MindsEye © IOI Partners, Build A Rocket Boy Publishing IO Interactive Enters the World of Publishing and Signs Deal With Build a Rocket Boy IO Interactive has launched its third-party publishing division, IOI Partners. Its first worldwide deal is already a major one, with Leslie Benzies' Build A Rocket Boy to publish and distribute MindsEye. The game is a cinematic AAA story-driven action-adventure thriller. With Hitman 3 respectively Hitman: World of Assassination, Denmark& By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
IO Interactive is best known for Hitman. © IO Interactive Business Why IO Interactive Is Teaming up With Build a Rocket Boy By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media / Felix Falk, Managing Director of game - The German Games Industry Association / Nandita Wegehaupt, Managing Director of the Foundation for Digital Games Culture © J. Konrad Schmidt / Dirk Mathesius / Die Hoffotografen Business New German-wide Games Funding Grant For New Studios The Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, has announced a nationwide games start-up grant called "Press Start: Games Founding Grant" or "Press Start: Gründungsstipendium Games" in German. It is an 18-month programme with a grant, workshops and coaching. The application phase will By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Screenshots from the reel on Instagram © lifeatking Business King Opens New Office in Berlin A new office on the banks of the Spree: King has opened an office in Berlin. The mobile games company behind the Candy Crush franchise has been operating in the German capital for ten years. King opened a new office in Berlin last month, about ten years after opening its By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
The developers and the service providers of AudioCreatures on the recording day. © Markus Zierhofer (CineTronic Music) Development Second Live Score Berlin Records Orchestral Game Music For the second time, AudioCreatures has brought game studios and the Film Orchestra Babelsberg together to record live versions of the studios' game soundtracks. Part this year were Ghostwhale Games, Hidden Titan, Chimera Entertainment and Spaceflower, but also studios from USA and Brazil. Last Friday, the second edition of By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Abylight Products Citadelum The Caesar series by Impressions Games and Sierra Entertainment, and later by Tilted Mill Entertainment and Activision, which was particularly popular in Germany, ended in 2006 with Caesar 4. Since then, there have been only a few city-building games set in ancient Rome, a gap that Abylight Barcelona wants to By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© devcom Development Light at the End of the Tunnel – but Still Quite Far Away Prof Dr Malte Behrmann has been attending industry events around the world for many years. He is a highly active political and industry figure. For GamesMarkt, he summarises his personal experience of this year’s devcom. The text first appeared in issue 465 of GamesMarkt. Devcom 24 were two rich By Team Gamesmarkt • 5 min read
© SIE Events PlayStation The Concert - World Tour 2025-2026 Starts in Europe Sony Interactive Entertainment will launch PlayStation The Concert - World Tour 2025-2026 in Europe in April next year. The global concert series will feature music from God of War, The Last of Us, Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon. PlayStation, aka Sony Interactive Entertainment, is teaming up with RoadCo Entertainment and By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Headup Development Screw Drivers by Headup and Creactstudios Reaches 500,000 Users The Early Access title Screw Drivers by Creactstudios and Headup, both from Germany, has reached the milestone of 500,000 players. The inexpensive title has very positive user ratings as well. Headup, the German publisher from Düren, has reported a milestone: Screw Drivers from Creactstudios in Oberkirch, Baden-Württemberg, has reached By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© EVSH Esports Esports State Championships Schleswig-Holstein Held in Neumünster This saturday, the Championship of the 'Esports State' Schleswig-Holstein commence in Neumünster. The event is free to visit and will be streamed via Twitch. On Saturday, 19 October 2024, the E-Sport State Championships of the Schleswig-Holstein E-Sport Association (EVSH) will take place in the Holstenhallen. Teams will play By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Slovak Game Developers Association Business 69 Games Companies in Slovakia Generated €70m in 2023 In 2023, the Slovak games industry experienced a decline for the first time. The total turnover decreased from €77.1m in 2022 to €70m. This year it is expected to reach €70.3m. According to the Slovak Game Developers Association, the local industry was not significantly affected by layoffs and By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
The founding foursome: Johannes Hauffe, Christian Sandkämper, Kai Bornemann and Julian Voss were brought together by their studies and a passion for gaming. © Sven Kloss/OVGU Business Just2D Interactive and Drova - Forsaken Kin: How the Dream Project Came to Be By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
