© CD Projekt Products CD Projekt Red and Trigger Announce Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 At Anime Expo, Polish game developer CD Projekt and Japanese anime studio Trigger jointly announced a second instalment of their Netflix anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. CD Projekt Red is thus demonstrating how important it is to the Polish game developer to extend its complex game worlds into other media, especially By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Bandai Namco Products Bandai Namco Unveils New My Hero Academia Game at Summer Showcase At its Summer Showcase, Bandai Namco revealed news about more than a dozen games, mostly content updates. The biggest new announcement was My Hero Academia: All's Justice. Namco Bandai announced My Hero Academia: All's Justice with a video from producer Aoba Miyazaki, who presented the first By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Plaion Products Plaion Lets Players Sing on Switch 2 Plaion has confirmed that it will release an updated version of its karaoke software Let's Sing this year. Although there will be no dedicated Switch 2 version, the Switch version will be compatible with the new console. In terms of content, Let's Sing 2026 once again By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
In 2024, the Indie Booth Arena was one of the main attractions for many visitors to gamescom. © Indie Arena Booth 2024, Rolf Otzipka Products Indie Arena Booth Announces Line-Up for Gamescom 2025 More than 200 studios from 39 countries will be represented at the Indie Arena Booth at gamescom in 2025. The 2,037.5 square metres have been filled with the help of numerous partners, sponsors and publishers Publishers such as Neowiz, Raw Fury, PM Studios and ESDigital will be using By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
StarVaders © Pengonauts, Playworks and Joystick Ventures Products StarVaders With so many roguelike deck-building games out there, it's hard for a game in this genre to stand out. However, StarVaders achieves this with its clever design, variety, and colourful presentation. It offers a wild mix of mecha roguelike deck-building and tactical shoot-'em-up. In StarVaders, players By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© Pixabay/Pexels Products Trollgames and Thoughtfish Receive Federal Funding The number of approved funding applications and thus the total amount of federal funding for games in 2025 continues to rise. Around €400,000 will go to Trollgames and Thoughtfish. This means that a total of 14 applications or partial applications from 2025 have been successful so far. The Berlin By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Broken Arrow © Slitherine Products Broken Arrow This is by far the biggest release yet from UK-based strategy games publisher Slitherine: Broken Arrow, from Steel Balalaika. This real-time modern warfare tactics game has already sold over 150,000 copies during the Advanced Access period. Slitherine's success with Broken Arrow was evident from the outset, with By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
© Zockrates Laboratories Products Zockrates Laboratories Releases Ruffy and the Riverside German indie studio Zockrates Laboratories from Nuremberg and US publisher Phiphen Games have released Ruffy and the Riverside. This hand-drawn 3D platformer took over seven years to develop. The project has also received multiple grants. The hand-drawn 3D platformer Ruffy and the Riverside is launched on PC (Steam and Epic By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Dorothee Erpenstein, Managing Director FFF Bayern © FFF Bayern Products Bavaria is Funding XR Projects with €390,000 At the latest FFF Bavaria funding meeting for XR, a total of seven applications were approved. The projects receiving support demonstrate why it makes sense to promote XR as a separate category, as it is neither film nor gaming. Five production grants and two project development grants – that is the By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant © Deck13 Spotlight and Umami Tiger Products Expansion of Chained Echoes Is Planned for Early August 2025 Deck13 Spotlight and Umami Tiger, the newly founded studio of Matthias Linda, will release Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant on 7 August 2025 for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Chained Echoes: Ashes of Elrant offers players a new land to explore, over 40 new By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Blindflug Studios Products Blindflug Studios' Ground of Aces Launches in Early Access in July Swiss-Polish indie developer Blindflug Studios has announced the release date for its base-building strategy game, Ground of Aces. The game will be available on PC and Mac via Early Access on 10 July 2025. In Ground of Aces, players take command of an airbase during World War II. They must By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
