The Indie Arena Booth at gamescom 2024. © Rolf Otzipka Business Indie Arena Booth Gets 370,000 Euro Creative Europe Funding As part of the current Creative Europe Media round for market funding, the Indie Arena Booth by Super Crowd has received 370,000 euros in EU funds. In the current funding round of Creative Europe Media for European markets, 16.3 million euros have been allocated. 3.4 million euros By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Steve Collins, CTO © Unity Business Steve Collins Joins Unity As New Chief Technology Officer Former King CTO and Havok co-founder Steve Collins joins Unity as its new Chief Technology Officer. The company, which has just released Unity 6, is strengthening its technical leadership as it accelerates transformation. Unity today announced that Steve Collins is joining Unity as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), providing key technical By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Sonia Fizek speaking on last year's Sustainability Nexus. © CGL, SpielFabrique Business Sustainability Nexus 2024 Connects Nordics and Germany The second Sustainability Nexus of BSG!Go and SpielFabrique happens on 12 November in several Nordic cities as well as in Cologne, Berlin and online. Participation online or at the Cologne Game Lab event is free of charge. Together with interregional EU project BSG-Go!, the agency SpielFabrique invites to the By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Cam Weber President EA Sports, Laura Miele, President EA Entertainment & Technology, Andrew Wilson, CEO Electronic Arts, Byron Beed, Group General Manager Battlefield (from left to right) © Screenshot EA Webcast of Investor Day 2024 Business Performance of EA Sports Games Drives Record Q2 Net Bookings for EA American Football and Global Football have led Electronic Arts to its best second quarter ever, despite lowered expectations for Apex Legends. The publisher will release Dragon Age: The Veilguard tomorrow. Electronic Arts has announced its preliminary financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal year ended 30 September 2024. By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
The founders of Aldamami (from left to right): David Cafisso, Katharina "Mikey" Müller, Alicja Schneider and Marvin Braun © Aldamami Games Business Aldamami is Excited to Start The Rabbit This year's The Rabbit starts on October 31. One of the participating teams is Aldamami, which was nominated for this year's DCP in the category Best Prototype. We talked to the four founders about their expectations of the extraordinary program. On Thursday, The Rabbit 2024 begins, By Stephan Steininger • 4 min read
© Zoran Roso Consulting Business Markus Wilding Joins Zoran Roso as Consultant Marketing veteran Markus Wilding has gone freelance recently, and is now joining Zoran Roso Consulting for one of his first official contracts. Marketing veteran Markus Wilding has a new contract: On LinkedIn, he announced that he would work with Zoran Roso on his marketing and publishing consultancy firm Zoran Roso By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Chances are high that one of the DevGamm awards goes to GSA this year. © DevGamm Business DevGamm Awards 2024 Nominations Feature Strong Contenders from GSA At the DevGamm Awards 2024 in Portugal on 15 November, the nominations are chock-full with strong contenders from Germany and Austria. Hoping for an award are bippinbits, Christoph Minnameier, Sven Ahlgrimm & Mathilde Hoffmann, Osmotic Studios, Mostly Games, Causa Creations and neoludic. btf is even nominated twice for Constance. The By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Jakob Wössner joins MFG Digital Culture. © MFG Business Jakob Wössner joins MFG Digital Culture for Museums and Serious Games The funding agency MFG Baden-Württemberg has employed Jakob Wössner in the Digital Culture track: He will work with museums on projects that also involve serious games and gamification. The southwestern German funding agency MFG Baden-Württemberg welcomes a new team member: Jakob Wössner is newly employed in the area of Digital By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Cherry Business Cherry Xtrfy Tests In-Store Sales of Team Vitality Accessories in France Cherry Xtrfy is expanding its portfolio with limited-edition accessories in the design of the successful French esports team Vitality. At the same time, the company is starting a test with Fnac, which will be listing the branded accessories for the first time. In some sports, fan stores are part of By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Play Exhibition in 2023 © Claudia Meiners Business "You Got the Power" Is the Motto of Play 2024 in Hamburg Play - Creative Gaming Festival 2024 will take place in Hamburg from 11 to 16 November. This year's motto is "You Got the Power". Various venues and events in Hamburg will explore the interaction between games and politics. This year's Play - Creative Gaming By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
A record number of attendees visited Game Industry Conference 2024. © GIC Business Game Industry Conference Ends 2024 With Record Numbers Game Industry Conference has brought 3290 attendees to Poland's largest game B2B expo, a new visitor record. On yesterday’s Sunday, 27 October 2024, the 17th Game Industry Conference (GIC) closed its doors in Poznan, Poland. And after it overtook Digital Dragons last year to become the biggest By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Global Gaming Report Q3 2024: M&A activity in the gaming sector © Drake Star Business Drake Star Sees Gaming M&A Activity Increase for Fourth Quarter in a Row and More Insights M&A activity in the gaming sector has increased for the fourth consecutive quarter, with the two largest deals of the year being acquisitions by private equity firms, according to investment bank Drake Star in its Global Gaming Report Q3 2024. Activity is expected to continue to increase. Michael By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
