Jakob Wössner joins MFG Digital Culture. © MFG Business Jakob Wössner joins MFG Digital Culture for Museums and Serious Games The funding agency MFG Baden-Württemberg has employed Jakob Wössner in the Digital Culture track: He will work with museums on projects that also involve serious games and gamification. The southwestern German funding agency MFG Baden-Württemberg welcomes a new team member: Jakob Wössner is newly employed in the area of Digital By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
A record number of attendees visited Game Industry Conference 2024. © GIC Business Game Industry Conference Ends 2024 With Record Numbers Game Industry Conference has brought 3290 attendees to Poland's largest game B2B expo, a new visitor record. On yesterday’s Sunday, 27 October 2024, the 17th Game Industry Conference (GIC) closed its doors in Poznan, Poland. And after it overtook Digital Dragons last year to become the biggest By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© game Development Tomorrow's #gamechanger Talk Informs About „Press Start: Gründungsstipendium Games“ After today's opened application process for the „Press Start: Gründungsstipendium Games“, the game association will hold an info panel as a #gamechanger talk tomorrow at 3:30 pm. Guests are Andreas Görgen from Claudia Roth's office and Nandita Wegehaupt, MD of the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur. Tomorrow By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Axon Flux Business In Development: Early Prototype of Axon Flux's Cactus By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
The business lounge was once again sponsored by Munich agency Marchsreiter Communications and brought warm food to the starved business attendees. © All pictures of not otherwise stated: GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business Impressions from Game Industry Conference 2024 By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
The 11 bit team on site announced more content for This War of Mine coming for the 10 year anniversary. The money will go to charity. © GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business CEEGA & Amnesty International Honour 11 bit, Larian and Indies At yesterday's Central & Eastern European Game Awards on Game Industry Conference, Croteam won Best Game for Talos Principle 2 and took home the Design award as well. Amnesty International partnered with the award show to honour Larian and 11 bit for effort and representation of human rights By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Bandai Namco, Giants Software, Ubisoft: The big ones of the industry are all at PGA, playable for consumers. © All pictures: GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business Impressions from Poznan Game Arena 2024 By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
The German delegation to Poland: After a stop in Katowice, they held the German-Polish Summit at GIC 2024. © GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business GIC Industry Summit Brings German and Polish Game Companies Together By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
The organisation board of the Legal Summit and GIC. © GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business Game Industry Conference Law Summit Brings EU Commission and AI Into Focus By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Son and father, developer duo: Charles Cecil (right) and his son David, game designer at Revolution Software. © GamesMarkt, Pascal Wagner Business Charles Cecil: "From a Simple Interface, Complexity Emerges" By Pascal Wagner • 14 min read
Codecks by Riad Djemili, one of the funded tools. © Codecks Business Creative Europe Media: 2.9 Million Euros Funding for Tools From the Game Industry In the current ‘Innovative Tools and Business Models’ funding line, 8.5 million euros are given to ten companies across Europe. 2.915 million euros are going to tools and innovations from the German games and film industry: To Codecks, K5 Media & Investments and Malao. With the ‘Innovative Tools By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© devcom Business Sonia Wojciechowska joins devcom as Business Development Manager The game events GmbH has a new Business Development Manager for devcom: Sonia Wojciechowska has joined the department. She was one of the organisers behind Digital Dragons in Krakow. From Krakow to Cologne: Business Development Manager Sonia Wojciechowska is joining the devcom team at game events GmbH. Wojciechowska was one By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read