© game Business Multi-Platinum Award for EA, Three Other Awards for Focus, Nintendo and Ubisoft EA Sports FC 25 has sold over 600,000 copies in Germany, winning a Multi-Platinum game Sales Award. Three other awards go to Star Wars Outlaws, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. In September 2024, game - the German Games Industry Association By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
The Space Platform is the main hub between planets. © Wube Software Products Factorio: Space Age Whereas in Factorio you only had to exploit one planet and turn it into a massive automatized factory, in Factorio: Space Age you can actually exploit four more planets. The scope of the expansion is more like a true sequel. So the game that started the automation genre is getting By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read
Felix Rieger and Michael Raith © Games/Bavaria website Business Felix Rieger and Michael Raith Join Games/Bavaria Games/Bavaria welcomes two new members to its team. Felix Rieger is the new Event and Project Manager of the Gamerei (the Bavarian games house) and Michael Raith is the new Junior Project Manager. Felix Rieger and Michael Raith have joined the Games/Bavaria team. Rieger has been working for By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Cologne 2024: 39,000 visitors came to the Lanxess Arena over the weekend, while 1,050,000 viewers (according to esportscharts.com) watched the live stream from around the world. This made the IEM Cologne 2024 the most watched ESL Pro Tour event of the year. Team Vitality won the Grand Final. © ESL Faceit Group Esports Intel Extreme Masters Returns to Cologne in 2025, Moving Further Away From gamescom The Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Cologne will take place at a greater distance from gamescom in 2025. In addition, the ESL Faceit Group has announced a financial contribution of over $22m to the Counter-Strike ecosystem in 2025 and 2026. ESL Faceit Group (EFG) has announced details of the ESL Pro By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Xbox Publishing Xbox Partner Preview: All the Games and Announcements The Xbox Partner Preview featured 15 games in just under 25 minutes. Remedy showed the Control spin-off FBC: Firebreak, Bloober Team presented their new survival horror game and Krafton unveiled Subnautica 2. But Phasmophobia, Mouse: P.I. For Hire and Blindfire also made an appearance. Last night, Microsoft presented a By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© Pullup Business Record Revenues for Pullup Entertainment With Space Marine 2 Pullup Entertainment, formerly Focus Entertainment, has announced record revenues. Thanks to Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, the French company has generated more revenue in a single quarter than in its previous record year of 2022/23. Space Marine 2 has now been played by more than 4.5 million By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© Don't Nod Business Don't Nod Restructures Following Underperformance of Recent Games Don't Nod's revenues have been hit by the commercial underperformance of recent launches in an "extremely competitive and concentrated market". As a result, the French company has announced a reorganisation initiative to get the business back on track. This could affect up to 69 By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Hendrik Ruhe and Malte Froehlich © Eintracht Spandau Esports Eintracht Spandau Hires National Small Field Football Coach for Baller League Ahead of the draft for the third season of the Baller League, Eintracht Spandau have announced several transfers. The influencer club has signed the current national small field football coach, Malte Froehlich. Spandau have also secured three key players early in the season. Hans Sarpei will take on the sports By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
MindsEye © IOI Partners, Build A Rocket Boy Publishing IO Interactive Enters the World of Publishing and Signs Deal With Build a Rocket Boy IO Interactive has launched its third-party publishing division, IOI Partners. Its first worldwide deal is already a major one, with Leslie Benzies' Build A Rocket Boy to publish and distribute MindsEye. The game is a cinematic AAA story-driven action-adventure thriller. With Hitman 3 respectively Hitman: World of Assassination, Denmark& By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
IO Interactive is best known for Hitman. © IO Interactive Business Why IO Interactive Is Teaming up With Build a Rocket Boy By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media / Felix Falk, Managing Director of game - The German Games Industry Association / Nandita Wegehaupt, Managing Director of the Foundation for Digital Games Culture © J. Konrad Schmidt / Dirk Mathesius / Die Hoffotografen Business New German-wide Games Funding Grant For New Studios The Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, has announced a nationwide games start-up grant called "Press Start: Games Founding Grant" or "Press Start: Gründungsstipendium Games" in German. It is an 18-month programme with a grant, workshops and coaching. The application phase will By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Screenshots from the reel on Instagram © lifeatking Business King Opens New Office in Berlin A new office on the banks of the Spree: King has opened an office in Berlin. The mobile games company behind the Candy Crush franchise has been operating in the German capital for ten years. King opened a new office in Berlin last month, about ten years after opening its By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
