Living With The Snow Leopards / La Belle – Die Schöne und die Bombe / Dung Slinger © NowHere Media / LOOKS Filmproduktionen / Bold Beetle Games Business Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Funds Ten Games With a Total of €1.1 Million Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is providing €3.8 million in funding for 25 games, XR and serial format projects. A total of ten game projects will receive funding totalling just under €1.1 million, including those from Torpor Games, Little Bat Games, Windspiel and Windmillhill Games. This was the final New Media By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Boulder Dash World Championship Qualifiers at the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin © BBG Entertainment Esports Boulder Dash World Championship Qualifiers at the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin On 24 July, Germany's best Boulder Dash players will compete at the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin for a chance to qualify for the World Cup, to be held on 23 August at gamescom in Cologne. Another qualifying round will take place at the GAMM Museum in Rome. On 24 By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Still Wakes the Deep © The Chinese Room, Sumo Business The Chinese Room and Sumo Digital Have Parted Ways The UK studio The Chinese Room is now independent again following a management buyout from Sumo Digital. Following a management buyout, The Chinese Room is once again independent, under the leadership of studio head Ed Daly. The studio was founded in 2007 and acquired by Sumo Group, the parent company By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Game Dev Days Graz Business Game Dev Days Graz Announce Date for Tenth Anniversary The tenth Game Dev Days Graz will take place on 4 October at the Technical University of the Austrian city. This year, the Austrian developer meetup Game Dev Days at Technical University Graz is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Before the full programme, the organisers around TU Graz and newly appointed By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
MFG Baden-Württemberg and its shareholders (from left to right): SWR Director General Prof. Dr. Kai Gniffke, Minister President Winfried Kretschmann, State Secretary for the Arts Arne Braun and MFG Managing Director Carl Bergengruen © Maximilian Hörhold Business MFG Baden-Württemberg Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary Around 600 guests are celebrating the 30th anniversary of MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg at the Wagenhallen in Stuttgart. Minister President Winfried Kretschmann gave a speech. MFG Baden-Württemberg celebrated its 30th anniversary with a festive evening at the Wagenhallen in Stuttgart. Around 600 guests, including representatives from politics, culture, film, By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© 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
