© Twin Sails Interactive Products Bloomtown: A Different Story With a mix of eerie horror, social sim and monster catching, Bloomtown: A Different Story brings big potential to the cosy gaming space. Many, many social and farming simulations have entered the market in the eight years since Stardew Valley brought back the classic Harvest Moon a.k.a Story By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Paladin Charity Events Paladin Charity Team Starts Off With New Donation Stream for Deepwave The new German charity network Paladin Charity by Manasoup, organised with partners from Gamesground, Games Academy and several gamedev studios, starts of with a charity stream for maritime conservation group Deepwave on 5 October. The indie gamedev network Manasoup Network from Germany has presented a new charity programme together with By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Kind of Art Business Kind of Art Copenhagen Connects Animation, Game Art & VFX From 25-26 October at the Palads Theater in Copenhagen, the second edition of Kind of Art brings experts from Animation, Game Art and VFX together. The event consists of talks and panels, demonstrations of new technology, networking, portfolio reviews and more. The games industry is especially strongly represented in the By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Abylight, SciFunGames Products Exographer A game based on the science of particle physics: Made real by SciFunGames, a new studio emerged from Ecole polytechnique in France. Published by Barcelona stable Abylight, Exographer tries something unique in the metroidvania genre. In a Franco-Spanish cooperation, Barcelona publisher Abylight Studios and Paris studio SciFunGames are releasing Exographer, By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Square Enix Business Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Orchestra World Tour Fills Olympiahalle Munich The official Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Orchestra World Tour by Square Enix had one stop in Germany, at Olympiahalle in Munich on 14 September. Over 4,000 people attended the concert. The only German stop of the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Orchestra World Tour has taken place on 14 September By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© SIE Publishing Sony Airs State of Play Today at Midnight PlayStation's next State of Play showcase will air at midnight in the Central European Timezone. It is expected to be around thirty minutes long. The next State of Play by Sony Interactive Entertainment is broadcast today at midnight CET. The showcase is supposed to be around thirty minutes By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Digital Minister Fabian Mehring has initiated the Funding Finder. © Andreas Gebert Development Funding Finder: Why Games Funding Isn’t in the New Bavarian Search Engine – Yet The new Funding Finder search engine of the Bavarian Digital Ministry doesn't index game funding. At least not yet: According to a Ministry answer to a GamesMarkt query, later updates will incorporate Bavaria's games funding programmes as well. Today, the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© ExP Development ExP Talks Bring VFX Artists to Munich On the next event from ExP – Expert Talks and Pretzels, Sophie Kordes from KingArt games and Florian Smolka from Maschinen-Mensch are sharing their knowledge. The theme of the event on 8 October at the Medien.Bayern offices: VFX. With the second round of their new event series ExP – Expert Talks By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© DevGamm Business First Big Batch of DevGamm Lisbon Speakers Revealed After the reveal of John Romero as headliner of DevGamm Lisbon 2025, more speakers have been set. Among them are Guido Schmidt, Director of Design Rovio, Lorna Power, Head of Community Massive Monster, Arno Schmitz, Technical Art Director Guerrilla and more. DevGamm Lisbon has announced a batch of new speakers, By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Initial blockout in the level tool. The tool can transform the blockout into several styles, like those below. © Pixel Maniacs Development In Development: Level Tools for Pixel Maniac's ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Twitch Business Twitch Drops Dates for TwitchCons 2025 in Europe and North America Then in its tenth year, the TwitchCon will take place from 31 May to 1 June in Rotterdam and from 17 to 19 October in San Diego. At today's opening keynote of TwitchCon NA 2024, CEO Dan Clancy shared details about the coming updates to several systems. At By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© BIG Esports Philips OneBlade Sponsors Berlin International Gaming in Young Player Programme As cooperating partner for Berlin International Gaming's BIG Selecta talent programme, Philips OneBlade is entering esports. From today on until 22 September, a bootcamp with developmental mentoring programme will prepare young players for professional esports careers. Esports association Berlin International Gaming (BIG) has acquired a new sponsor for By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
