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Games companies in Germany up 15.5% year-on-year News Jul 28th, 2023

Games companies in Germany up 15.5% year-on-year

Industry has seen a 46 per cent increase in firms operating in the country since 2020

German games spending up 17% in 2021 News Aug 17th, 2022

German games spending up 17% in 2021

Consumers splashed a whopping €9.8 billion ($9.97 billion) last year

Games with loot boxes could be given automatic 18 rating in Germany News Mar 8th, 2021

Games with loot boxes could be given automatic 18 rating in Germany

This is the result of changes to the country's youth protection laws

Oculus temporarily stops selling headsets in Germany News Sep 3rd, 2020

Oculus temporarily stops selling headsets in Germany

Seems due to users having to have a Facebook account tied to their hardware

$55m German games dev fund notified by the European Commission News Mar 4th, 2020

$55m German games dev fund notified by the European Commission

It's expected to begin in Spring

Tencent invests in Spec Ops and The Cycle studio Yager News Feb 11th, 2020

Tencent invests in Spec Ops and The Cycle studio Yager

Chinese firm puts an undisclosed sum behind the Berlin studio

Hamburg is investing $2.2m in local games industry until 2023 News Jan 10th, 2020

Hamburg is investing $2.2m in local games industry until 2023

"Hamburg is one of the largest locations for the development and marketing of computer games in Germany"

German media regulator slams Valve for not handling Steam Nazi users and groups News Dec 12th, 2019

German media regulator slams Valve for not handling Steam Nazi users and groups

Media Agency Hamburg/Schleswig Holstein says the firm has removed this content since its complaint

Keywords snaps up German localisation and dubbing firm TV+Synchron News Sep 20th, 2019

Keywords snaps up German localisation and dubbing firm TV+Synchron

And what is the game that is being handled by one of the company's stories that is "underperforming"?

Epic Games opens new Cologne studio News Aug 15th, 2019

Epic Games opens new Cologne studio

The company is currently hiring for 200 positions globally

SI's Jacobson says Germany launch responsible for Football Manager 19 hitting 2m sales in eight months News Aug 14th, 2019

SI's Jacobson says Germany launch responsible for Football Manager 19 hitting 2m sales in eight months

"But extrapolating the sales compared to other years excluding Germany, it still looks like we would have done it anyway"

What is new with Devcom 2019? Feature Aug 7th, 2019

What is new with Devcom 2019?

Ahead of the Cologne show's third year, we caught up with managing director Stephan Reichart to find out more

Wild River makes 80 per cent of its PC revenue from physical retail (on some releases) Interviews & Opinion Aug 17th, 2018

Wild River makes 80 per cent of its PC revenue from physical retail (on some releases)

Head of games Marc Wardenga tells us a bit more about Wild River, film firm EuroVideo's new publishing label with connections to Hollywood

Germany is now allowing Nazi symbols like swastikas in video games News Aug 10th, 2018

Germany is now allowing Nazi symbols like swastikas in video games

"Video games have been recognised as a cultural medium for many years now, and this latest decision consistently cements that recognition in terms of the use of unconstitutional symbols as well"

Germany brings hammer down on game pre-orders without release dates News Jul 17th, 2018

Germany brings hammer down on game pre-orders without release dates

Ruling follows consumer protection claims against Media Markt smartphone pre-sales

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