Carsten Widera-Trombach, Managing Director of Crenetic and Winfried Diekmann, Managing Director of Aerosoft. © Aerosoft Business Aerosoft and Crenetic Extend Successful Relationship Aerosoft and crenetic have signed an agreement to develop the next firefighting simulation. This continues a long and successful relationship between the two games companies. Aerosoft and crenetic have renewed their long-standing partnership with a new contract. The aim is to further develop the successful "Notruf 112" product By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Nintendo Business G+ "Princess Peach: Showtime!" and its Marketing fit the Time By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Minister of Family Affairs Lisa Paus roused the anger - and soothed it. © Ministry of Family Affairs Esports G+ How Gaming and eSports fell in Political Conflict in Germany By Pascal Wagner • 5 min read
Michael Graf is the New Head of Video Publishing at Webedia Gaming Germany © Alexander Klebe Business Michael Graf to Internationalise Formats as New Head of Video Publishing Michael Graf, most recently a member of the editorial team at "GameStar" and Head of Podcast, will be responsible for all editorial video content at Webedia Gaming in Germany as Head of Video Publishing. Oliver Stannius will take on new responsibilities as Head of Studios & Events. With By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Epic Games has officially announced its own store for Android and iOS with this concept image. © Epic Games Publishing Epic Games Store Coming to iOS and Android This Year At GDC 2024, Epic Games confirmed that the Epic Games Store will launch on iOS and Android later this year. It will be the first game-focused, multi-platform store across mobile, PC and macOS. New features for Unreal Engine 5 were also unveiled, as well as new opportunities for creators and By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
"Venbas" devs Visai Games from Canada wins big at IGF and GDC awards. © GDC Business "Venba" Wins Big at IGF Awards 2024, Bonte Avond and thecatamites Bring Gold to Europe Winner of the evening at this year's Independent Games Festival Awards was Visai Games with "Venba", but with Bonte Avond, thecatamites and other innovative and experimental indie game developers, a lot of great titles were lauded at yesterday's ceremony. This year’s Independent Games By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Yoko Shimomura received the award for the musical work of a lifetime. © GDC Business Yoko Shimomura wins Lifetime Achievement, Fawzi Mesmar Ambassador Award at GDC While Larian came on stage for four "Baldur's Gate 3" trophies at the Game Developers Choice Awards 2024, among them Game of the Year, two industry people were awarded prices for their work: Japanese composer Yoko Shimomura won Lifetime Achievement, Fawzi Mesmar of Ubisoft the Ambassador By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
"Bulwark" combines city-building with real-time strategy combat. © Wired Products G+ Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Martin Pitzl joins Mifcom as Senior Marketing Manager © Pitzl Business Martin Pitzl joins Mifcom Former Activision Blizzard and Sony Interactive Entertainment manager Martin Pitzl has joined Mifcom as Senior Marketing Manager. Martin Pitzl is the new Senior Marketing Manager at German high-end PC manufacturer Mifcom. Founded in 2003 as a pure distributor, Mifcom expanded in 2005 to include the production of computers, focusing on By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The South Entrance to the Koelnmesse exhibition centre © Koelnmesse GmbH, Harald Fleissner Business gamescom Launches Ticket Sales for Consumers and Trade Visitors Ticket sales for the world's largest games trade show have begun with the opening of the ticket shop on the new gamescom.global website. Trade visitors can purchase day and 3-day tickets. Accreditation for press and developers will begin shortly. With more than five months to go, ticket By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Dr Fabian Mehring has been Bavarian State Minister for Digital Affairs since 8 November 2023. © Andreas Gebert Business Bavaria Funds 13 Games Projects with Almost 1.7 Million euros A total of 13 games projects will receive 1.68 million euros in funding from the Bavarian Film Fund (FFF Bayern). In this context, Bavaria's Digital Minister Mehring warns that "the budget fiasco of the federal government should not be carried on the back of the games By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
For market analyses such as the development of the revenues of game and in-game purchases, here using the example of data for 2022, the German industry association game used data from both GfK and Data.ai. © game Business Sensor Tower Buys Rival Data.ai Data.ai is now part of the US market research company Sensor Tower. The acquisition also changes the data partner of many European industry associations, including game. In a surprising move, Sensor Tower has announced the acquisition of competitor data.ai. Financial details of the deal, which will influence business By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
