VGFB's General Manager David Verbruggen © Video Games Federation Belgium Business Belgian Games Market Grows to 708 Million Euros EA Sports FC 24 is the best-selling game and the PS5 the best-selling console in Belgium in 2023. This is according to market data recently published by the Video Games Federation Belgium. The total market grew by more than 20 percent. This means that the Belgian games market has experienced By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Team Kerzoven and Metaroot are releasing "Of Life and Land" on 2 April 2024 in Early Access. © Team Kerzoven and Metaroot Products Of Life and Land By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Oerding (l.) interviews game composer and concert curator Süß on stage. © GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Publishing Game Music Concert Sells out LMU Grand Aula With a game concert full of strategy titles, German games and classics, amateur emsemble MünchenKlang successfully filled one of Munich's most prestigious venues. The concert was curated by Yannick Süß, game composer for THQ Nordic, and moderated by BR's Henrik Oerding. The Game Music - Live By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President in charge of competition policy © Stine Heilmann, European Union, 2019 Business EC Initiates DMA Proceedings Against Alphabet, Apple and Meta Investigations have been opened against Alphabet, Apple and Meta for non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act. This includes the rules that govern how Apple controls the App Store and how Google controls the Play Store. The European Commission has opened investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta under the Digital Markets By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Wooga's first "real" gamer event in Germany © Jadranko Marjanovic Publishing Wooga's first "real" gamer event in Germany The first "real" gamer event organized by Wooga in Germany took place last weekend in Bottrop. Around 200 players from the June's Journey community attended. On 23 March, Wooga held its first real-time community event. The Berlin-based company behind the billion-dollar hit June's Journey By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© kr3m Publishing kr3m Internationalises Online Games Platform Playground For the first time, kr3m has signed up French daily Le Monde as an international partner for its Playground online games platform. Further international deals are expected to follow. kr3m has long been an established partner for media companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The online games platform Playground, developed By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Metacritic #1 Game Publisher in 2023 Is Capcom. © Metacritic Publishing Metacritic #1 Game Publisher in 2023 Is Capcom Just like in 2019, Capcom has won the annual game publisher ranking on Metacritic. But how did publishers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Europe fare? Which publishers released the best games in 2023? This question is answered by Metacritic's annual game publisher ranking, now in its 14th year. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Tencent shifts strategy to focus on own IPs. © Tencent Holding Publishing Tencent Shifts Strategy to Focus on Own IPs Despite strong year-end results, Tencent is not satisfied with its performance. In the future, the Chinese giant will focus more on its own games and less on third-party IPs. Tencent generated revenues of 609 billion yuan (78 billion euros) across all its businesses in 2023, up ten percent from 2022. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© DCP Business DCP Continues to Develop as a Brand with a New Look The German Computer Game Award (Deutscher Computerspielpreis; DCP) has been given a new look this year without attracting too much attention. The trophy has not changed, so the branding and the physical prize are separate. A new logo for the German Computer Game Award has been used on the website By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The look of Harold Halibut is unique. © Slow Bros. Publishing Slow Bros. From Cologne to Release Harold Halibut in April The stop-motion game Harold Halibut by Slow Bros. will be released in mid-April 2024. It took more than ten years from the initial idea to the finished game. On 16 April 2024, the time has come: Harold Halibut by Slow Bros. from Cologne will be released on PC, PS5 and By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Jonas "Jonny" Wirth and Jamie "Chaser" Bartel from SC Paderborn were delighted after the win against RB Leipzig © ESL Esports SC Paderborn Wins Virtual Bundesliga Team Competition SC Paderborn are German champions for the first time. The second division club's e-sports team beat RB Leipzig, the winners of the last two years, in the final. The players' final will take place at the end of April. It's a minor sensation: SC Paderborn By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Only if you know which social media platform to use to reach hypercasual gamers (red), casual gamers (green) and core gamers (blue) can you target them. The chart from Sensor Tower shows the average impression rate compared to the general US population. © Sensor Tower Business Sensor Tower: Europe's Mobile Gaming Market Bucks the Trend In mid-March, Sensor Tower released its "The State of Gaming 2024" report, which forecasts a two per cent decline in global mobile gaming revenues in 2023 and analyses a number of trends. In Europe, revenues outperformed the global average. 2023 was a challenging year for the mobile gaming By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
