Last year's Africa Games Week took place in Cape Town as well. © Africa Games Week Events Africa Games Week in Cape Town Takes Place in December At the start of the Southern Hemisphere's summer months, Africa Games Week comes to Cape Town from 2-4 December 2024. The event aims to foster understanding of Africa’s gaming scene internationally in its seventh year. Africa Games Week, the continent's most important games industry event By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The Belgian Game Awards 2023 © BIS, Belgian Game Awards Business The Belgian Game Awards 2024 Nominees The Belgian Game Awards 2024 will be presented on 18 October in Brussels, and now the nominations have been announced. Larian Studios' Baldur's Gate 3 has 'only' been nominated for three awards. Flemish Games Association and BelgianGames want to showcase Belgian game developers' creativity By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Denk / Super Crowd Business Christian Denk Joins Polaris Team as Brand Partnership Consultant PlayStation GSA veteran Christian Denk joins Hamburg company Super Crowd as Brand Partnership Consultant for the Polaris Convention 2025. Denk has consulted about event and esport related topics for many companies, among them Tencent's Level Infinite and Capcom Germany. Super Crowd is getting reinforcement for its Polaris Convention: By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, presents the Esports World Cup Club Championship Trophy to Mosaad AlDossary, Co-Founder and Chairman of Falcons Esports, at the inaugural Esports World Cup closing ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, August 25. Joining them on stage is (Left to Right) Grant Rousseau, Director of Esports and Operations at Falcons Esports, Muhammed Almutairi, General Director at Falcons Esports, Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, Saudi Minister of Sport, and President of the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and Ralf Reichert, CEO of the Esports World Cup Foundation. © SPA 4 Esports Esports World Cup Attracts More Than 500 Million Viewers and Over 2 Million Visitors Last weekend saw the end of both gamescom 2024 and the Esports World Cup. The esports event attracted more than 500 million viewers and over 2 million on-site visitors. In July and August 2025 the event will return to Riyadh. The Esports World Cup Foundation, the organisation responsible for hosting By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© AWE EU 2024 Business AWE EU 2024 XR Conference and Expo in Vienna The Augmented World Expo, AWE EU 2024, will take place in Vienna at the end of October. The event aims to bring together experts in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality from a range of sectors, including gaming. AWE (Augmented World Expo), the European conference and exhibition for Augmented By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
The audience at the Keynote Stage. © devcom Business devcom Breaks All Records at New Location This year's devcom at the new Confex in Cologne broke all previous records by a considerable margin. The number of participants increased by 45 per cent. The date for next year's event has already been set. The devcom Developer Conference 2024, which was held at Confex By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Sebastian Heße (left), representing Critical Rabbit, held the winning pitch. GaHa games took the youth prize. © GamesMarkt Business Critical Rabbit Wins European Game Night 2024 At the traditional European Game Night organised by Spielfabrique, NRW. Global Business, Europe’s Heartbeat Northrhine-Westfalia and Business France on devcom Tuesday, Critical Rabbit won the pitch contest. It is the third year the main award goes to Cologne. The honorary youth award went to GaHa Games, from Germany as By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The winners of the 2024 devcom Indie Awards. © devcom Events devcom Indie Awards go to Germany, USA and Saudi Arabia At yesterday's opening dinner event for devcom, the Indie Awards have been given to four studios, among them Munich professor Christoph Minnameier for Dungeons of Dreadrock and Starvania from Saudi Arabia. The results of the speaker's survey have also been revealed. The devcom Developer Conference 2024 By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Super Crowd Business Polaris Convention Announces Business Day The third Polaris Convention by Super Crowd and Hamburg Messe this October will now feature a business day for the first time. Tickets are currently available for 71 euros, just below double the price of a consumer ticket. The Polaris Convention in Hamburg, which will take place for the third By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Open Air Kino Köln Business Open Air Gaming Event Opens in the gamescom Evenings Keep the party going - will be the motto of the Open Air Gaming Event by Open Air Kino Köln, Netgear, Nvidia, Systemtreff, Palit and Youcook. Each gamescom consumer day after 18:00, the Rheinauhafen will be transformed into a gaming party with play stations, influencers and a big cinema By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Nexus Business Nexus Nerd Rock Festival 2025 Combines Rock Concerts and Gaming Expo for the First Time With a new concept in July 2025, the Nexus Nerd Rock Festival wants to bring rock and metal concerts, gaming and a Medieval market together in Leipzig. The festival emerged from the Nexo - Nerd Expo in 2022, then without the music aspect. Leipzig's gets a new event By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Bitfall Studios are the winners of the evening. © GDD Business Bitfall Wins Big at German Dev Days Indie Awards 2024 Four prices go to Bitfall Studios and joint-copublishers Instinct3 and Stray Fawn at the German Dev Days. Dieter Schoeller, CEO of HeadUp, gets introduced into the Hall of Fame. More awards go to Munich and Düsseldorf. Yesterday’s ceremony of the German Dev Days Indie Awards at the German Dev By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
