© GamesMarkt, PP Business G+ The Games Industry's Perspective on 2025 - Part #1: General Outlook By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
The current USK Advisory Board (from left to right): Dr. Ingrid Stapf, Cordula Zimmer, Miriam Junker-Ojo, Felix Falk, Nicole Müller, Sebastian Gutknecht, Maja Wegener, Heico Michael Engelhardt, Petra Müller, Elisabeth Secker (USK), Dr. Andreas Deimann, Eva Hanel, Lorenzo von Petersdorff (USK). © USK Business USK Advisory Board Expands Guidelines for the Classification of Digital Games For the past two years, the USK has incorporated so-called use risks - such as chat functions or loot boxes in digital games - into the age rating process. The USK's advisory board has now integrated these practical findings into its official guiding criteria. Since USK examiners began considering By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Christopher Flato, Sandra Kilian and Matthias Remmert © GM/ESBD Esports Christopher Flato Appointed as President, Sandra Kilian and Matthias Remmert as VPs Following the expiration of part of the presidium’s term of office, the eSport Bund Deutschland (ESBD) has elected a new president. Christopher Flato, stepping into the role, has outlined ambitious goals for 2025. Christopher Flato, who previously served as 1st Vice President of the ESBD, was unanimously elected as By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© GM Publishing Sales Successes for Farming Simulator, Avatar, and Astro Bot in Germany Three titles achieved the criteria for a sales award set by the Game Association in November. Unlike Farming Simulator 25 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Sony's Astro Bot received its award on only one platform, the PS5. Released in September, Astro Bot sold over 100,000 units on By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© TGA Publishing The Game Awards 2024 - All the Announcements and Highlights in One Place This year's Game Awards saw a host of new games, world premieres and new content. Sega, Plaion and 2K Games had plenty on show too. From Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet and Okami to Split Fiction and Elden Ring Nightreign, here are the announcements at a glance. The biggest By Marcel Kleffmann • 11 min read
Troy Baker, Harrison Ford, Todd Howard and Melina Juergens © The Game Awards 2024 Business Second Game Award in the Same Category for Melina Juergens German-born Melina Juergens, who works for Ninja Theory in the UK, has won a Game Award for the second time. No actor has ever won the 'Best Performance' trophy twice. Melina Juergens received the award for her portrayal of Senua in Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Helge Jürgens, CEO, and Dr. Anna Sarah Vielhaber, Head of New Media Funding (both Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg) © Friederike Werner / Medienboard Business Medienboard: "Berlin is Expecting a Big Games Party in May" Despite difficult times, the Medienboard had a good year in terms of funding games and XR projects, but especially games. And 2025 will be even better, as CEO Helge Jürgens and Head of New Media Funding Dr. Anna Sarah Vielhaber report in an interview. GM: How would you sum up By Stephan Steininger • 5 min read
Markus Wilding (left) and Stephan Reichart © Archivbild Business Markus Wilding Supports Devcom as Business Consultant The marketing and communications expert Markus Wilding will support the devcom team of game events in the future as Businss Consultant. Wilding and Reichart announced their partnership with devcom, with Stephan Reichart and the team, including Roufina Guenkova, Nico Balletta, and Stephan Werle, on LinkedIn. Wilding wrote: "If you By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The teams and mentors of the current Games Lift Incubator of Gamecity Hamburg © Jan-Marius Komorek Business First Progress Report at the Games Lift Graduation Meet-up Since September, five young teams from Hamburg have been supported by Gamecity Hamburg as part of the current Games Lift Incubator 2024 with workshops, coaching, a workspace at the Space Innovation Center in HafenCity, and 15,000 euros in funding. Now the teams were able to present an interim result By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
everyone will be able to try Squid Game: Unleashed © Netflix/The Game Awards Publishing Netflix Breaks Tradition with New Release Strategy for Squid Game: Unleashed For the first time since entering the mobile gaming market, Netflix will make a title available to non-subscribers for free. At least for a limited time, everyone will be able to try Squid Game: Unleashed, which is released days before the start of the second season. The announcement was By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The Witcher IV © CD Projekt Red Publishing The Witcher IV Revealed at The Game Awards 2024 CD Projekt Red has unveiled The Witcher IV, the first game in the new Witcher saga, with a cinematic trailer at The Game Awards 2024 in Los Angeles. The role-playing game aims to be the most immersive and ambitious open-world Witcher game to date. During this year' By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Astro Bot © Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment Business Astro Bot Is the Big Winner at the Game Awards 2024 Sony's Astro Bot has been named Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024. The charming 3D platformer also won in three other categories. Three awards went to Balatro and Metaphor: ReFantazio. Melina Juergens won her second award in the Best Performance category for Senua in Senua& By Marcel Kleffmann • 7 min read
