Tag: Electronic game
End of the chip crisis in sight
Technology fair CES Electronics manufacturers will have to wait less long for chips, also because more production facilities start operating. (Photo: AP) Las Vegas The global chip crisis, which has…
This woman teaches Microsoft to fear
Lina Khan It was her critical attitude towards the tech companies that convinced US President Biden to make the lawyer the powerful head of the authorities. (Photo: AP) new York…
US antitrust authority FTC wants to block Activision purchase by Microsoft
Activision Blizzard logo With the takeover, Microsoft wants to become the third-largest game development company. (Photo: AP) Washington The US antitrust authority FTC wants to block the mega takeover of…
Digital location Germany: Games funding exhausted until 2023
Dusseldorf The Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) is temporarily stopping new applications for federal games funding. This emerges from an industry circular from the BMWK. “The great…
Cloud gaming fails due to a lack of courage on the part of Google and Telekom
san francisco At the world’s largest computer games fair Gamescom in Cologne in 2019, an upheaval in the global industry was to be initiated. The best games should no longer…
The comeback of the Berlin games company Wooga
Nai Chang The CEO took over the leadership of the game developer Wooga 2020 from founder Jens Begemann. (Photo: Wooga) Berlin After the media-covered visit by then Chancellor Angela Merkel…
Gamestop share up 15 percent – cooperation with crypto exchange ensures price jump
Gamestop branch The computer games retailer wants to shift its business more and more into the digital world. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf The stock of the US computer games retailer Gamestop…
Tencent doubles stake in Ubisoft
Ubisoft booth at Gamescom games fair Visitors to the Gamescom trade fair 2022 in Cologne play at a booth of the gaming company Ubisoft. (Photo: IMAGO/Rüdiger Wölk) Dusseldorf With investments…
Games industry between awakening and consolidation
Cologne At first glance, the euphoria in the Cologne exhibition halls seems great: After a three-year Corona break, visitors are again allowed to attend Gamescom – the largest video game…
How the cult club is stirring up the e-sports scene
Johannes Gorzel (left), Hendrik Ruhe The two founders want to stir up the e-sports scene. (Photo: Instinct3) Berlin Where once there were safes and counters, there are now building materials,…
Shortage of skilled workers: Why Innogames publishes salary bands
Entrance area of Innogames in Hamburg The company discloses its salaries. But not only financial incentives are needed in the industry. (Photo: Innogames) Dusseldorf The Hamburg-based computer game manufacturer Innogames…
GameStop chief financial officer leaves – stock falls in after-hours trading
GameStop store front The company’s stock plummeted after the market closed. (Photo: Reuters) Bangalore Mike Recupero has left the US company, reports the politics and news website Axios, citing a…
This is how the Playstation manufacturer reinvented itself
Tokyo Sony is currently playing for its future on the lawn of the Etihad Stadium in Manchester. In February, company boss Kenichiro Yoshida agreed with English football club Manchester City…
Hackers steal $600 million in crypto from computer game
Frankfurt It is one of the biggest crypto thefts in history: hackers stole around 600 million dollars from the online computer game “Axie Infinity”. A total of 173,600 ethers and…
Investors discover the virtual world for themselves
Cologne It’s coming soon: “Welcome to the Metaverse!” Football club Manchester City is building a virtual replica of its stadium together with Sony. Fans should be able to watch every…
Investors discover the virtual world for themselves
Cologne It’s coming soon: “Welcome to the Metaverse!” Football club Manchester City is building a virtual replica of its stadium together with Sony. Fans should be able to watch every…
Sony wants to build electric cars – with Honda
Tokyo When Sony unveiled a prototype for an electric car at CES in Las Vegas in 2020, some industry observers still spoke of a PR stunt. But the Japanese are…
Become Snoop Dogg’s neighbor
The author Tillmann Prüfer is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”. In the early 2000s, a man named Dennis Hope made a name for himself when he seriously claimed…
In the Metaverse hype, billions are spent on nonsense
Mark Zuckerberg “The hype surrounding the metaverse will result in billions of euros being spent on nonsense.“ Dusseldorf For people who work professionally with the Internet, it is good manners…
Sony’s billion-dollar deal is heating up the fight for the screen
New York, San Francisco The battle for the gaming market has broken out. On Monday evening, the Japanese entertainment group Sony announced that it would swallow up the US game…