© Medianet Business Medianet Berlin-Brandenburg Joint Stand at gamescom 2025 This year, medianet will once again organise a joint stand for Berlin-Brandenburg at gamescom 2025. Interested studios can present themselves together with more than ten other companies in the Business area from 20 to 22 August. As in previous years, medianet will organize a joint stand for Berlin-Brandenburg at gamescom By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Bastian Schweinsteiger and Gerard Piqué © Kings League Business When Football Meets Gaming Creators By Stephan Steininger • 3 min read
Patrick Stude, PR & Communications Manager, Central and Eastern Europe Sandisk © Photogenika im Westend Business Patrick Stude Joins Sandisk as PR & Communications Manager After eight years with Marchsreiter Communications, Patrick Stude has taken up a new position with Sandisk Germany - known for its flash storage and memory solutions, also for gaming. As PR & Communications Manager, he will shape and coordinate communications across GSA, UK, NL, PL and CZ. Sandisk Germany has By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Screenshot Business Market Exploration Trip to France and Paris Game Biz The AHK France is organizing a market exploration trip to Paris at the end of October. In addition to meetings with potential partners, the programme also includes a visit to Paris Game Biz. This October, SMEs in the German games industry will once again have the opportunity to take part By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Koelnmesse GmbH, Bernd Lauter Business Thailand Unveiled as Official Partner Country for gamescom 2025 Koelnmesse and game have announced Thailand as this year’s official partner country for gamescom. The Southeast Asian nation is a flourishing gaming market and now also the new home of gamescom asia. 2025 marks a special year for the relationship between gamescom and Thailand. Just a few weeks ago, By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Melanie Klose, Director of Marketing, PR and Media / Klemens Kreuzer, CEO © THQ Nordic Business Melanie Klose Appointed Director of Marketing, PR, and Media at THQ Nordic Melanie Klose has been appointed Director of Marketing, PR and Media at THQ Nordic. She succeeds Philipp Brock, who has moved to lead the newly created Community & Communications department. With effect from 1 April 2025, Melanie Klose has taken the helm of all external communications at THQ Nordic. In By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
The Xperion in Hamburg is one of three dedicated gaming event and sales areas from MediaMarktSaturn to date © MediaMarktSaturn Business TakeTV, MediaMarktSaturn and Beans Organise Games Side Event at OMR On the day before the start of the OMR Festival in Hamburg, Level Up! will take place at Xperion as an official side event. It is organised by MediaMarktSaturn, TakeTV, and Beans Entertainment. The OMR Festival – OMR stands for Online Marketing Rockstars – is one of the must-attend events for the By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© TIGS Business Tokyo Indie Games Summit Doubles Attendance to Over 23,000 With the Tokyo Indie Games Summit, another standout business event is emerging in Japan, where over 200 curated indie games were exhibited. An award was also presented for the first time. A few weeks after the third Tokyo Indie Games Summit (TIGS), organizer Phoenixx has now released the official figures By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Lana Bokay-Poltavets, Senior Project Manager at War Robots, and Boris Burangulov, Executive Producer at War Robots, write about their experiences and lessons learnt in the key mobile gaming market of China © My.games Business Working with Chinese Teams: Cultural Differences and How They Impact Collaboration China is a gaming market no developer or publisher aiming for success in mobile gaming can afford to ignore. In a series of three guest articles, Lana Bokay-Poltavets and Boris Burangulov from My.games share their insights and lessons learned from marketing games in China. This one is about working By Team Gamesmarkt • 5 min read
© Megabit Products Grit and Valor - 1949 In Grit and Valor - 1949 from Milky Tea Studios and Megabit Publishing, players control dieselpunk mechs through an alternate history. These feel like upgradeable towers sent into real-time tactical battles over beautiful dioramas, held together by a roguelite progression system. Grit and Valor - 1949 is set in an By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Stephan Vogler, one of the co-founders and managing directors at CipSoft / Benedikt Grindel, Managing Director, Ubisoft Blue Byte © CipSoft / Ubisoft Business CipSoft Takes Over the Operation of the Settlers Online From Ubisoft CipSoft will take over the lead operation and further development of the browser game The Settlers Online from Ubisoft Blue Byte. The Settlers Online development team will continue its work in CipSoft's new office in Düsseldorf. The Settlers Online has a new home. CipSoft will to lead development By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Nintendo Products All Games Announced for Nintendo Switch 2 (so far) Donkey Kong Bananza, Kirby Air Riders and Mario Kart World were the big game announcements from Nintendo for Switch 2. But many third-party developers and publishers have also announced their games for the upcoming Nintendo console. During the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, a number of new games from Nintendo and By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
