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Berlin’s annual International Games and Playful-Media Festival, A Maze, once again showcased a diverse array of experiences, alternative gaming solutions, and experimental platform exchanges. The festival expanded its program and locations throughout the city, including virtual spaces. Notably, award-nominated games were made playable on a dedicated A Maze storefront on Steam, and collaborations with cultural i

GDC 2024 allocated an entire day to discuss the current state and future development of VR Gaming at the Future Realities Summit in San Francisco. Despite its status as a niche within the broader gaming market, the significance of VR gaming may escalate due to the pressing need for innovation amidst a stagnant market environment. This stagnation is characterized by post-pandemic hype correction, increasing production

Amidst the ongoing excitement surrounding AI, the Game Developers Conference 2024 once again provided valuable insights into this rapidly evolving field of technological innovation. Within the realm of AI, the game industry stands out as an area of particular interest, having utilized machine learning and AI tools in game production and design for quite some time. In contrast to the fervor and apparent groundbreaking

Nvidia‘s annual tech conference, GTC, showcased the latest developments in the company’s hardware portfolio, as well as its achievements in AI and collaboration efforts with immersive technologies in the enterprise sector. Driven by the demands of AI, this year’s hardware presentation focused on advancements in supercomputers. AI applications were highlighted, including chatbots, avatar generation,

Apple’s long-awaited entry into the XR space with the newly released Apple Vision Pro headset marks a significant milestone for the immersive industries. In terms of awareness, the engagement of the tech giant in the headset industry mirrors its previously successful roll-outs of smartphones for mass-market appeal. From a technical standpoint, the industry anticipates that Apple’s standard-setting feature

Berlin welcomes a new gaming festival, marking a resurgence of gaming festivities on both professional and public fronts. In contrast to the more business-oriented Quo Vadis conferences in the Millennium decade and the public celebration-oriented Games Week pre-pandemic, Games Ground Berlin now combines both aspects. Two business days of meeting activities preceded two weekend days of public access to the fairground.

IFA 2023 returned as a full-fledged in-person event, and visitor numbers could even match pre-pandemic standards. The transition from digital and hybrid events over the last three years was quite abrupt. Not even a keynote was live-streamed anymore; the entire program was centered around the fairground, and the IFA app only served for on-site arrangements. IFA 2023 was a restart with physical displays and a setback o

Gamescom 2023, Germany’s annual gaming event, grappled with a series of contradictions on multiple fronts. It spotlighted the disparity between Germany being one of the world’s largest gaming consumer markets and the comparatively modest economic impact of the German game industry. This incongruity took center stage amid a flurry of political debates. The stark contrast between the event’s branding

The annual game developer conference Devcom kicked off this year’s Gamescom with a two-day event featuring conferences, an expo site, and social gatherings for the gaming industry. The hybrid format encompassed live-streamed lectures and provided virtual meeting slots on the event platform The focal point of this year’s edition was the integration and management of AI tools within the daily development pipeline