© 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
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella © 2017 Microsoft Business Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Reaffirms Gaming Strategy and Plans to Invest More In Microsoft's annual report, CEO Satya Nadella reaffirmed the current Xbox strategy. He said that the company now has 20 franchises that have generated over $1 billion in lifetime revenue and will continue to invest in games and studios. On the one hand, Microsoft will continue to produce By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media / Felix Falk, Managing Director of game - The German Games Industry Association / Nandita Wegehaupt, Managing Director of the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur © J. Konrad Schmidt / Dirk Mathesius / Die Hoffotografen Business Press Start: Games Founding Grant Opens Application Process Game developers from Germany can now apply for a grant from the "Press Start: Games Foundation Grant" aka "Press Start: Gründungsstipendium Games" until 17 November 2024. Individual applications and team applications of up to three people are possible. Game developers from Germany can now apply for By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Axon Flux Business Under the Hood: Early Prototype of Axon Flux's Cactus In our regular GamesMarkt series In Development, game studios present pictures of what's going on under the hood in their game making process. This time, Axon Flux shows an early prototype of Cactus and explains their process of finding the fun in a game project. By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
The business lounge was once again sponsored by Munich agency Marchsreiter Communications and brought warm food to the starved business attendees. © All pictures of not otherwise stated: GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business Impressions from Game Industry Conference 2024 By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
The 11 bit team on site announced more content for This War of Mine coming for the 10 year anniversary. The money will go to charity. © GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business CEEGA & Amnesty International Honour 11 bit, Larian and Indies At yesterday's Central & Eastern European Game Awards on Game Industry Conference, Croteam won Best Game for Talos Principle 2 and took home the Design award as well. Amnesty International partnered with the award show to honour Larian and 11 bit for effort and representation of human rights By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
