Brian Foote, CEO of Fireshine Games © Fireshone Games Business Brian Foote Succeeds James Cato as CEO of Fireshine Games A change at the top of Fireshine Games: The British publisher has appointed Brian Foote as its new CEO, succeeding founder James Cato. Brian Foote is a games industry veteran with senior experience at Amazon, Team17, and Microsoft, as well as a key role in Sony Interactive Entertainment's By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Aerosoft Business Aerosoft Announces FS Conference Date After last year's success, Aerosoft has revealed further details about the next FS Conference, the largest event for flight simulation fans in Germany. The 20th FS Conference will now take place in mid-November. Flight sim enthusiasts should mark 15 November 2025 in their calendars. On that date, the By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Sales Status of Nintendo Switch, FY25. © Nintendo Business Switch Hardware and Software Sales Fall Sharply, Nintendo Revises Guidance Last quarter, sales of Switch hardware and software fell so sharply that Nintendo had to lower its forecast for the fiscal year. Despite this, more than 150 million Switch consoles have now been shipped. Nintendo has released its financial results for the first nine months (April to December 2024) of By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Maria Wagner, Managing Director Sustainable Games Alliance. and Jasmin Oestreicher, CEO of Instinct 3 (form left) © GM Business Instinct3 Joins Sustainable Games Alliance Instinct3 has become the first German company to join the Sustainable Games Alliance (SGA), according to its own statement. For the influencer marketing agency—now also operating as a game publisher—joining the alliance marks an important step toward making its business more sustainable, even though it is not yet By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur Campus GamesTalents Launches Application Phase With New Website School students between the ages of 13 and 16 from all types of schools can apply for the nationwide GamesTalente competition organised by Bildung & Begabung and the Stiftunhg Digitale Spielekultur until the beginning of April. The competition is supported by the Mercedes Benz Fonds. To mark the start of By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Brent Blazek, Merge Mansion Growth Lead at Metacore © Metacore, Blazek Business Metacore Appoints New Merge Mansion Growth Lead Brent Blazek Metacore targets growth opportunities in casual and Merge2 genres. The mobile games company has appointed Brent Blazek as its new Growth Lead to drive the growth of its four-year-old game Merge Mansion. In 2024, Metacore's Merge Mansion reached two milestones: over 55 million downloads and over $500 million By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© EA Development Extensive Community Collaboration for Next Battlefield Electronic Arts' Battlefield studios are basing the next Battlefield game on the biggest community collaboration in the franchise's history. This is probably the publisher's way of trying to avoid another launch debacle like Battlefield 2042 in November 2021. Electronic Arts has announced the "most By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II © Plaion Products Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Plaion is about to launch one of its biggest releases ever: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. The action role-playing game is on over a million wishlists on Steam alone. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II continues and concludes the story of Henry of Skalitz (Heinrich in German), a blacksmith's son from By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Paul Schnepf and Jonas Tyroller have won the 2023 German Developer Award in the Best Casual Game category for Thronefall. © Beatrice Thoma for the 2023 Game Developer Award Business Thronefall Sells Over One Million Copies Berlin-based indie studio Grizzly Games is celebrating over one million copies of Thronefall sold by releasing a final content update to mark the milestone. The two-person team will now focus on a new game. Thronefall, developed by Berlin-based Grizzly Games, has sold over one million copies. It is available for By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Tim Krause-Murroni © Tim Krause Business Tim Krause-Murroni Joins 2nd Wave After more than five years with Webedia’s artist management team, Tim Krause-Murroni has joined 2nd Wave as Director of Operations. He assumed his new role on 1 February, where he will support agency founder and CEO Boris Lehfeld in managing day-to-day operations. With his extensive experience in artist management By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Grammy Awards / Winifred Phillips © Recording Academy / Winifred Phillips (official website) Business Winifred Phillips Wins Grammy for Best Video Game Soundtrack Winifred Phillips has won the award for Best Score for Video Games and Other Interactive Media at the 2025 Grammy Awards. This is the third time the award has been presented. At the 2025 Grammy Awards, the Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media category was awarded By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Jürgen Barke and Elena Yorgova-Ramanauskas, heads of the Ministry of Economics, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy, are responsible for games funding in Saarland. © Oliver Dietze Business New Games Funding Programme to Launch with Increased Budget in Q1 2025 After a change in responsibility, games funding in Saarland remained largely quiet throughout 2024. Now, according to information from GamesMarkt, a new funding programme is set to launch soon, with €300,000 allocated for project funding, the Game Award Saar, and event and location marketing. The background to this development By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
