© Denk / Super Crowd Business Christian Denk Joins Polaris Team as Brand Partnership Consultant PlayStation GSA veteran Christian Denk joins Hamburg company Super Crowd as Brand Partnership Consultant for the Polaris Convention 2025. Denk has consulted about event and esport related topics for many companies, among them Tencent's Level Infinite and Capcom Germany. Super Crowd is getting reinforcement for its Polaris Convention: By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The German Pavilion on GDC 2024. © BMWK / game Business German Pavilion Brings 12 Game Studios to Tokyo Game Show 2024 The German Pavilion of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action is hosting twelve German companies at Tokyo Game Show. Among them are indies like BAD Spiele and ByteRockers', publishers like Kalypso and Daedalic and even service providers like 4-Real Intermedia and Black Screen Records. The German By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Antstream Business Antstream Arcade Comes To PlayStation Subscription service Antstream is coming to PlayStation on 6 September. The retro streaming platform includes 1,300 games from a range of old consoles as well as Arcade. It will be the first time old Nintendo console versions of games will ever be available on a Sony platform. Subscription streaming By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© GamesMarkt Business European Games Key Markets: United Kingdom in 2023 By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
The co-op shooter EvilVEvil fell short of expectations. © Toadman Interactive, Facebook Business Around 100 Job Cuts at Toadman Interactive, Partly in Berlin Swedish game developer and work-for-hire studio Toadman Interactive is cutting jobs and closing offices in Stockholm, Visby and Oslo. The Berlin studio will also see "some redundancies". In total, parent company Enad Global 7 will cut around 100 jobs, leaving only a skeleton staff. Job cuts have also By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Tobias Kopka is CEO & Interaction Designer at Curatomic and Program Director of the games congress. © Alessandro de Matteis Campus Tobias Kopka: "Ideas and Action Flow Swiftly" gamescom congress 2024 has been the biggest so far – not least because of the new location at the Confex and a bigger cast of speakers. We talked to program manager Tobias Kopka about this year's challenges and successes, as well as the direction change in the big political By Pascal Wagner • 6 min read
The Spanish Council Presidency in the second half of 2023 was one of the biggest political forays into video games on EU level. © CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2023 – Source: EP Business How Video Games are Handled on the European Level By Pascal Wagner • 5 min read
© Matej Samide Business Matej Samide Transitions to Project Manager at DCP Award Office He stays at the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur: Matej Samide was Communications Manager for the project "Let's Remember", now he is Project Manager at the Award Office for the German Computer Game Award DCP. Some transitions are smooth: After his position as Communications Manager at the Digital By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Luciano Pereña, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President / Frank Rittinghaus has been appointed Managing Director of European Marketing & D2C Business / Stephan Bole has been President of Nintendo of Europe since 2018. © Nintendo of Europe Business New Management Structure at Nintendo of Europe: Luciano Pereña Succeeds Stephan Bole The new management structure of Nintendo of Europe has been finalised. Luciano Pereña succeeds Stephan Bole as Chairman of the Board, CEO and President of Nintendo of Europe. Frank Rittinghaus will be the new Managing Director of European Marketing & D2C Business. The company has now completed the reorganisation of By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
The Uniliga teams play for the title of University Champion in the final in front of an audience. © Uniliga Esports Uniliga Finals at Xperion Hamburg September will see the offline finals of Uniliga, Germany's premier student gaming league. On the 14 September, the summer season of the Uniliga will reach its highlight with the finals in Valorant and League of Legends. For the first time, the finals will be held at the newly By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
