© South West Vision Business SimRacing Expo Takes Another Run at the USA SimRacing Expo is planning a spin-off event in the United States in May 2026. An initial attempt to hold the event in the United States in 2025 was cancelled. Instead of Austin, the event will now take place in Charlotte, a city with a passion for motorsport. The choice of By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Steam Business Steams New Adult Game Ban Apparently Not Implemented in Germany With Valve bowing to the demands of credit card companies and banks, adult game developers have already begun to scout for ways to circumvent recent bans. Germany’s unique situation meanwhile might have prevented the inplementation of the new rules for now. With a recent change in their publishing guidelines, By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
EA Sports FC 25 / Assassin's Creed Shadows / Minecraft © Electronic Arts / Ubisoft / Nintendo, U&I Ent., Sony, Microsoft Business The Best-Selling Physical Games in Europe in the First Half of 2025 In the first half of 2025, no game sold more copies in physical retail in Europe than EA Sports FC 25. This was followed by Assassin's Creed Shadows and Minecraft. However, in Germany and Austria, a Nintendo game topped the charts. EA Sports FC 25 was the best-selling By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© Scryfall/Cardmarket Business TCG Marketplace Cardmarket Cooperates with Scryfall Berlin-based trading card market leader Cardmarket has announced deeper integration with Magic: The Gathering search engine Scryfall through a contractual agreement. The contract is based on recent database improvements and serves as a test run for similar cooperations. Europe’s biggest trading card game online marketplace Cardmarket, based in Berlin, By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Live-Action Assassin's Creed Series © Ubisoft / Netflix Business Netflix Greenlights Live-Action Assassin's Creed Series In 2020, Ubisoft and Netflix announced an agreement to develop content based on the Assassin's Creed franchise. Five years later, the first live-action series has officially been confirmed. Netflix has given the green light to a live-action series based on the Assassin's Creed video game franchise, By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Felix Falk, Managing Director of game - The German Games Industry Association © Dirk Mathesius/game Business Game MD Felix Falk: 'Brake on Funding' Released As expected, the German industry association game reacted positively and with relief to the publication of the new call for federal funding. Nevertheless, a combination of tax incentives for games and a funding fund remains the goal. It did not take long for the game - The German Games Industry By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Dorothee Bär Tobias Koch Business New Call for Proposals Restarts Federal Games Funding in Germany The suspension of applications for federal funding for games has been lifted. The responsible Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space has published a second call for proposals and modified important regulations. Multi-year projects are once again possible, and the maximum grant amount has been increased. Just a few weeks By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Artex Business Jan Klose Revives Artex and Collaborates with Pithead and Other Indies Former Deck13 founder and CEO Jan Klose has launched a new indie publisher called Artex Software. At the same time, publishing partnerships with Pithead, Sigma Unit, Freedom Burger Games, Borb Games, Weltenwandler and Sebastian Grünwald were announced. The name of the new publisher, Artex Software, is not entirely new. At By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Superlevel relaunches as Debuff. © Superlevel/Debuff Business German Games Site Superlevel Relaunches as Debuff Games Magazine Realigning itself into magazine-styled half-yearly publication, the independent games site Superlevel rebrands into Debuff magazine. Owners Christina Kutscher, Florian Zandt and Daniel Ziegener want to continue to pay writers fairly through a subscription model. The German independent video game publication Superlevel is rebranding and restructuring itself, becoming a new twice-yearly By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The Congress Centre North is located at the north entrance of the Cologne Exhibition Centre. © Koelnmesse Business TaKeTV Organises First 'across industries' Event for Brands and Agencies gamescom – across industries is another side event of gamescom taking place 2025 for the first time. Organised by gamescom LAN partner TaKeTV, gamescom across industries builds bridges between the industry and agencies and branded goods, giving them easier access to the world of gaming and its players. One of the By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Sabrina Ratih, COO of G2 Esports // G2 X Smiley Streetwear Collection © G2 Business G2 Teams Up With Smiley on Streetwear Collection G2 has announced another fashion collaboration, this time with the lifestyle brand Smiley. The limited-edition capsule collection marks Smiley's first ever collaboration with an esports brand. Berlin-based entertainment and esports brand G2 is expanding its lifestyle collection with a collaboration with the lifestyle brand Smiley. This limited-edition drop, By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
These games from Bavaria can be seen at the Indie Arena Booth (from left): Train Jumble, Tiny Auto Knights, Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker, The Games You Make and Burn with Me © GM Products Games/Bavaria Brings These Five Studios to the Indie Arena Booth Nozomu Games, Gentle Troll Entertainment, Jumpy Bit, Mumpitz Games and Emerge Entertainment are the Bavarian studios that will be exhibiting at the Indie Arena Booth at gamescom as part of their partnership with Games/Bavaria. This was announced in a social media post by Games/Bavaria. Games/Bavaria is one By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
