© GM Business Microsoft is PlayStation's Top Third-Party Publisher By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Games Ground 2024 © Games Ground GmbH Business Games Ground 2025: Business Days Tickets Available and First Speakers Announced Taking place in Berlin on 13-14 November 2025, the Games Ground 2025 Business Days will bring together industry professionals, creatives and decision-makers for two days of talks, panels and workshops. This announcement also marks the unveiling of the first speakers. The Business Days at Games Ground 2025 will return in By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Andrew Wilson, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts © EA Business EA: Lower Revenue and Net Income in FY2025, Cautious Outlook for FY2026 Despite Battlefield Electronic Arts reported slightly lower revenues and net income for the fiscal year just ended, despite major successes with EA Sports, Sims and Split Fiction. The outlook for 2026 remains cautious, notwithstanding skate. and Battlefield. Electronic Arts has presented its results for the past fiscal year 2025 (April 2024 to By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomes Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his ministers and presents them with their certificates of appointment © Bundesregierung/Guido Bergmann Business Change of Responsibilities Including Games Formally Resolved As was to be expected, the new Federal Chancellor reorganised the responsibilities of the ministries in an organisational decree at the same time as convening the first cabinet meeting. As a result, the Bundesministerium für Forschung Technilogie und Raumfahrt Ministry of Research, Technology and Space is now responsible for games, By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Nordic Game 2024 / Jacob Riis, Program Director and Executive Producer © Nordic Game Business The Nordic Game Conference as A "Gateway to the Nordic Industry" The Nordic region is a major hotspot for game development, and NG25 Spring is where the region's professionals come together. "Our vision has always been for the conference to become a gateway for the "outside" to enter the Nordic Industry," says Jacob Riis, Program By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Geoff van den Ouden & Martine Spaans (BGPI), Christel van Grinsven & JP van Seventer (DGG) Benelux Games Promotional Initiative © Benelux Games Promotional Initiative Business Indigo 2025 Programme Finalised, Over 30 Sessions Announced Camille Marjoux, Brendan Greene, and Fawzi Mesmar are among the speakers at the upcoming Indigo. Despite its familiar concept, this year marks a series of firsts for the Dutch B2B event: it will be held over two days, in a new city, and under a new organising body. However, the By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Gamers Heaven Initiator Nikolaus Staudacher © Viktor Klein Business Gamers Heaven Returns to the SportZentrum Telfs for the Second Time Tyrol's gaming festival, Gamers Heaven, will take place for the second time on 14 and 15 June 2025 at the SportZentrum Telfs. This time it will be bigger and more interactive. After its successful start last year, the second Gamers Heaven will take place on 14 and 15 By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Margarete Schneider, Project Manager at Gamecity Hamburg © Oliver Reetz Business Portside Game Assembly is About Exchanging Ideas With Like-Minded People By Stephan Steininger • 7 min read
Stephan Steininger, Editor-in-chief GamesMarkt © GamesMarkt Business Gaming Government Germany on the Horizon With Lars Klingbeil as designated Vice-Chancellor, the number of top politicians with an affinity for games continues to rise. Is this the political breakthrough for games as the leading cultural medium in Germany, asks GamesMarkt editor-in-chief Stephan Steininger. No, the designated Chancellor is not known as a passionate gamer. We By Stephan Steininger • 4 min read
SoundTrack_Cologne 2025 © SoundTrack_Cologne 2025 Business SoundTrack_Cologne 2025 Announces Video Games Composers The video games composers taking part in SoundTrack_Cologne 2025, the 22nd edition of the congress, have now been confirmed. Among them are Olivier Derivière, Paul Wolinski, Venus Theory, The Flight and Pieter Schlosser. At SoundTrack_Cologne 2025 (22nd edition), five panels and a masterclass will explore the art, challenges By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Freaks 4U Gaming/ESBD/GamesMarkt Business Further Federal State Associations for Esports to Be Established in Germany Plans to establish esports associations at the state level are progressing in several federal states. According to the ESBD, an association is expected to be founded in Lower Saxony in May, with similar initiatives also taking shape in Saxony and Hamburg. The creation of regional associations at the federal state By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Baudelaire Welch, Senior Narrative Designer, Larian Studios @ Nordic Game 2024 © Nordic Game Business NG25 Spring: Speakers and Programme Finalised More than 170 speakers have confirmed their attendance at Nordic Game 2025 (NG25 Spring) in Malmö. The topics and programme for the conference, which starts in two weeks, have now been finalised. Nordic Game 2025 (NG25 Spring) kicks off in two weeks from 20-23 May 2025. More than 170 speakers By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
