Participants of the 4th Games Summit in North Rhine-Westphalia © Land NRW / Robin Teller Business NRW Increases Games Funding Budget for 2025 to Over 6m Euros At the fourth games summit in North Rhine-Westphalia, Media Minister Nathanael Liminski did not hold back with his criticism of games policy in Berlin. At the same time, he made it clear that NRW is not only maintaining its games funding of over 5 million euros, but that it will By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© InnoGames Development InnoGames Welcomes 130 Participants to IGJAM One of the most established game jams in Germany, the 15th InnoGames Game Jam (IGJAM), took place on the second weekend of November. InnoGames welcomed 130 developers to its in-house event venue, where 24 games were created in just 48 hours. The theme of this year’s IGJAM was " By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Unphased on his third trip to the stage: Sven Ahlgrimm receives the Excellence in Audio award for Oddada. © GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Development Oddada and Dungeons of Dreadrock 2 Succeed at DevGamm Awards 2024 At the DevGamm Awards 2024, Manor Lords won the Grand Prize of the twelve categories collectively endowed with 100,000 euros in prize money. Star of the evening however was Oddada developer Sven Ahlgrimm, who received two prizes on behalf of Christoph Minnameier's Dungeons of Dreadrock 2 and By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Björn Weinbrandt © ©Björn Weinbrandt Business Gamecity Hamburg Unveils New B2B Conference: Portside Game Assembly The new conference format will debut on June 27, 2025, in and around the Port of Hamburg. Participants will need to be seaworthy, as the main conference will be held on a ship sailing through Hamburg’s harbour. According to Gamecity Hamburg organizers, the concept for the Portside Game Assembly By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Kissaki Studios Development NRW Studio Kissaki Releases Mindbug Online Kissaki Studios from NRW has released a big one: Mindbug Online, the free to play PC and mobile version of Richard Garfields dueling card game. The board game license lies with Nerdlab Games from Bavaria. Kissaki Studios from Salzkotten in North Rhine-Westphalia has released the game they have worked on By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Pixabay/Pexels Development Bavaria Provides Additional €500.000 in Funding for Nine Game Projects At a meeting on November 12, the FFF Bayern awarding committee approved funding of over €500,000 for nine game projects. This brings Bavaria's total funding for game projects this year to more than €3 million. This was the third and final round of funding decisions in Bavaria By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Gentle Troll Development Gentle Troll Releases Tavern Talk: Tempest Tantrum DLC The successful cosy game Tavern Talk from Würzburg studio Gentle Troll has received its first DLC, Temper Tantrum, yesterday. The game currently stands at very positive Steam ratings, the DLC will release on Switch as well later on. Gentle Troll has also hinted at their next project. Yesterday, the first By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Xsolla Development Xsolla Launches Xsolla ZK and 'Digital Backpack' for In-Game Items Video game commerce company Xsolla is launching Xsolla ZK, a blockchain solution powered by ZKsync, alongside a 'digital backpack' for game developers, item creators, and gaming infrastructure providers to store and manage in-game items. Xsolla has announced the launch of Xsolla ZK, a blockchain-based solution developed using ZKsync By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
PandaBee founders Gustav Mehner (left) and Julien Schillinger at GDC. © PandaBee Business PandaBee Studios: From Leipzig with Love – and Rage By Pascal Wagner • 5 min read
© SwissGames Development SwissGames Opens Calls for gamescom and She Got Game 2025 SwissGames is opening their call for application for the delegation to gamescom 2025 in Cologne as well as for the mentoring programme She Got Game. The deadlines are in January for gamescom and in December for She Got Game. For the latter, women from outside Switzerland can apply as well. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© The Rabbit Development The Rabbit 2024 Has Started The Rabbit Indie Games Residency 2024 has started with six teams from Brandenburg (Germany), Chile, Nigeria and the USA. The month-long residency includes a visit to the Games Ground in Berlin. The Rabbit, a month-long residency for independent video game developers, started today and will run until 28 November 2024 By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© SIN events Educational Media Awards Honour Several GSA Indie Games With the Educational Media Awards 2024, SIN - Studio im Netz has honoured not only paedagogic apps, but also a range of titles from the GSA region and one from France. We congratulate Emergo Entertainment, Causa Creations, Microbird, HandyGames, Massive Miniteam and Focus Entertainment for the victory. On 30 October By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
