Automation, automation, automation. © Metaroot Products The Farmer Was Replaced Swiss automation game The Farmer Was Replaced by solo dev Timon Herzog and indie publisher Metaroot combines meditative automated farming with hardcore Python-like coding. What sounds unintuitive has become a great success. The Farmer Was Replaced by Swiss publisher Metaroot and swiss developer Timon Herzog has seen remarkable numbers for By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Julian Migura, COO at VaultN © VaultN, Take-Two Business VaultN and Take-Two Partner to Centralize and Optimize Digital Distribution VaultN, a digital distribution platform, has partnered with Take-Two Interactive Software to enhance the publisher's management and distribution of games through third-party channels. This partnership with VaultN, which is based in Amsterdam, will enable Take-Two to centralise its digital distribution strategy. This will ensure full control, automation and By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Mobidictum Business Mobidictum Conference 2025 Brings Mobile Experts to Istanbul On 21 and 22 October in Istanbul, mobile gaming experts meet for Mobidictum conference in Istanbul. The full program and speaker lineup are online now. Mobidictum Conference 2025, the Turkish games business event focused on mobile games, will take place in Istanbul on October 21-22. The organisers expect over 2000 By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© GM Business Power of Play: France As part of the Power of Play survey, industry associations also took a close look at the participating countries. GamesMarkt summarizes the results. This time: France. What makes gamers around the world tick, and how do they differ from country to country? These questions and many more are addressed in By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
EA Sports FC 26 / Borderlands 4 © EA / 2K Products Take-Two Dominates the German Games Charts in September 2025 By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds © Sega Products Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Sega has launched Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, the latest addition to the long-standing Sonic Racing franchise, on PC and consoles. Featuring races across land, sea, air and space, this classic-style fun racer is surprisingly strong. While Mario Kart has made the leap to an open racing world on the Switch 2 By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Virtual production at SWR. The Südwestrundfunk (SWR) is a regional broadcasting corporation covering the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. © SWR/Christian Koch Business SWR Launches New Pen-and-Paper Format Live on Twitch SWR is launching a new interactive pen-and-paper format called "Fehler im System" (Errors in the System), which will be broadcast live on Twitch. From 7 p.m. on 24 and 25 October, twitch.tv/ard will be the place to be for dice rolling and puzzle solving with By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Spindle © Deck13 Spotlight and Wobble Ghost Products Spindle Released by Wobble Ghost and Deck13 Spotlight Deck13 Spotlight and Wobble Ghost have released Spindle for PC and Switch. This old-school action-adventure game explores the many ways we deal with death. And yes, there is a pig companion. In July 2021, Deck13 Spotlight and Wobble Ghost announced the action-adventure game Spindle, which is being released today for By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© GamesMarkt Business MICE and Men: "Only an Event Can Create These Emotions" Vienna event agency MICE and Men are organising Game City Vienna since 2007. In our interview at Game City 2025, managing partners Milena Riedel and Tarek Sharif talk about the fair’s success, their plans for the future and the Austrian event landscape. Event agency MICE and Men is carrying By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space © Bundesregierung/Steffen Kugler Business Games Department Shown in the Organizational Chart of the Ministry of Science The reintroduced Games Department appears for the first time in a new organizational chart from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. It is docked in the Strategies and Policy Issues division, which is headed by Dr. Effrosyni Chelioti and reports to State Secretary Dr. Marcus Player. The position By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Andreas Tischler / Vienna Press Business Game City Vienna 2025 Breaks Visitor Record With over 87,000 people, Game City Vienna 2025 has broken last year's record by about 2,000. The 16th Game City Vienna with MediaMarkt as its main partner ended yesterday with a record attendance number. From October 10 to 12, over 87,000 visited Vienna City Hall. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
