The FIFAe Finals 2025 © FIFA Esports FIFA Is Committed to Football Esports With eFootball and Rocket League FIFA is continuing its commitment to esports football with multi-year agreements within its FIFAe ecosystem. The FIFAe Finals, featuring Rocket League and eFootball, have been confirmed in partnership with the Saudi Esports Federation for 2025 and 2026. FIFAe, FIFA's digital football, games and esports platform, has confirmed By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Nele Schmidt and Jascha Kruse © Nele Schmidt and Jascha Kruse People Nele Schmidt and Jascha Kruse Join LEZ.SH The Landeszentrum für E-Sport und Digitalisierung Schleswig-Holstein (Schleswig-Holstein State Centre for E-Sports and Digitalisation) has strengthened its media education department. Nele Schmidt will be the new head of the children, youth and media education department, and Jascha Kruse will be the new youth specialist. Nele Schmidt By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Living With The Snow Leopards / La Belle – Die Schöne und die Bombe / Dung Slinger © NowHere Media / LOOKS Filmproduktionen / Bold Beetle Games Business Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Funds Ten Games With a Total of €1.1 Million Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is providing €3.8 million in funding for 25 games, XR and serial format projects. A total of ten game projects will receive funding totalling just under €1.1 million, including those from Torpor Games, Little Bat Games, Windspiel and Windmillhill Games. This was the final New By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Boulder Dash World Championship Qualifiers at the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin © BBG Entertainment Esports Boulder Dash World Championship Qualifiers at the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin On 24 July, Germany's best Boulder Dash players will compete at the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin for a chance to qualify for the World Cup, to be held on 23 August at gamescom in Cologne. Another qualifying round will take place at the GAMM Museum in Rome. On 24 By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Still Wakes the Deep © The Chinese Room, Sumo Business The Chinese Room and Sumo Digital Have Parted Ways The UK studio The Chinese Room is now independent again following a management buyout from Sumo Digital. Following a management buyout, The Chinese Room is once again independent, under the leadership of studio head Ed Daly. The studio was founded in 2007 and acquired by Sumo Group, the parent company By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Game Dev Days Graz Business Game Dev Days Graz Announce Date for Tenth Anniversary The tenth Game Dev Days Graz will take place on 4 October at the Technical University of the Austrian city. This year, the Austrian developer meetup Game Dev Days at Technical University Graz is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Before the full programme, the organisers around TU Graz and newly appointed By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Alabaster Dawn / Aethermancer © Radical Fish Games / Moi Rai Games Products Radical Fish and Moi Rai Showcased Their Games at the Secret Sauce Showcase A total of over 40 indie games were presented at the Secret Sauce Showcase 2025. Two of these were Aethermancer by Moi Rai Games from Hamburg and Alabaster Dawn by Radical Fish Games from Saarbrücken. Two projects from German studios were featured at Offbrand Games' Secret Sauce Showcase 2025. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
MFG Baden-Württemberg and its shareholders (from left to right): SWR Director General Prof. Dr. Kai Gniffke, Minister President Winfried Kretschmann, State Secretary for the Arts Arne Braun and MFG Managing Director Carl Bergengruen © Maximilian Hörhold Business MFG Baden-Württemberg Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary Around 600 guests are celebrating the 30th anniversary of MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg at the Wagenhallen in Stuttgart. Minister President Winfried Kretschmann gave a speech. MFG Baden-Württemberg celebrated its 30th anniversary with a festive evening at the Wagenhallen in Stuttgart. Around 600 guests, including representatives from politics, By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
A Game About Digging A Hole © Rokaplay and Headup Products Rokaplay and Headup Are Bringing A Game About Digging A Hole to Mobile Having sold over a million copies on PC, A Game About Digging A Hole is coming to iOS and Android. This project is a collaboration between DoubleBee, Mipumi, rokaplay and Headup. In addition: Headup has also released Bridge Constructor Studio, developed by ClockStone, on all non-VR platforms. Developer DoubleBee By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© South West Vision Business SimRacing Expo Takes Another Run at the USA SimRacing Expo is planning a spin-off event in the United States in May 2026. An initial attempt to hold the event in the United States in 2025 was cancelled. Instead of Austin, the event will now take place in Charlotte, a city with a passion for motorsport. The choice By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Steam Business Steams New Adult Game Ban Apparently Not Implemented in Germany With Valve bowing to the demands of credit card companies and banks, adult game developers have already begun to scout for ways to circumvent recent bans. Germany’s unique situation meanwhile might have prevented the inplementation of the new rules for now. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
EA Sports FC 25 / Assassin's Creed Shadows / Minecraft © Electronic Arts / Ubisoft / Nintendo, U&I Ent., Sony, Microsoft Business The Best-Selling Physical Games in Europe in the First Half of 2025 In the first half of 2025, no game sold more copies in physical retail in Europe than EA Sports FC 25. This was followed by Assassin's Creed Shadows and Minecraft. However, in Germany and Austria, a Nintendo game topped the charts. EA Sports FC 25 was the best- By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
