Visualisation of Pico Motion Tracker use. © Pico Business Where is XR Heading? By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
© EA Publishing Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe Co-Composed Dragon Age Soundtrack Oscar-winner Hans Zimmer and Grammy-award winner Lorne Balfe have both contributed to the soundtrack of the new Dragon Age game, The Vailguard. The official soundtrack album is being released to coincide with the game's release. Electronic Arts is enlisting the help of some big names to convince gamers By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Big Fan Games is not about triple-A games but about indie implementations of well-known IPs that have a style all their own. © Big Fan Games/Steam/Screenshots Publishing Big Fan Games Seeks Partners for Indie Games Based on Media Brands With Big Fan Games, Devolver Games already presented a label in August that focuses on indie games adaptations of films, comics, TV shows and cult heroes. Now they are intensifying the search for partners. Specifically, Big Fan Games is currently introducing itself as a new Devolver Digital label via a By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Munetaka Aoki as Goro Majima in the new series. © SEGA / Amazon Business Amazon Prime and RGG Studio Drop "Like a Dragon" Live-Action Trailer "Like a Dragon" developer Ryu Ga Gotoku and Amazon have dropped the trailer for the TV series of the same name. The lead role of Kiryu Kazuma will be played by "Kamen Rider" star Ryoma Takeuchi, with Masaharu Take as director and Munetaka Aoki as Goro By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Jukka Saarelainen, Co-founder and CTO at couchplay © LG Electroinics Development German Developer Wins LG's webOS.TV-Hackathon As part of LG webOS, LG Electronics has also announced the winners of this year's webOS TV hackathon. A total of $230,000 in prize money will go to three European studios. Couchplay from Munich came in first. As the top-ranked company, Couchplay received prize money of 100, By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© www.HelenNicolai-BusinessPortraits.de Business Parents Rely On Labels: Germany's Regulatory Body USK Presents Study For its 30 year anniversary, the German Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body USK presents a study among parents, conducted by YouGov. The results see the age labels and the new classification system find massive support with German parents. For its 30 year anniversary, the German Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body USK isn’ By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© GM Business GamesMarkt #465: Gamescom Review, Pico 4 Ultra, Simulation Games The new print edition of GamesMarkt is now available as an epaper. In this issue, we review gamescom with pictures, data and voices, have a look at the new Pico 4 Ultra and at the genre of simulation games. The current issue of GamesMarkt is now available as an epaper. By Team Gamesmarkt • 1 min read
© Team17 Digital Development FusionPlay Realises Viva La Dirt League Game for Team17 Digital FusionPlay is part of an unusual collaboration. The Leipzig studio is working together with the New Zealand YouTube channel and studio Viva La Dirt League on a game for Team17 Digital. The web video production company Viva La Dirt League (VLDL), founded by Rowan Bettjeman, Alan Morrison, and Adam King, By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
REDxBLUE is one of the funded companies. There is currently no official image material available for the funded projects. © RotXBlau Development MDM Funds Two Games and an XR Production At its third meeting for 2024, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung funding committee also considered two games and an XR production. A total of 180,000 Euros will be divided equally among the projects from Leipzig and Dresden. This means that the current round of funding was, at least in the new By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Kalunga, the serial format Mesut Özil: Zu Gast bei Freunden, Flick Shot Rogues © MBB Development Medienboard Funds 13 Games and XR Titles With A Million Euros The current funding round of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg included 1,6 million euros, more than a million of it for games and XR titles. Grand profiteers are Realities.io with 250,000 euros for Puzzling Places 2D and Aldamami Games with 160,000 euros for Bloodletter. The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg has By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The current D&D handbook is topping the franchise sales. © Wizards of the Coast Business 2024 Player's Handbook Becomes Fastest-Selling Dungeons & Dragons Product Ever The recently released rulebook is the fastest selling Dungeons & Dragons product of all time. It had been pre-sold on selected events like gamescom before the official release on 17 September. Wizards of the Coast hasn't released the exact sales numbers, however. The 2024 Player's Handbook, By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
