This year, the Level Up Festival in Salzburg will have its own cosplay stage © Lina Jakobi Business Level Up Salzburg to Feature a Dedicated Cosplay Stage for the First Time The Level Up Gaming Festival will take place for the fifth time in Salzburg at the end of June. In addition to an e-sports and a community stage, the 10,000 or so visitors can look forward to a third stage dedicated to cosplay events and shows. More than 10, By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
BlizzCon 2023 © Blizzard Entertainment Events BlizzCon Returns in 2026 Blizzard Entertainment will not be holding its community convention this year. Instead, the next BlizzCon will take place as usual at the Anaheim Convention Center in September 2026. Blizzard Entertainment has announced a new BlizzCon. The in-house and community convention will not return this year, but will instead take place By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© E-Sport Verband Schleswig-Holstein Business Esports State Championships 2025 in Schleswig-Holstein to Become a Community Festival The Esports State Championships (E-Sport Landesmeisterschaften 2025), the largest esports event in Schleswig-Holstein, will become a community festival this year. The event will take place on 31 May and 1 June 2025 at the Holstenhallen Neumünster and will be bigger than ever before. The E-Sport Verband Schleswig-Holstein (EVSH) is developing By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© A Maze. (Archive Picture) Business A Maze. Award Submissions Reach a Record High Two months before the event, the organizers of A Maze. have announced a record number of entries for this year’s award. The nominees will be revealed in the coming days. The shortlist for the A Maze. Festival is set to be announced on March 13. It was originally scheduled By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© DevGAMM Business DevGAMM Gdańsk 2025 Was the Biggest Yet; Bippinbits and btf Win Digital Vikings Awards 2025 The third DevGAMM Gdańsk 2025 welcomed 620 guests, making it the largest event in the series held in Poland to date. Bippinbits and btf also won awards at the Digital Vikings Awards 2025. With 620 attendees from 35 countries, the third DevGAMM in Poland was the biggest yet - " By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Palais Am Funkturm © Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Business Deutscher Computerspielpreis Gala at the Palais Am Funkturm and During #GamesSpringBerlin The award ceremony for the Deutscher Computerspielpreis 2025 (German Computer Game Award) will take place at the prestigious Palais am Funkturm - and for the first time there will be a nominees' lunch with the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner. Spotlight Games Berlin, the media.net Matchmaking Brunch By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Marilena Cassetta, Jan Halwe, Astrid Gooding, Uke Bosse © BGF & private Business Jury and Host for the Baltic Games Fest Awards Are Set Jan Halwe from ByteRockers' Games, Marilena Cassetta from Crytek and Astrid Gooding from Terminal3 are the jury for the Baltic Games Fest Awards. The awards ceremony will be hosted by Uke Bosse. The Baltic Games Fest (BGF), which will take place on 11 to 12 April 2025 at the By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Pitch Level Up 2025 © Jan-Marius Komorek Business Over 60 Mentoring Sessions at Pitch Level Up 2025, Plus Expert Talks and Peer-to-Peer Reviews On 20 February, Gamecity Hamburg hosted its annual Pitch Level Up event, where gaming experts give 1:1 feedback on game pitches. Participants came not only from Hamburg, but also from Cologne and Bavaria. The fourth edition of Gamecity Hamburg's Pitch Level Up took place on 20 February. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Christiane Gehrke, Senior Event Communication & Sales Manager at Factory-C © Factory-C Business Home of Indies at gamescom 2025 Keeps Growing Even more space, even more variety for indie games: The Home of Indies at gamescom 2025 is growing to 440 square metres this year and bookings are now open. Factory-C, the Berlin-based communications agency specializing in gaming and esports events, is returning to gamescom with Home of Indies. Now in By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Stefan Marcinek, CEO of Assemble Entertainment and Organiser of the GermanDevDays © GDD / Assemble Entertainment Business GermanDevDays Announces Location and Free Exhibitor Tables GermanDevDays will return to Frankfurt for the seventh time in July 2025, and the venue has now been confirmed. Twelve exhibitor tables will again be made available free of charge to independent teams and developers. The location for GDD - GermanDevDays 2025 is now confirmed. As in 2018, 2019, 2023 By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Avowed © Xbox Game Studios Events Avowed Launch Event at the Xperion in Hamburg The next launch event for a triple-A game will take place at the Xperion in Hamburg. Xbox will be celebrating the launch of Avowed at the venue on 18 February. Following the launch events for Sid Meier's Civilization VII in Hamburg and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 in Berlin, By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Jasmin Oestreicher, CEO of Instinct3 © Instinct3 Business Instinct3 Presents 2025 Publishing Line-up Live for the First Time On 18 February 2025, Instinct3 will present this year's publishing line-up for the first time live at the I3 Indie Expo at Xperion Berlin - and on Twitch. The I3 Indie Expo will provide an insight into selected new indie titles to be published by Instinct3 and will By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
