Constance and The Berlin Apartment by Blue Backpack won both the GDD Best Game Award Awards Blue Backpack and Spoonful Games Dominated GDD Awards Almost all the prizes at this year’s GermanDevDays Awards went to Blue Backpack and Spoonful Games. Only Jonas Pfeiffer and Dieter Marchsreiter were also among the winners. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Products Lost in Cult Holds Five Nominations for the Creativepool Awards 2026 UK media publisher Lost in Cult is nominated five times at the Creativepool 2026 awards, several times each for their Editions and Design Works. McDonald's x Minecraft is also on the shortlist for branding. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Constance and The Berlin Apartment by Blue Backpack Games are competing against each other in two categories Awards GermanDevDays announces nominations for the Indie Award On 22 July, the GDD Indie Awards 2026 ceremony will take place as part of GermanDevDays. The shortlist is dominated by Blue Backpack, which has received a total of 7 nominations for two games By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Awards Tommi Awards: New Subtitle And Call For Entries For 25th Edition With a history spanning 25 years, the Tommi Award is one of Germany’s oldest children’s software awards. To mark its anniversary, it is being relaunched as the Tommi Games Award. At the same time, the submission period is opening and the search is on for members of the children’s and youth jury. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The Best Indie Game at the Digital Vikings Awards 2026 goes to Germany (Digital Vikings) Awards Digital Vikings Awards 2026: Moi Rai Brings Best Indie Game Prize to Hamburg During the Digital Vikings Awards at DevGamm Gdánsk 2026, Moi Rai Games from Hamburg won Best Indie Game. Best Indie Publisher went to Raw Fury. Two awards went to Poland, another to Ukraine. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The winners of the GamesPreis at GamesFestival26 (Daria Kryzhanovska) Awards GamesPreis26 Honours Sagewing Studios, Slothmotion and Vivid Arise 400 people visited the GamesFestival26 this Saturday in Munich, playing real life Mario Kart and countless indie games. The annual GamesPreis was awarded as well, to students as well as young studios such as Sagewing and Slothmotion. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Esports Leaders Honours 2026: Christopher Flato (ESBD), Maria Helmis-Arend (Mayor Cologne), Martin Blum (Leipzig eSports) and Klemens Witt (Leipzig eSports) © Invest in Film Esports Esports Leaders Honours Winners Announced; Leipzig eSports Receives the Local Hero Award The inaugural Esports Leaders Honours ceremony took place on 19 June 2026 as part of Global Esports Industry Week in Cologne. Leipzig eSports was awarded the Local Hero Award during the ceremony. By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa and Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares | Picture: Caisa Rasmussen/UD Awards Sweden Honours Hazelight Studios With Government’s Export Award For CCI The Swedish Government has recognised the achievements of Stockholm-based Hazelight Studios as an export company. The studio behind A Way Out, It Takes Two and Split Fiction received the Government’s Export Award in the Cultural and Creative Industries category. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Awards Paintbucket Games, Yaldi Games And Reynard Films Among Finalists of Games for Change Awards The finalists for the Games for Change Awards have been announced, and German studios and developers are among the nominees, with a total of five nominations. Paintbucket Games and Reynard Films have each received two nominations, whilst Yaldi Games, based in Scotland and Germany, has received one. By Stephan Steininger • 3 min read
The Winners of the Italian Video Game Awards 2026 (c) GamesMarket MK Awards The Winners of the Italian Video Game Awards 2026 The 14th annual Italian Video Game Awards took place tonight. Tiny Bull Studios won the main prize. The ceremony was held as part of the B2B event, First Playable. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Glintseeker Island by Half Soup Labs (left) and Aethermancer by moi rai Games are nominated for this years Digital Vikings Award Awards Two German Studios Nominated for Digital Vikings Awards The shortlist for the Digital Vikings Awards, presented as part of Devgamm Gdansk, has been announced. Among the 12 nominated games across the four product categories are two titles from Germany. All Devgamm Gdansk participating studios are in the running for Studio of the Year. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The winners of Nordic Game Awards 2026, with moderator Magnus Bruun (blue suit, center). (GamesMarket) Awards Nordic Game Awards 2026 Give Triple-Win to ARC Raiders The night’s big winner at the NG Awards 2026 was ARC Raiders by Embark Studios. The title won Nordic Game of the Year as well as Best Audio and Best Technology. Best Debut went to Discounty by Crinkle Cut, while MoonHood won Best Art for The Midnight Walk. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
