The look of Harold Halibut is unique. © Slow Bros. Publishing Slow Bros. From Cologne to Release Harold Halibut in April The stop-motion game Harold Halibut by Slow Bros. will be released in mid-April 2024. It took more than ten years from the initial idea to the finished game. On 16 April 2024, the time has come: Harold Halibut by Slow Bros. from Cologne will be released on PC, By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Jonas "Jonny" Wirth and Jamie "Chaser" Bartel from SC Paderborn were delighted after the win against RB Leipzig © ESL Esports SC Paderborn Wins Virtual Bundesliga Team Competition SC Paderborn are German champions for the first time. The second division club's e-sports team beat RB Leipzig, the winners of the last two years, in the final. The players' final will take place at the end of April. It's a minor sensation: SC By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Only if you know which social media platform to use to reach hypercasual gamers (red), casual gamers (green) and core gamers (blue) can you target them. The chart from Sensor Tower shows the average impression rate compared to the general US population. © Sensor Tower Business Sensor Tower: Europe's Mobile Gaming Market Bucks the Trend In mid-March, Sensor Tower released its "The State of Gaming 2024" report, which forecasts a two per cent decline in global mobile gaming revenues in 2023 and analyses a number of trends. In Europe, revenues outperformed the global average. 2023 was a challenging year for the mobile By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Symbolic image © Luis Quintero/Pexels Esports Two Esports Research Conferences Announced for October October in Europe will be dominated by esports and gaming research: while the Esports Research Network will hold this year's interdisciplinary conference in London at the end of October, researchers will gather in Berlin in mid-October for the second Gaming & Esports Summit, which will focus more By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Helldivers 2 is celebrating an explosive debut in the US charts. © Sony Interactive Entertainment Business US Market Grows Slightly in February 2024 Despite Hardware Weakness In February 2024, sales of video games, hardware and accessories in the US grew slightly to just under 4.7 billion dollar. While sales of game consoles declined sharply, sales of accessories and mobile revenues increased. Helldivers II, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth and Skull and Bones were strong performers. Projected By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Screenshot showing Industria 2. © Bleakmill and Headup Publishing Bleakmill and Headup Announce Industria 2 Industria, the narrative shooter from Bleakmill and Headup, is about to get a proper sequel. Industria 2 is scheduled for release in 2025. Bleakmill is an indie developer based in Berlin and Glasgow that makes narrative first-person games. They are once again working with Headup. Developer Bleakmill and publisher By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Percentage share of each market segment in the games sector in France in 2023; dématérialisé means digital. © SELL Business Record Sales of Games in France in 2023, Normalization is Expected In France, the computer and video games industry achieved record sales in 2023. More than six billion euros were generated, which is more than ever before. The increase in sales is mainly due to the wider availability of hardware and the overall strength of the console market. Normalization is expected By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
© Outline Development Publishing Outline Development Launches Digital Version of "Noch mal so gut!" With Noch mal so gut!, German indie studio Outline Development has converted another Schmidt Spiele board game into an app. Its predecessor is one of the studio's top titles. Almost six years after the launch of the "Noch Mal!" app, Outline Development has also realised and By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
"Echoes of the Waves" left and "Lucky Tower Ultimate" represent Switzerland and Germany respectively at the London Games Festival. © Oneira Games / Studio Seufz Events London Games Festival showcases Studio Seufz and Oneira Games Two games from GSA are part of the upcoming London Games Festival showcase on-site and on Steam in April: "Lucky Tower Ultimate" by Studio Seufz from Stuttgart, Germany and "Echo of the Waves" by Oneira Games from Geneva, Switzerland. To the B2B gathering Games Finance By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Sandra Meier, Lead Graphic Designer at Giants Software. © Meier/Giants Business G+ Sandra Meier: Bringing a breath of fresh air and seizing opportunities By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Two birds, one space adventure: Toukana and kurzgesagt team up for "Project Mango". © Toukana / kurzgesagt Development "Dorfromantik" devs Toukana team up with kurzgesagt for "Project Mango" Together with the science communication storytellers kurzgesagt, award-winning "Dorfromantik" team Toukana Interactive from Berlin just revealed their next game, "Project Mango", at Future Games Show. Toukana Interactive, the studio behind the award winning German indie hit "Dorfromantik", is teaming up with science communication By Team GamesMarket • 1 min read
Impression from DevGamm Gdansk 2024. © DevGamm Development DevGamm brings Summer Festival to Vilnius in June This year's DevGamm Vilnius wants to bring summer festival vibes to the Lithuanian capital on 14 and 15 June. With the announcement, Super Early Bird ticket discounts will run until 1 April. After it’s Gdansk event at the end of February, the DevGamm travels to Vilnius for By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
