© Gamecity Hamburg Business Gamecity Hamburg Celebrates FLINTA* Games Meetup Mentoring Dinner On 23 September, Gamecity Hamburg marked the two-year anniversary of their FLINTA* meetup with a mentoring dinner. Experts from throughout the industry were matched with mentees in a relaxed setting. On September 23, 2025, Gamecity Hamburg celebrated two years of the FLINTA* Games Meetup with its first-ever FLINTA Games Mentoring By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© DevGamm Events DevGamm Lisbon 2025 Reveals Speaker Lineup From Sandfall to Ubisoft, from Sony to 11 bit studios: DevGamm Lisbon 2025 has revealed their speaker lineup with prolific industry experts such as Paola Velasquez, Raphaël Joffres, Gabriela Siemienkowicz and Nikola Stoyanov. The Portugal event will take place from 6-7 November. The speaker lineup for DevGamm Lisbon, taking place By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Gamecity Hamburg/Nerdic; Wikimedia/Bullenwächter Business Nerdic and Gamecity Hamburg Start Pixels & Popcorn Nerdic and Gamecity Hamburg cooperate on Pixels & Popcorn, bringing three Hamburg games into a cinema. The event will take place on 20 October and be moderated by Dom Schott. KinoGames, the cinema & gaming series of Nerdic, has gotten a new child: With Pixels & Popcorn, Nerdic and Gamecity By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Patricia Sato, Executive Manager at Brazil Games, and Rodrigo Terra, President of Abragames. © Brazil Games, Abragames People Interview: "Brazil has Shown Remarkable Resilience and Adaptability" Home to gamescom latam, massively growing as a production location and as a market and just recently equipped with a new legal framework for games: We interviewed Patricia Sato from Brazil Games and Rodrigo Terra from association Abragames about Brazil's gaming potential. Brazil is not only home to By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
© Hasbro Business Hasbro Launches Third "Women Innovators of Play" Conference For the third time, toy and game company Hasbro is hosting the digital Women Innovators of Play conference and submission Challenge. The event will take place on 9 October 2025. For the third time since 2023, toy and game company Hasbro is hosting its Women Innovators of Play digital conference. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Subotron Campus Subotron Live Pitch Competition Finalists Revealed The five student teams who are selected for the Subotron Live Pitch Competition 2025 have been revealed. Teams from universities of applied science throughout Austria have convinced the jury with their projects and will learn to pitch in a workshop with Jan Halwe of ByteRockers' before pitching in front By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Falko Löffler, one of the speakers at InErGa 2025 © Maria Manneck (Adventure-Treff), Narranauten Business New Leipzig Event InErGa Connects Narrative Experts Last weekend's first InErGa in Leipzig marked the emergence of a new conference for narration experts in games. The event by Narranauten at MacroMedia gathered game writers and narrative designers for a day of talks, workshops and networking. With the debut of the new narrative design conference InErGa By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
The Rocket Beans Founders: Daniel Budiman, Simon Krätschmer and Arno Heinisch (Above, from left to right), Nils Bomhoff and Etienne Gardé (Sitting Left to right). © Marco J. Drews/Rocket Beans Entertainment People Rocket Beans Restructure, Lay Off Parts of The Team Hamburg media company Rocket Beans Entertainment has announced restructuring, laying off an undisclosed number of employees. Content-wise, the company wants to change their live channel approach as well as concentrate more on already successful formats. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Bluesky, various artists Business Bluesky Cracks Down on NSFW Art With a recent change of their guidelines, social network Bluesky is dropping the hammer on certain adult art depictions. Critics compare the move to bans happening on Steam and itch, while pointing out that bans like these can harm other artful expression as well. With a change in their terms By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Dr Nizar Ibrahim (left) and Maxim Markow will moderate the stream. © Instinct3, ZDF Business Instinct3 Brings Terra X to Twitch In a cooperation between ZDF and Instinct3, the influencer agency brings the BBC/ZDF coproduction Terra X to Twitch for the first time in a three hour live plot with streamer Maxim and paleontologist Dr Nizar Ibrahim. The ZDF and agency Instinct3 are cooperating to bring the BBC and ZDF By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The new Starter Set features boardgame implements and several starting scenarios that players can take turn DM'ing for. © Wizards of the Coast Products Dungeons & Dragons Release New Starter Set Format & German Monster Handbook With their newest Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set, Wizards of the Coast is targeting boardgame fans through familiar tabletop setups. At the same time, the Monster Manual is now available in German, making the full handbook trilogy accessible for the GSA countries. Today, Wizards of the Coast has released the By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Ea Products EA Sports FC 26 The coming EA Sports FC 26 is not reinventing the wheel, but brings new control modes suited for single- and multiplayer gaming, updated rosters and a new management mode. With EA Sports FC, Electronic Arts had more than proven that a successful soccer game does not need the full FIFA By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
