All Together Now
German games industry trade bodies BIU and GAME merge
MD Felix Falk hails news as "historic day" for country's industry
Wooga's New Focus
Live ops and long soft-launches: Wooga's CEO Jens Begemann on its renewed focus for 2017
From casual to midcore and back again
Spooky Business
Balancing the bang and the buck: The making of Zombie Gunship Survival
Limbic Software and Flaregames explain all
Fulfilling The Vision
InnoGames on finishing what Wooga started with Warlords
Studio Director Philip Bang on the project so far
Time To Reflect
From hobby development to 150 million players: CEO Hendrik Klindworth on 10 years of InnoGames
Dropping out of university to build a 400-strong company
Licensed To Stream
German regulator rules YouTubers and Twitch streamers must have a broadcasting license
Could run them up to €10,000
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Flaregames' Tara Brannigan on how to get a job as a Community Manager
Some top tips in building a career in Community Management
A Perfect Match?
Can traditional analogue game mechanics make successful F2P casual titles?
231 Play on going back to basics to find a niche
Nonstop Roundhouse Kick
Flaregames soft-launches new Nonstop Knight title Nonstop Chuck Norris
The kids do love their memes
A Royal Victory
Royal Revolt 2 saw 28% better D30 retention thanks to TROPHiT partnership
Incentivised campaigns does wonders for flaregames
Now Playing
Now playing: Flaregames CEO Klaas Kersting on Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
East Meets West
Goodgame Studios bets on gacha-based Asian-style RPGs after restructuring
The new 30-strong RPG team speaks out
Target Locked
After almost a year of silence Flaregames confirms Zombie Gunship, Inc. release for late 2016
F2P take on the zombie shooting series finally seeing the light of day
Wooga Job Cuts
Wooga cuts 40 jobs amid a restructuring of its casual games development
Black Anvil seemingly unaffected
Mobile Focus
How to get a job at Forge of Empires developer InnoGames
HR Director Andreas Giesa shares insights
Job Losses
Goodgame compulsory dismissals affect 114 staff
Temporary roles also on the line
The Time Is Soon
Wooga on establishing a scalable smartwatch gaming market ahead of Apple Watch 2 and watchOS 3
CEO Jens Begemann on Fish Time and experimenting with IAP
Goodgame Job Losses
Job cuts at one of Germany’s biggest games studios Goodgame could hit “up to 600 employees”
Expats set to receive just 50% reimbursment of relocation costs
Gunning For Flare
How to get a job at boutique German publisher Flaregames
HR Manager Melanie Ebelle shares insights
No Stopping
Flaregames triples revenue as Nonstop Knight surpasses four million downloads
Pivot to publishing a huge success
Aeria Games Job Cuts?
Rumour: Berlin-based developer Aeria Games cuts 106 jobs following acquisition by Gamigo
Due to "operational reasons"
On The Move
Evening and weekend studio Swiftmill hopes to accelerate App Store success with 12 games in 12 months
Monthly cadence
Apply Now
Goodgame Studios hiring Java Server Developer for first ever puzzle game
Hamburg studio hiring MMO server developer
Still Going
All loot, no hassle: the making of Nonstop Knight
Mika Kuusisto and Dana Massey on making an idle RPG
Wrist Quick
Wooga's debut Apple Watch game is retaining players twice as well as mobile games
A new way to play
Easy Peasy
As devs drift towards midcore, is there an opportunity for super casual experiences?
231 Play founder Matthias Hoechsmann thinks so
Launch Window
Flaregames' Olympus Rising hits 1 million downloads
Strategy revisited
Classics Digitised
Gamedoctors founders aim to "casualize" analogue classics with new Berlin studio 231 Play
Debut game will be Peppy Pairs Paradise
Smart Time?
Paul Virapen on why smartwatch gaming, not VR, is the big, new opportunity for Wooga
Wrist over head
Cogs In The Machine
Machine Zone hiring for live ops and engineering in Hamburg and Palo Alto
In the zone
Never The Twain
Wooga on its tactical separation of core and casual development, and why wearables will trump VR
Jens Begemann and Wilhelm Oesterberg on the casual/midcore divide
Trump That
GameDuell switches focus from casual to cross-platform card and board games
Shuts down internal studio
Fast Rising
Goodgame Studios hits 300 million players across PC and mobile
Goodgame Empire leads the way
10 In 10
10 years of Pocket Gamer: Christopher Kassulke on being one of the first to put GPS into mobile games
10 questions, 10 answers, 10 years
Expanding
Updated: Innogames acquires Funatics to create a mobile-focused Dusseldorf studio
40-strong studio is ready to roll
Gdc Launch Pad
Simplaex launches the first peer-to-peer marketing platform for game developers to buy, engage and sell players
A new marketing technology platform arises
Wooga Spin-off
Wooga spins off new core-focused studio, Black Anvil Games
Turn-based strategy Warlords coming soon from new studio
Roll Up Roll Up
RNTS spends up to $72 million, adding Inneractive to Heyzap and Fyber to hit $220 million in sales by 2017
Spending spree
Get A Life
MegaZebra's Henning Kosmack on how to put the life-time back into LTV
Your game gets older, but your players stay the same age
New Signing
Flaregames partners with Finnish startup Kopla Games to publish 'accessible RPG' Project Nonstop
Action RPGs for all
Iap Inspector
At war with the system: the monetisation of Path of War
IAPs from the players' perspective
Beyond A Clash
From C&C: Tiberium Alliances to Path of War: Can Envision successfully innovate core mobile strategy?
Martin Löhlein has a plan
More Branding, Less Ua
2015 in Review: Flaregames CEO Klaas Kersting on the transition from developer to publisher
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Proven Hires
Flaregames strengthens management team with new marketing and operations directors
Mickael Bougis and Chris Hinton sign up
Karlsruhe Calling
Flaregames seeks new Head of User Acquisition
Experienced campaign managers wanted
Squad Power Up
Emerald City signs up with Flaregames for next titles in Lionheart RPG franchise
German publisher gains another convert
German Powerhouse
How Flaregames found success by learning from its failures
Klaas Kersting is on the up
Get Hired
How to get a job at one of Remote Control Productions' 14 studios
Creative Producer Knut Gollert reveals top tips
Something New
Gumi chooses Berlin for its new European-focused mobile game development team
Central location is best
Rebounds
Following hard reset in SF, GREE expands with new offices in Berlin and Melbourne
Cheaper, fresher locations