© Yellow Brick Games Products Eternal Strands The first game from Canada's Yellow Brick Games, which employs renowned ex-developers from Ubisoft, Electronic Arts and BioWare, is called Eternal Strands. It's an action-adventure with surprisingly good and creative combat against towering enemies - and it seems pleasingly focused on the core elements. Magic, By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
FFF Managing Director Dorothee Erpenstein © Picture: FFF Bayern/Archive image Business FFF Confirms 2024 Games Funding Balance FFF Bayern has released its 2024 funding balance, confirming a total of €3.6 million in games funding—an amount that Bavaria’s Minister for Digital Affairs, Fabian Mehring, had already announced in December. However, it appears there was additional funding allocated to the XR sector. Traditionally, FFF Bayern presents By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© IOC Esports First Olympic Esports Games Reportedly Postponed The U.S. magazine Sports Business reports exclusively that the first Olympic Esports Games will no longer take place in 2025. While the report has not been officially confirmed, industry insiders say they would not be surprised by such a decision. The inaugural Olympic Esports Games were initially planned for By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
GOG Dreamlist © GOG.com Publishing GOG Dreamlist Started to Bring Back Games With Greater Vigour Online distribution platform GOG has launched the Dreamlist, a public tool to persuade publishers to re-release games that are no longer accessible. Also: Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 have been re-released. CD Projekt's GOG.com has launched Dreamlist, a community-based tool that allows people By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© GM Business Astro Bot and Black Myth: Wukong Receive Seven GDCA Nominations Each The nominees for this year's Game Developers Choice Awards have been announced. Two studios from Asia received the most nominations. Most of the nominated studios from Europe are based in Sweden. From Germany, Osmotic Studios was at least able to make it into the list of honourable mentions. By Stephan Steininger • 4 min read
RoadCraft © Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment Publishing Astragon to Distribute RoadCraft From Focus Entertainment in the GSA Once again, astragon Entertainment and Focus Entertainment are working together. In May 2025, the Düsseldorf-based company will distribute the console editions of RoadCraft in retail stores in German-speaking countries. Astragon Entertainment is once again partnering with Focus Entertainment (Pullup) for the distribution of RoadCraft. Announced at gamescom 2024, By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Hideaki Nishino / Hiroki Totoki / Hermen Hulst © SIE PS.Blog / Sony Group & Sony Investor Database / Sony Group Corp. Business Hideaki Nishino Appointed President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Sony Interactive Entertainment has made changes to its management structure. Hideaki Nishino, currently CEO of the Platform Business Group, will become the new President and CEO. Hermen Hulst will remain CEO of the Studio Business Group. SIE Chairman Hiroki Totoki will become the new President and CEO of Sony Group By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Rebellion Products Sniper Elite: Resistance Rebellion's Sniper Elite franchise has more than 20 million players worldwide. And that number is set to grow substantially at the end of January 2025, when the next game in the series, Sniper Elite: Resistance, is released. It's hard to believe, but the Sniper Elite franchise By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
A first-person camera mode for building in Update 5. © Keen Games Publishing Full Release of Enshrouded Moved to 2026, but With a Full Roadmap for 2025 To mark the first anniversary of the Early Access release of Enshrouded, Keen Games has released the fifth content update and revealed that the 1.0 release of Enshrouded will not take place until the spring of 2026. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Felix Rentschler will transition from 1. FSV Mainz 05 to the Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL) as Head of Virtual Bundesliga © DFL Business Felix Rentschler Heads Virtual Bundesliga at DFL Starting on 1 February, Felix Rentschler will transition from 1. FSV Mainz 05 to the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL; German Football League). As the new Head of Virtual Bundesliga, he will oversee the management of competitions now officially anchored in the DFL statutes. Rentschler will succeed Jörg Höfklich, who has By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Everspace 2: Wrath of the Ancients © Rockfish Games Publishing Rockfish Games Is Back With Another Expansion for Everspace 2 The Everspace 2 team from Hamburg (Rockfish Games) is expanding its space looter-shooter RPG with several new star systems, a new player ship, a new campaign and side missions. Rockfish Games has announced a second expansion. Everspace 2: Wrath of the Ancients will continue the story, adding new star By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© ESL Esports Four German Esports Teams to Compete at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2025 The Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) is heading to Katowice, Poland for another Counter-Strike showdown. Four teams from Germany are also taking part in this major tournament. The first ESL Pro Tour (EPT) Championship of the year returns to Katowice for the 13th time (29 January to 9 February), with By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
