© DevGamm Business DevGamm Lisbon Award Registrations Looking for Games The DevGamm Awards are open for game registrations until 30 September. Teams under 50 people are eligible to be nominated for cash prizes of 100,000 dollars in total. The ceremony will be held on 15 November in Cascais, near Lisbon in Portugal. Up until 30 September, developers can still By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The caggtus 2024. © niclass.de Business caggtus 2025: Exhibitor Registration Begins in October, Product Sales at Booths Now Possible The exhibitor registration for caggtus 2025 in Leipzig begins mid-October. For the first time, regular exhibitors are also allowed to sell their own products directly at the booths. From 11 to 13 April 2025, the third iteration of caggtus Leipzig comes back. Now, the date for the coming exhibitor By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Nintendo is no stranger to the Zurich Pop Con - as seen here in 2021. © Zurich Pop Con / Nintendo Business Nintendo Opens Pop-Up Store at Zurich Pop Con & Game Show 2024 Only the second official Nintendo event pop-up store in Europe: The Zurich Pop Con & Game Show has hooked a big one. The Nintendo presence will bring otherwise Japan-exclusive merchandise to the Swiss game festival on 5 and 6 October. The organisers of the Zurich Pop Con & By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Nerdic Business Organisers Finalise NERDICon LE Programme Business talks for trade visitors, tournaments and quiz shows for consumers - the programme for the first NERDICon in Leipzig is being finalised. One of the highlights will be the 'FuckUp Night', where industry professionals will talk about their personal failures and lessons learned. From 19 to 21 September, By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© GamesMarkt/Pascal Wagner Business Dreamlight Labs Tours Piano Gaming Concert Series Through Germany The young gaming and anime concert event agency Dreamlight Labs has recently filled the Künstlerhaus in Munich with 900 people listening to gaming classics on piano. More gaming concerts are planned in Stuttgart this week. With their Gaming Dreamlight piano concert series, young event agency Dreamlight Labs has brought together By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Vienna and Dortmund to host two Genshin Impact benefit concerts in November © HoYoverse Events Two Genshin Impact Benefit Concerts in Vienna and Dortmund This November HoYoverse, the company behind Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero, has announced two benefit concerts to be held in Dortmund and Vienna. Both concerts will be open to the public, with ticket prices starting at under 10 Euros. The proceeds will also be donated. Young musicians will By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
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 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 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 2024 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
