Forge of the Fae © Datadyne / Deck13 Spotlight Products Deck13 Spotlight Signs Forge of the Fae Deck13 Spotlight has announced that the JRPG Forge of the Fae will be joining its publishing portfolio. Developed by Datadyne, the game is a fitting addition to the company's portfolio, which includes CrossCode and Chained Echoes. Following the success of CrossCode and Chained Echoes, Deck13 Spotlight, the indie By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Kalypso Media Unveils Its gamescom 2025 Line-Up © Kalypso Media Business Kalypso Media Unveils Its gamescom 2025 Line-Up Recently announced and soon to be presented at gamescom 2025: Kalypso Media will be showcasing Sudden Strike 5 (Kite Games) as well as Disciples: Domination (Artefacts Studio), and will reveal another title in Cologne. Kalypso Media has announced its line-up for this year's gamescom. In the entertainment By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Jasmin Oestreicher, CEO Instinct3 & Co-CEO and Co-Founder Sidekick Publishing / Melvin Frank, Co-CEO & Co-Founder Sidekick Publishing © SAVO Media - Photography & Filming Business Instinct3 Launches Full-Service Game Publisher Sidekick Berlin-based creative agency Instinct3 has announced the launch of Sidekick Publishing, a new full-service publisher for indie and A to AA studios. The first title to be published under the Sidekick banner is Deadly Days: Roadtrip, developed by Pixelsplit and set to be showcased at gamescom. Instinct3 has By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Nintendo Products Donkey Kong is Coming, Mario is Driving Away The smaller installed base of the Switch 2 at launch leads to a curious picture in the charts. Apparently, so many console buyers purchased Mario Kart World on Day One that the title dropped out of the top 20. It was replaced by Donkey Kong. The curious change in the By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Seafarer: The Ship Sim © astragon Entertainment Products Seafarer: The Ship Sim Sets Sail on Early Access in October Originally, astragon Entertainment and astragon Development had planned to release Seafarer: The Ship Sim this summer, but the game will now be given a little more development time before its Early Access launch. astragon Entertainment and astragon Development have announced the Early Access release date for their ship simulation game, By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Torsten Oppermann (1SP) and Angelos Senis (Fijak; from left) © 1SP Business 1SP Agency Continues to Grow and Acquires Fijak 1SP Agency is expanding: The agency group has acquired Fijak, a full-service agency specialising in design, production, logistics and retail activation. The acquisition primarily strengthens 1SP's sales promotion and retail marketing. This is already the second acquisition this year to strengthen the Retail Marketing division: the Hamburg- By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Xsolla Business Xsolla Expands Platform Support for Cross-Platform Direct-to-Consumer Commerce Xsolla is expanding the capabilities of its platform support with the latest SDKs for the Windows Store and the Epic Games Store, a new strategic partnership with Pley and the launch of the Xsolla Discord Bot. Xsolla has announced an expansion of its platform support capabilities. Thanks to the latest By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Pexels/Johannes Plenio/Christian Richert/Hert Niks Business German Cities Miss Out on the Top 10 European Gaming Hubs For the first time, Europe's gaming umbrella organisations have published a list of the top 20 game development locations in their report. While the UK has five cities in the top 10, German cities only appear from eleventh place onwards. Munich is not in the top 20, nor By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Manticore Products Frédéric Descamps: "Players Do Not Care About Industry Monikers" At the end of September, Manticore will launch its new game Out of Time. An unusual but logical step for the creators of the Core platform, as Manticore co-founder and CEO Frédéric Descamps reveals in an interview. For many years, Manticore Core has been successfully building a platform, a By Stephan Steininger • 3 min read
Hester Woodliffe, representative of WB Games and Chairwoman of VGE, and Hendrik Lesser, rcp and President of EGDF © EGDF/VGE Business Europe's Games Industry 2023: More Studios, More Employees, Less Revenue The two European gaming umbrella organisations, Video Games Europe (VGE) and the European Games Developer Federation (EGDF), have published their new report shortly before gamescom. It includes data from 22 European countries for the year 2023, with some surprising results. The fact that the report only presents figures from 2023 By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
German games market in the first half of 2025 © game - The German Games Industry Association Business German Games Market Back on Track for Growth During the gamescom pre-show press conference, the game association also released initial data on the development of the German games market in the first half of 2025. With an increase of 4 percent, the market continued to grow. The German games market is back on track for growth. This By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Koelnmesse GmbH/Marvin Ruppert Business Gamescom 2025 Breaks First Records Even Before Opening One week before Opening Night Live, Koelnmesse and game provided an update on the figures and programme for gamescom at the traditional pre-show press conference. Initial records were announced for the number of country pavilions and the exhibition space. One week before the start of the show, gamescom is By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
