© 11 bit Products Frostpunk 2 With more than two million wishlists, Frostpunk 2 from 11 bit studios is the third most-wanted game on Steam. The sequel to the survival city builder released in 2018 will surpass its predecessor in almost every discipline, especially in terms of scale, and of course there will once again By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
© Devolver Products The Plucky Squire One of the creative highlights of this year's autumn gaming season is The Plucky Squire, developed by All Possible Futures and published by Devolver Digital. In this playable love letter to action-adventure games such as Zelda and the like, storybook characters discover a three-dimensional world outside By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
The marketplace Fab.com is scheduled to launch in mid-October. © Screenshop Unreal Engine Blog Development Epic Games Launches Fab Marketplace in Mid-October At GDC 2023, Epic Games announced that it would be merging all of its asset stores under one brand: Fab. A year ago, the launch of Fab was delayed. Now, the marketplace is scheduled to launch in mid-October. It was an ambitious project that was supposed to make it By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© GamesMarkt Business How Much Money can I Make in Games? What salary do different vocations in the German games industry make? We surveyed the salaries of the six biggest job areas in games from junior to senior and cross-referenced them with last year‘s results. We have asked more than 100 companies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
© Square Enix Publishing What Square Enix Is Doing Differently When Launching Final Fantasy XVI on PC Just over a year after its release on PlayStation 5, Square Enix is bringing Final Fantasy XVI to PC, but this time without store exclusivity, at a lower price, and hopefully with a better technical port thanks to a previous demo. Square Enix chose the beginning of this year' By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© Screenshot VGFB Business VGFB Supports VGE Arguments With Own Survey The Belgian Games Federation is using the results of its own survey to support the arguments of the VGE and EGDF in response to complaints from consumer protection organisations against in-game purchase mechanisms of some publishers. The results show that Belgian parents are aware of the spending of their By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Rockfish Games Publishing Rockfish Games Doubles Down on Everspace 2 The first DLC for Everspace 2, Titans, has been released, featuring two massive space encounters. But Rockfish Games has even bigger plans and will be creating a second, even bigger expansion. Hamburg-based Rockfish Games has released Everspace 2: Titans, the first major DLC for Everspace 2, on Steam, GOG, By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Children playing Wo ist Goldi?. © Digital Ministry Business Bavaria Optimises Media Competency App Wo ist Goldi? for Windows The media competency app Wo ist Goldi? by Wegesrand. and the Bavarian Digital Ministry has been optimised for Windows. Up until now, the app could only be used on Mobile devices. It is authorised for usage in schools and has won several serious game awards. In the German Federal state By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© VGE Business VGE Published Demands for the Coming EU Mandate Twelve demands for the development of the games industry and the policies regarding it in the European Union: The European association Video Games Europe has formulated their thoughts for the coming mandate period of 2025-2029 in a manifesto. European games association Video Games Europe (VGE) has published a manifesto By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
The Magdeburg eSports club house, with Müller in the middle. © Magdeburg eSports e.V. Esports What Does it Cost to Run an Esports Club House? Providing an on-site esports club house takes money, time and effort. Martin Müller, Chairman of Magdeburg eSports and Vice President of the eSports Federation Germany, has released costs and incomes of the Magdeburg eSports club house for 2022 and 2023. The numbers show a decline in sponsoring money, but By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Jens Junge and Timo Schöber cooperate in more than the academic endeveaour. © Justus Junge, Timo Schöber Campus ThinkGameful! and Institute for Ludology Cooperate for Research Projects Esports experts Timo Schöber and Jens Junge are no strangers to cooperation – now their academic institutions are coming together as well. Schöber's thinktank ThinkGameful! and the Institute for Ludology at the SRH Hochschule Berlin headed by Junge are announcing their cooperation to tackle bigger research projects in gaming By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© SWR Publishing SWR Launches Audio Game App Pale Blue Südwestrundfunk (SWR) continues to be open to the medium of games. The new podcast project 'Hellblau' is accompanied by an audio game app developed in cooperation with Pangolin Park. The topic of the podcast and audio game is the multicrisis. Hellblau - Der 5 Minuten Padcast zur Multikrise has By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
