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

• data
• germany

News Aug 17th, 2022

German games spending up 17% in 2021

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

• data
• 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

• loot boxes
• germany
• age ratings

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

• Virtual Reality
• vr
• legal drama
• germany
• drama
• oculus

News Mar 4th, 2020

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

It's expected to begin in Spring

• Funding
• germany
• games development

News Feb 11th, 2020

Tencent invests in Spec Ops and The Cycle studio Yager

Chinese firm puts an undisclosed sum behind the Berlin studio

• Investment
• germany
• berlin
• spec ops: the line
• the cycle

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"

• Investment
• Funding
• germany
• hamburg

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

• Steam
• germany
• nazi symbols
• nazi

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"?

• Localisation
• Acquisition
• film
• game development
• germany
• tv
• dubbing

News Aug 15th, 2019

Epic Games opens new Cologne studio

The company is currently hiring for 200 positions globally

• New Studio
• germany

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"

• sales data
• football manager
• germany
• football manager 19

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"

• rating boards
• germany
• nazi symbols

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

• Legal
• germany
• pre-orders

News May 17th, 2018

Nazi imagery appears in game in Germany for first time in 20 years

Browser game has gone unbothered

• germany
• nazis

News Feb 14th, 2018

Daedalic Entertainment hires entire team at Klonk Games to open new studio in Munich

Daedalic Entertainment Bavaria will develop its first title under the guidance of Deponia designer Poki

• Publishing
• New Studio
• germany
• Munich