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🇷🇴 Romanian Game Awards this year were also given away during Dev.Play event. The winner – tactical top-down shooter Door Kickers 2: Task Force North. Congrats!

All winners and nominees here:
zurl.co/FJAxJ
June 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
📢 Horizon Europe - TWO NEW EU FUNDING CALLS!

🔹Destination: Digital and Industrial Technologies Driving Human-Centric Innovation
🔹For research institutions, clusters or other parties involved in R&I and policy for the games industry

⌛October 2, 17:00 CET
🔗 zurl.co/1UDDV
🔗 zurl.co/Dv0AR
June 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🇮🇹 During the recent First Playable event in Florence, the annual Italian Video Game Awards ceremony was held. A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead by Stormind Games has become the best Italian game!

Congratulations to all nominees and winners:
zurl.co/5kUTK
June 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Gamebadges Competence Map is here! 🗺️

A resource to explore different roles and necessary competences within the game development industry. Designed for different expertise levels and can be used by anyone - juniors, seniors, or those jumping between different career paths.

🔗 zurl.co/sZLgg
Gamebadges Competence Map
The Gamebadges project will design, pilot, and implement the first of its kind, European-wide competence-based open badge ecosystem targeted at the European game industry and game education. The model will be transparent, public, and based on the solid needs of the industry. As a result, the ecosystem has two parts: an online Competence Map and digital open badges.
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June 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🇩🇪 Best games were also awarded recently in Germany. The main winner of the German Computer Game Awards (DCP) – survival action role-playing game Enshrouded from studio Keen Games. Congratulations!

All winners here:
zurl.co/FrIcL
June 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📢 Horizon Europe - EU FUNDING CALLS!

🔹Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries.
🔹Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance.

⌛September 16, 17:00 CET
🔗 zurl.co/0DoFN
June 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🇵🇱 A new batch of Digital Dragons awards for best Polish games was hatched. GOTY this time went to Frostpunk 2, congratulations!
All nominees and winners here:
conference.digitaldragons.pl...
June 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Bulgaria is inviting to their first edition of the Black Sea Game Summit (BSGS) on June 27–28 in the seaside city of Burgas, preceded by VR Hackaton. Indie developers to showcase their games, and attendance to the event is free!
More details:
knowledgefound.org/hackathons/
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May 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The application is open to join the Creative Europe MEDIA stand at gamescom in Cologne, Germany on August 20-22!

❗The deadline is the 6th of June, don't miss the opportunity.

More info and registration form 👉 media-stands.eu/markets/game...
GAMESCOM - Media Stands
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May 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🇫🇮 The Finnish Game Awards has selected medieval sandbox MMO Pax Dei by Mainframe Industries as the game of the year. Congratulations!
All winners and the ceremony video here:
zurl.co/oLywK
May 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Nordic Game is fast approaching and invites everyone to Malmö, Sweden on May 20-23!
NG25 is again organising the Spring Policy Summit focused on strengthening the European games ecosystem.
EGDF members can use a 20% discount for tickets - please contact us.
zurl.co/SQjDw
May 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
EIT Acceleration & Post-Acceleration Programmes
Cohort deadlines: 23 May & 11 July, 17:00 CET
Application is open to start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs operating within the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI), including Cultural Heritage, Audio-Visual Media, and Gaming.
zurl.co/OCMwy.
April 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
For the Win! invites the European game dev community to meet in Belgrade, Serbia, on May 28-29. Join 500+ game dev professionals as well as peers from other related fields.
Free passes and discounts available for EGDF members!
zurl.co/T1ZmB
April 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🇫🇷 Continuing with the awards topic, the Pégases 2025 in France crowned Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown as the Game of the Year. In all, awards in 16 categories were given. Congratulations to all the winners!
Find the list of awarded games and the ceremony video here:
zurl.co/uSlat
April 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🇸🇰 Congratulations to the winners of the Slovakian game awards! BiT Awards 2025 celebrated Workers & Resources as Best PC Game and TrainStation 3 as Best Mobile Game.
Find out all the winners and the ceremony video here:
zurl.co/rlpEt
April 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
@Sustainable Games Alliance are organizing an online meetup! Experts from SGA, Xbox and Ubisoft will share their best practices to optimize games in order to reduce power consumption and hardware load, without any negative impact on players' experience.

📅 April 29, 15:00 CEST
🔗 zurl.co/6BS9s
April 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
EGDF welcomes the Commission’s preliminary findings and fully agrees with the Commission on the fact that, due to a number of restrictions imposed by Apple and Alphabet, game developers cannot fully benefit from the advantages of alternative distribution channels. www.egdf.eu/egdf-response-on...
EGDF RESPONSE ON COMMISSIONS’ DMA ENFORCEMENT DECISIONS REGARDING APPLE AND ALPHABET
25/04/2025 APPLE AND ALPHABET MUST STOP HINDERING ACCESS TO THIRD-PARTY APPLICATION STORES AND THE USE OF THIRD-PARTY PAYMENT SYSTEMS EGDF welcomes the Commission’s preliminary findings concluding …
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April 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
EGDF and Sony are inviting you to a webinar to discuss opportunities PlayStation provides for European indie game developers.
We still have some places left for registration, please join us on the 24th of April, 17:00 CET by filling in this questionnaire by the 23rd of April:
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April 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🎉 Over the years, it's become a prized tradition of EGDF to host out Spring General Assembly during the Reboot Develop Blue! 🇭🇷

This year it was extra special - it was the 10th anniversary of Reboot, where we have returned year after year to exchange knowledge and ideas. Thank you for hosting us! ✨
April 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The Spring edition of EGDF General Assembly took place yesterday 🌟The first parts of the holistic EGDF vision of public funding for games in Europe were approved. They will be published soon and will be constantly updated to form the basis of EGDF's further work to defend game developers interest.
April 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🇷🇴 Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Dev.Play Conference in Bucharest on June 2-3!

Two full days of insightful lectures from internationally recognized speakers, a showcase and networking opportunities await you!

🔗 Tickets and info: dev-play.ro/
April 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🇱🇹 On March 15, 2025 Lithuanian game developers' community gathered for the 10th time (!) to honor the best games created in Lithuania last year.

🔗 Find out who the winners of LT Game Awards 2024 were at www.gameawards.lt/en/nominees/
April 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🇱🇻 On March 12 Latvian game developers came together for the Latvian Game of the Year 2024 award ceremony. The incredible winners:
💡 Jam game: Arcane Board
📱 Mobile game: WalkScape
🎨 Game graphics: Stories from the Outbreak
🏆 Game music, Game design, Game of the Year: The Rise of the Golden Idol
April 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Join the 10th-anniversary edition of Reboot Develop Blue on 14-16 April 2025 in the legendary seaside city of Dubrovnik!

Featuring 8 tracks and 160+ speakers, the unique speaker lineup expands featuring absolute top games industry creators, developers, and managers.

🔗 rebootdevelopblue.com/2025
March 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Join the Games Policy Summit on May 20 to discuss the future of games industry policy in a shifting economic landscape - the application to join the Games Policy Summit at NG25 Spring is now open! 💡

🔹A Nordic Game conference pass is also required to participate.
🔗 Register by 2 May: zurl.co/Krb8W
March 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM