gamescom LAN 2024 © TaKeTV and MYI Entertainment Events First Look at Gamescom LAN 2025 Creator heavyweights such as MckyTV, NoWay4u_Sir and HandOfBlood have announced their attendance at gamescom LAN 2025. In addition, the Trading Card Game & Fighting Games area will be expanded and esports tournaments with up to €32,000 in prize money will be held. The Press Play B2B event will By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
ERA CEO Kim Bayley © ERA Business UK Games Market Down 4.4% in 2024 Unlike in 2022 and 2023, the largest entertainment market in the UK in 2024 was no longer games, but video. Physical games have fallen particularly sharply, by almost a third. The Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) has released its full year UK market data for 2024. Total entertainment sales By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
© Tencent Business Tencent Will Take Legal Action to Resolve "Misunderstanding" if Necessary Chinese publisher Tencent has issued a statement after being named on a list of Chinese military companies maintained by the US Department of Defense, the so-called CMC List. Tencent speaks of a misunderstanding, wants to seek dialogue, but will also go to court if necessary. This is stated in a By Team Gamesmarkt • 1 min read
© GM Business Usual Suspects, Successful Exclusives, and the Missing Surprise Hit The game association has released the annual charts for the best-selling console and PC games of 2024. While the top positions are similar to previous years, there are notable differences in the details. The elephant in the room, however, is the absence of Black Myth: Wukong. As was the case By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
© Sony Development Sony Announced XYN Solution for Spatial Content Creation During the CES press conference, Sony also presented its new XYN solution. These are software and hardware-based solutions for creating spatial digital worlds, some of which are still in the prototype stage. A central element is XYN Motion Studio, which will be available at the end of March. The main By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© GM Business Markus Wilding Goes Freelance Under the Name Beyond the Wall Consulting In recent weeks, former 2K and Private Division director Markus Wilding has taken on numerous freelance assignments under the name Beyond the Wall Consulting, including projects for devcom and Harakka Studio. He spoke to GamesMarkt about his plans and vision for his new consulting business. Markus Wilding transitioned to self-employment By Stephan Steininger • 3 min read
© GM Business CES 2025: From Acer, Asus and Cherry to LG and Xbox PC and peripheral manufacturers in particular like to use the CES in Las Vegas as an opportunity to present new gaming models. This was also the case in 2025, when there were new handhelds, laptops, keyboards and gaming collaborations. Acer, for example, traveled to Las Vegas with new handhelds. The By Team Gamesmarkt • 1 min read
© Paramount Business Sonic Breaks the $1 Billion Box Office Mark With its latest box office takings, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has now grossed over $312 million. This brings the cumulative box office revenue of the Sonic movie franchise past the $1 billion mark—a tremendous achievement, though another video game character managed to reach this milestone with a single movie. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics Group, AMD © AMD Business AMD Announces New Gaming CPUs, and Somehow RDNA 4 Too At CES 2025, AMD announced new CPUs for desktop, mobile and handheld gaming. GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture were also unveiled, although they were missing from the keynote. AMD announced new gaming products for desktop, mobile and handheld gaming at CES 2025. The company unveiled new Ryzen 9900X3D By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Fonce © Ciné-Litté Business Creative Europe Media 2024: €7.7M Euros for European Video Games 41 games benefit from €7.7 million Creative Europe Media Video Games funding in 2024, six games projects from Germany (€1.3 million) and one from Austria. Among the games receiving funding is Fonce, a tale of love and war by Cologne-based Ciné-Litté Productions. It is an interactive, animated VR By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Sebastian Tyzak will join Manuel Fritsch and Michael Wieczorek as third host of Insert Moin © Insert Moin People Sebastian Tyzak Joins Insert Moin as Third Host Starting January 12, the hosting duo of Manuel Fritsch and Michael Wieczorek from Insert Moin will be joined by Sebastian Tyzak from Game Two. The podcast, which introduced changes to its content at the turn of the year, will benefit from Tyzak’s addition. These changes are based on feedback By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Nvidia Development Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series, DLSS 4, RTX Neural Rendering and More At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia announced the GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. DLSS 4 will feature Multi Frame Generation and AI is coming to Shaders. All the reveals at a glance. Nvidia has unveiled the GeForce RTX 50 Series of desktop and laptop GPUs at CES. The new By Marcel Kleffmann • 6 min read
