Fonce © Ciné-Litté Business Creative Europe Media 2024: €7.7M Euros for European Video Games 41 games benefit from €7.7 million Creative Europe Media Video Games funding in 2024, six games projects from Germany (€1.3 million) and one from Austria. Among the games receiving funding is Fonce, a tale of love and war by Cologne-based Ciné-Litté Productions. It is an interactive, animated VR By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Ravi Ahuja, CEO und President Sony Pictures © Screenshot/Sony's CES 2025 press conference Business Sony's Strategy of Expanding Game IPs with New Movies and Series At CES, Sony announced new film projects for Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2, an anime series based on Ghost of Tsushima, and the launch of the second season of The Last of Us TV series. It became clear that the cross-media exploitation of IPs is a strategy for the By Team Gamesmarkt • 2 min read
Part of the Paintbucket Games team. © Paintbucket Games Website Business Paintbucket Games Develops Game for Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) The German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) has selected Paintbucket Games to develop a game for the project 'Demokratieraum. Die "Landshut" in Friedrichshafen' with a volume of €400,000. 41 studios took part in the tender. The German Federal Agency for By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Dr Oliver Daum © Daum Esports Dr Oliver Daum Appointed 2nd Chairman of the Esports Association of Schleswig-Holstein The E-Sport Association of Schleswig-Holstein has appointed Dr Oliver Daum, a lawyer from Kiel, as its new 2nd chairman. With effect from 1 January 2025, he will take over from Jana Möglich, who held the position until May 2024. Dr Oliver Daum has not only legal expertise, but also a By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Sandro Wildi (Eagle Capital Partners AG), Stefan Grosser, Fritz Feissli (Promopers), Markus Oeller (1SP Agency), Nicolas Purpura (Promopers), Roger Wyss (Tax Consultant) © 1SP Business 1SP Agency Strengthens Retail and Sales Marketing With Acquisition of Swiss Company promoPers Hamburg-based 1SP Agency has acquired promoPers, a Swiss agency specialising in retail, sales, personnel and channel marketing. By expanding into the Swiss market, the international marketing company not only strengthens its global presence, but also expands its service portfolio. One day before Christmas, when most of the games industry was By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Luis Quintero/Pexels Business Event Archive: All Events from Former Years Whether it's a fan festival, an esports competition or a traditional trade fair, the games industry is all about making personal contacts and meeting potential business partners at events. Most B2C events therefore also offer a forum for B2B networking. We are always compiling a running list of By Team Gamesmarkt • 5 min read
© Steininger Business Restart of Federal Game Funding with Restrictions and Reservations Immediately after Christmas, the German government surprised the games industry by restarting federal funding, albeit under less favorable conditions. The absence of a 2025 budget means uncertainty looms over how much funding will be available for larger projects and when it might run out again. While questions remain, the restart By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© GM Business Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The GamesMarkt team is taking a well-deserved holiday break, and we’d like to extend our warmest wishes to all our readers for a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year 2024 was a challenging year for many, both in the German and international games industry, and it was By Team Gamesmarkt • 1 min read
Distribution Channels for Games © GamesMarkt, PP Business The Games Industry's Perspective on 2025 - Part #5: Products & Distribution By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© RTL Business Toggo GG to Be Adapted for Linear TV Starting in January Starting mid-January, ten episodes of the gaming show Toggo GG will air on Toggo / Super RTL’s linear TV channel. It is not the first video game for kids to come from the digital realm and make it into the main program of a broadcasting station. The first episode of By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© screenshot Business Harold Halibut Wins Indie Game Award for Visual Design At the Indie Game Awards, Cologne-based studio Slow Bros. took home the award in the Visual Design category. The big winner of the evening, however, was Canadian solo developer Local Thunk with Balatro. The decisions are in: during a streamed event on the night of December 19/20 (CET), the By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© The Game Awards Business The Game Awards Reaches New Record with 154m Viewer Almost 16,000 co-streams on YouTube and Twitch, but also a general increase in interest, have driven global viewership of Geoff Keighley's awards ceremony and new releases show to new record heights. The final result of 154 million viewers is perhaps only an estimate, but there is no By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
