© GM Products Microsoft Continues to Outpace Everyone on PlayStation By Stephan Steininger • 3 min read
© Nintendo Business Continuing the Successful Concept in Nintendo's Way By Marcel Kleffmann • 11 min read
© JvM Nerd Products Jung von Matt Nerd and got2b Bring New York's Christopher Street to Roblox To celebrate Pride Month, Jung von Matt Nerd created a Roblox experience for the Henkel brand got2b. As a homage to the origins of the annual Pride marches, the agency transports players back to Christopher Street in New York in 1969. Together with Jung von Matt Nerd (JvM Nerd), got2b By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Nintendo Products Day-One Releases and Upcoming Games for Nintendo Switch 2 The Nintendo Switch 2 is available from today, 5 June 2025. But which first- and third-party games will be available, and which will be released in the coming months? Although Nintendo itself does not have many games available for the Switch 2 launch, there is strong support for the new By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
BPJ - The Musical (left) and Art of Fauna © gm Products Apple Honours Solo Developers from Germany, Austria and Canada as Winners As part of WWDC25, Apple has revealed the finalists and winners of this year's Apple Design Awards. Among them are Philipp Stollenmayer from Germany and Klemens Strasser from Austria, as well as LocalThunk from Canada. Philipp Stollenmayer from Germany has won the Apple Desgn Award in the Innovation By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
King of Blood © Sad Socket, Hooded Horse, Instinct3 Products 9 Kings More than 250,000 units of 9 Kings were sold in the first week of Early Access. This was a huge success for Brazilian developer Sad Socket and the game's publisher, Hooded Horse. It is also the most successful game launch to date for co-publisher Instinct3, which handles By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Let Them Trade © ByteRockers' Games Products Spaceflower and ByteRockers' Launch Let Them Trade in July Let Them Trade, the debut project from Spaceflower and published by ByteRockers' Games, will be released on PC at the end of July. A demo will be available on Steam Next Fest beforehand. The city-building game Let Them Trade will be released for PC on 24 July 2025, announced By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Good Evil Products the Good Evil Brings Rascal's Escape to iOS and Android While the children's jury of the Goldener Spatz festival in Gera and Erfurt is deciding whether the nominated Rascal's Escape by the Good Evil will receive an award, the Cologne-based studio has also launched the title for iOS and Android – with an unusual approach to monetisation. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Nplay CEO Ansgar Blauth / ViewApp CEO Daniel Buda © Nplay / ViewApp Products Nplay and ViewApp Announce Their First Partnered Bus Simulator Nplay Games, the largest German-language YouTube channel dedicated to simulation games, is making its debut as a co-publisher with City Transport Simulator: Bus by ViewApp from Austria. City Transport Simulator: Bus, developed by Austrian studio ViewApp and published in collaboration with Nplay Games, is set to launch on 11 June By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
PandaBee is known for tilt frog (left), Animation Arts for Monolith (right). Images of the new projects funded by MDM are not yet available © GM Products MDM Funds Four Games From Saxony and Saxony Anhalt With 306,000 Euros End of 2024 Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung announced the introduction of a separate funding guideline for games. At the second funding session under the new guidelines, four games projects were awarded a total of 306,000 euros in support. Following the introduction of the new funding guidelines for games, the second decision By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Notifications are still only being issued for applications that were submitted to the former Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. © Steininger Products Further Federal Games Funding Decisions Confirmed Three further funding decisions totalling almost one million euros have been entered in the funding database since our last news item. In addition, the start of the term for Gaming Minds' Project Genesis, which had already been approved in 2023, has been postponed to 2025. The latest positive funding By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
The winners of GamesPreis25 © GamesFestival25 Products Winners of GamesPreis25 Announced A total of ten prizes, including two special prizes, were awarded at the GamesPreis25 Awards as part of the GamesFestival in Munich. The festival is aimed specifically at young talent. The winners of the GamesPreis25 were honoured at this year's GamesFestival. The prize honours outstanding projects by young By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
