his new role on 1 February, where he will support agency founder and CEO Boris Lehfeld in managing day-to-day operations. With his extensive experience in artist management By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Grammy Awards / Winifred Phillips © Recording Academy / Winifred Phillips (official website) Business Winifred Phillips Wins Grammy for Best Video Game Soundtrack Winifred Phillips has won the award for Best Score for Video Games and Other Interactive Media at the 2025 Grammy Awards. This is the third time the award has been presented. At the 2025 Grammy Awards, the Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media category was awarded By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Jürgen Barke and Elena Yorgova-Ramanauskas, heads of the Ministry of Economics, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy, are responsible for games funding in Saarland. © Oliver Dietze Business New Games Funding Programme to Launch with Increased Budget in Q1 2025 After a change in responsibility, games funding in Saarland remained largely quiet throughout 2024. Now, according to information from GamesMarkt, a new funding programme is set to launch soon, with €300,000 allocated for project funding, the Game Award Saar, and event and location marketing. The background to this development By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
MultiVersus © Warner Bros. Games Publishing MultiVersus to Be Shut Down After One Year in Live Service Warner Bros. Games will shut down MultiVersus after the end of Season 5 on 30 May 2025. This will be the second time the 2D fighting game from Player First Games will go offline. MultiVersus, a fighting game with a roster of popular characters from various Warner Bros. Discovery franchises, By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Elisabeth Secker, Managing Director USK / Nandita Wegehaupt, Managing Director Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur © Die Hoffotografen / Die Hoffotografen Business Fighting Extremism With Games: USK and Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur at Safer Internet Day 2025 The USK and the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur are planning an event for Safer Internet Day 2025. Together they are organising the digital parents' evening "Games against Extremism" to show how games can educate. On 11 February 2025, a network of partners will work together to improve online By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Idun - Frontline Survival © Idun Interactive / Surefire.Games Products Idun - Frontline Survival In Idun - Frontline Survival, the first game from Idun Interactive, massive waves of enemies will be fought. The game brings a new dynamic to the tower defense genre. Idun - Frontline Survival is a real-time strategy game where players can move turrets (and heroes) around at will, which sets By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Geoff van den Ouden & Martine Spaans (BGPI), Christel van Grinsven & JP van Seventer (DGG) © Benelux Games Promotional Initiative Business Dutch Dev Event Indigo to Continue in 2025 Despite Dutch Games Garden's End With a new location and a new organiser, the major Dutch games event Indigo will continue in 2025, thanks to a joint effort by the Dutch Games Association (DGA), the city of Rotterdam, and the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF). Following the announcement in September that the Dutch Games Garden—an By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
More than ten million people played Forza Horizon 5 on PC and Xbox in its launch week. It was the biggest Xbox launch. The game was released on 9 November 2021. © Xbox Game Studios Publishing Xbox Takes Forza Horizon 5 to PlayStation 5 Xbox is bringing another PC and Xbox exclusive to PlayStation 5, and this time it's a real heavyweight. Forza Horizon 5 will be released on Sony's console in spring 2025. With more than 40 million players on PC and Xbox, one of the most successful and By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
