Wiebke Wiesner and State Secretary for the Arts Arne Braun (MFG). People Wiebke Wiesner Becomes New MD of MFG Baden-Württemberg Wiebke Wiesner will become the new managing director of Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (MFG). She will succeed Carl Bergengruen on July 1, 2026. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Horses of Hoofprint Bay (left; Thogli Studios) and It's Always Happy at Chubby's (Pixel Maniacs) have been announced recently. Products Cozy or Spooky? Two Bavarian Game Announcements Have it All Two Bavarian game studios, Thogli Games from Fürstenfeldbruck and Pixel Maniacs from Nuremberg, have announced their new game projects around Halloween: A horse game homage, including horse game expert Alice Ruppert, and a horror culinary quest respectively. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Pan-European Virtual Worlds Association Founded The private public partnership association VWA has been founded with support from Horizon Europe to bring extended reality in the EU forward. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The winning project on the expert level: Hydropolis by Maximilian. Campus Research Ministry Awards Future Energy Ideas In Minecraft The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space has awarded 14 young Minecraft builders for their future visions around sustainability and energy production in this year’s Science Year. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Katharina Popp joins Owlcat Games as PR Manager (Popp; Owlcat) People Katharina Popp Joins Owlcat Games as PR Manager PR expert Katharina Popp started work as PR Manager for Owlcat Games this November. She has been at Marchsreiter for the last seven and a half years. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© DevGamm Business Madeira Games Summit 2025 Publishes Full Schedule The leadership event Madeira Games Summit on 3-4 November before DevGamm Portugal has released the full speaker lineup. Key highlights include fireside chats with Maria Sayans (CEO, ustwo games) and Mariina Hallikainen (CEO, Colossal Order), a keynote by Chris Petrovic of FunPlus and more. Madeira Games Summit, the management event By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Thomas Rössig (left) and Thorsten Hamdorf are looking for a third founder. © Rössig; Hamdorf Business Hamdorf and Rössig Aim to Found “Indie Studio Builder” Playing Mantis CEO Thomas Rössig and marketing veteran Thorsten Hamdorf are looking to found a "butler" company for indies, helping bring games from concept to release as fractional CxOs for these studios. They are currently seeking a third founder. Thomas Rössig, CEO and founder of Playing Mantis Studio, By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
AppMagic CEO Max Samorukov. © AppMagic People AppMagic CEO Max Samorukov: "PC Market Lacks a True, Unified Analytics Solution" With data company AppMagic's new Steam Analysis launching this month, we talked to CEO Max Samorukov about the difficulties of breaking into data acquisition on different platforms, the history of AppMagic and developer's needs for consistent data for their platforms of choice. This October, data aggregation By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
Current Amigo leadership Joachim Ulbricht (left) and Alexander Jost. © Amigo Business Amigo's US Subsidiary Shuts Down Due to Tariffs Amigo Games, the US branch of German board game company Amigo Spiele + Freizeit, ceases operation. CEO Alexander Jost shares that fluctuating production costs, especially after Trump's tariffs, made the company unviable. Amigo Games Inc., the US subsidiary of German board game company Amigo Spiel + Freizeit GmbH, is closing By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Hidden Trap, Mellow Games Products Hidden Trap Publishes Cologne Indie Game Blueberry Mellow Games alias Mel Taylor from Cologne has found a publisher for psychological indie game Blueberry: Hidden Trap from Spain, the publishers of Tiny Lands 2. Cologne indie game Blueberry by Mellow Games has a publisher: Hidden Trap, the publisher behind Tiny Lands 2. The Spanish company has worked as By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Automation, automation, automation. © Metaroot Products The Farmer Was Replaced Swiss automation game The Farmer Was Replaced by solo dev Timon Herzog and indie publisher Metaroot combines meditative automated farming with hardcore Python-like coding. What sounds unintuitive has become a great success. The Farmer Was Replaced by Swiss publisher Metaroot and swiss developer Timon Herzog has seen remarkable numbers for By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Mobidictum Business Mobidictum Conference 2025 Brings Mobile Experts to Istanbul On 21 and 22 October in Istanbul, mobile gaming experts meet for Mobidictum conference in Istanbul. The full program and speaker lineup are online now. Mobidictum Conference 2025, the Turkish games business event focused on mobile games, will take place in Istanbul on October 21-22. The organisers expect over 2000 By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
