© Plaion Business Plaion Puts Oscar Del Moral in Charge of Southern Europe Plaion has reorganised its management in Southern Europe. The move was prompted by the transfer of Plaion Italy Country Manager Umberto Bettini to Milestone. As General Manager of Milestone, Umberto Bettini will take over the day-to-day business of the Italian studio, which also belongs to Plaion and is known for By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Five Migrant Stories Told in Songs of Travel. © Causa Creations Publishing Five Migrant Stories Told in Songs of Travel by Causa Creations Causa Creations will release its new game Songs of Travel, an interactive animated graphic novel that tells the story of how different migrants have found their place in the world, for Android and iOS in May 2024. Songs of Travel, developed by Austrian studio Causa Creations, is an animated graphic By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Rogue Voltage is the first game from Horizont Computergrafik. © Horizont Publishing First Game From Horizont Computergrafik to be Released in May In May, the first game from Berlin-based Horizont Computergrafik will go into Early Access: Rogue Voltage. The title has already won several awards. The original game pitch was: "Oldschool Final Fantasy, but you play it like a Zachtronics-style engineering puzzler". Horizont Computergrafik will release its first game, Rogue By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Assemble / Marcinek Business GermanDevDays Open Registration, Looking for Speakers The GermanDevDays 2024 on 7 and 8 August are now open for ticket buyers, learners and teaching staff, the latter two being eligible for free tickets. The conference is also looking for speakers until 20 May. Registrations for this year’s GermanDevDays (GDD) from 7 to 8 August in Frankfurt By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Blizzard Business No BlizzCon This Year, but Blizzard Confirms gamescom Presence This year, there will be no BlizzCon. However, Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed that it will be attending gamescom to bring the community together and showcase upcoming releases. There will be no BlizzCon this year. "This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
E-Paper GamesMarkt 462 Topics in this issue include: Digital Market Act & Digital Service Act in gaming, interview with the Tiny Roar founders, brand of the month Kingdom Come Deliverance II and a company portrait of Hooded Horse. By Team GamesMarket • 3 min read
Wegesrand CEO Thorsten Unger. © Wegesrand Business Wegesrand and Edtech Provider ovos Sign Cooperation Agreement Wegesrand and Austrian edtech company Ovos have signed a cooperation agreement. Under the agreement, Wegesrand will license the ovos tool, providing a standardised tool for the production of customised solutions and content. Wegesrand, which is based in Mönchengladbach, is continuing its expansion in the GSA region and has entered into By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Frostpunk 2 will be released at the end of July this year. © 11 bit Publishing Over Five Million Frostpunk Units Sold in six Years Survival city builder Frostpunk has been a huge success for 11 bit studios, selling five million units in six years. The sequel, due out in July, is already on more than two million Steam wishlists. On the sixth anniversary of Frostpunk's release, 11 bit studios have announced that By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
CEO Satya Nadella und CFO Amy Hood Microsoft. © Microsoft Business Xbox Gaming Revenue up 51%, but Only Thanks to Activision Blizzard Microsoft has released its FY24 Q3 financial report. Revenues in the gaming segment were up 51 per cent, mainly due to the impact of the Activision Blizzard acquisition. Xbox consoles, on the other hand, saw a considerable drop in sales. Microsoft's total gaming revenue for the three months By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
The shirt shows Franconia, but the walls are in Lower Saxony: Dennis Quaisser is now part of Pixel Maniacs. © Quaisser Business Pixel Maniacs Recruits Dennis Quaisser as Business and Funding Manager After having had to close his own studio in February, Dennis Quaisser becomes a remote Franconian with a new job: As Business Developer & Funding Manager at Nuremberg's indie center Pixel Maniacs. After he had to close down his six-person studio Suspicious Games in February due to a By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Yager under MD Ullmann is co-developing Exoborne with Sharkmob. © Yager, Ullmann / Tencent Development Yager is Co-Developing Two New Tencent Games Since 2022, MD Timo Ullmann's Yager is developing Dune: Awakening in the Tencent parent company. Now, the Berlin studio is taking up another co-development: Exoborne together with Swedish-British Sharkmob. The announcement comes in Yager's 25th anniversary year, following a rebranding. In the year of its 25th By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
