Menace / Super Fantasy Kingdom © Overhype Studios / Super Fantasy Games / Hooded Horse Publishing Menace Moved to Late 2025, Super Fantasy Kingdom Gets Bigger Overhype Studios and Hooded Horse will release Menace, the highly anticipated sci-fi successor to Battle Brothers, in late 2025. Super Fantasy Kingdom is also preparing for its Early Access launch with undead forces. Overhype Studios from Hamburg and publisher Hooded Horse have announced that Menace will not be released this By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Content creators Luarakata, Ditomido and, Vuipecula. © SK Gaming Business "Bisalina Speedruns Powered by REWE" Raises Almost 12,000 Euros for Charity The Bisalina and SK Gaming charity event "Bisalina Speedruns powered by REWE", which took place at the end of November in Cologne, raised almost 12,000 Euros for charity. The money will be donated to Unicef Germany and SOS Children's Villages worldwide. On 30 November, the By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Bavarias Digital Minister Fabian Mehring © Robert Fischer/StMD Business Bavaria Provided Over €6 Million in Funding for Games and XR in 2024 Bavaria's Digital Minister is using the Advent season to reflect on his ministry's achievements during the "Year of Games" – an initiative that has proven remarkably impactful. By 2024, Bavaria will have invested over 6 million Euros in the games and XR sectors, with more By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur People Çiğdem Uzunoğlu to Lead Grimme Institute as New Director Starting January The renowned Grimme Institute is set to gain valuable gaming expertise at the start of the new year. After a thorough selection process, the institute's shareholders have appointed Çiğdem Uzunoğlu as the new director and managing director. Uzunoğlu most recently served as the head of the Digital Game By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© b.ReX Business Inklu Game by b.ReX wins 'The Creative Länd Chällenge 2024' Competition The Inklu Game app by b.ReX from Stuttgart has won the games category of 'The Creative Länd Chällenge 2024' competition. The exhibition at the Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart will showcase the award-winning works of Baden-Württemberg's creatives until 18 December. The twelve winners of the By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© FFF Business FFF Bavaria Funds Seven XR Projects With €300,000 The FFF allocation committee for Bavarian Extended Realities funding met this week and decided to support two productions and the development of five prototypes with a total of €300,000. The various XR experiences being funded cover the fields of entertainment, art and culture, social participation and awareness raising for By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Dennis Korf / Nai Chang © Korf / Kay Herschelmann Business Dennis Korf to Become New Managing Director of Wooga Dennis Korf will take over as Managing Director of Wooga from January 2025. He will succeed Nai Chang in this role. Under Chang's leadership, the Berlin-based games company broke the billion-dollar revenue mark last year with June's Journey. Wooga will have a new Managing Director from By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Behind the Gaming Zone: The BXDXO Team. © BXDXO Business Gaming Zone at Comic Con Stuttgart Builds on Last Year's Success The Gaming Zone at CCON | Comic Con Stuttgart 2024, organised once again by BXDXO, was once again a magnet for visitors. Compared to the premiere, the exhibition area grew by 20 per cent. Around 48,000 people attended CCON | Comic Con Stuttgart 2024 this year - about the same as By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Imago/Westend61 Business OMG Fuse and inStreamly Form Strategic Partnership OMG Fuse has partnered with inStreamly to offer clients the ability to deliver advertising messages through nearly 11,000 micro-streams on platforms like Twitch and YouTube, precisely targeting specific audiences. This new offering is marketed under the name "NeverNotNew powered by inStreamly". The marketing agency OMG Fuse, part By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Kicking Brass © Stepheight Business MDM Funds Kicking Brass With €100,000 In its fourth and final meeting of the year, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM, Central German Media Funding) awarded a total of €3,953,000.00 to 34 projects on 4 December. Among them is a game project. Kicking Brass from Stepheight Studio (Sam Flentje, Peter Dunn, Oskar Kraska McKone) is By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© SIE Publishing Sony Interactive Entertainment Makes Düsseldorf's Rheinturm Playable As part of the ongoing PlayStation campaign, selected city landmarks are being transformed under the motto 'Play Has No Limits'. In Düsseldorf, this will be the Rheinturm. As darkness falls on 6 December, Sony Interactive Entertainment will transform Düsseldorf's Rhine Tower (Rheinturm) into a giant game, By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Tobias Stolz-Zwilling, Global Public Relations Manager at Warhorse Studios © Warhorse Publishing Kingdom Come Deliverance II to Be Released Slightly Earlier February 2025 will see the release of many gaming highlights. Moving Kingdom Come Deliverance II (Warhorse Studios and Plaion) up a week will increase the window between releases slightly. The packed month of February 2025 will be a little more spread out. Kingdom Come Deliverance II from Warhorse Studios and By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
