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Steve Collins Joins Unity As New Chief Technology Officer Former King CTO and Havok co-founder Steve Collins (Steven Collins) joins Unity as its new Chief Technology Officer. The company, which has just released Unity 6, is strengthening its technical leadership as it accelerates transformation. "We're elated to have Steve join us at this pivotal time," said Matthew Bromberg Bromberg, President and CEO of Unity. "He has deep technical expertise in both gaming and marketing technology and he understands what developers need. Steve will play a key role as we continue to deliver more innovation, quality, and stability to our customers." https://lnkd.in/e4cHzAF3

German Indie Showcase Enters Third Round The largest German-language indie games keynote, the "German Indie Showcase", enters its third round. 1UP MANAGEMENT invites indie developers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland to present their games to a large audience. https://lnkd.in/e4BVrtDp

Indie Arena Booth Gets 370,000 Euro Creative Europe Funding As part of the current Creative Europe Media round for market funding, the Indie Arena Booth by Super Crowd GmbH has received 370,000 euros in EU funds. https://lnkd.in/e8iiwN25

Gentle Troll expands Tavern Talk with new DLC Indie developer Gentle Troll Entertainment GmbH has announced a new DLC for its cozy visual novel Tavern Talk. The Würzburg-based company is adding a new storyline to its "very positively" received game. https://lnkd.in/e43GUqDQ

Performance of EA Sports Games Drives Record Q2 Net Bookings for EA American Football and Global Football have led Electronic Arts (EA) to its best second quarter ever, despite lowered expectations for Apex Legends. The publisher will release Dragon Age: The Veilguard tomorrow. https://lnkd.in/ePb6nmfc

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket is Now Live Announced in February, the Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket is now live for mobile. The game wants to streamline the card battles while simulating the rush of opening packs of visually appealing cards. https://lnkd.in/e9_buJhy

Sony Interactive Entertainment Closes Firewalk Studios and Neon Koi, With German Site Also Affected Firewalk Studios and Neon Koi, a PlayStation Studio are being closed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Firewalk is the studio behind Concord. Neon Koi was working on a mobile action game. https://lnkd.in/e5ibmpin

Aldamami is Excited to Start The Rabbit This year's The Rabbit starts on October 31 at COCONAT - a workation retreat. One of the participating teams is ALDAMAMI GAMES, which was nominated for this year's DCP in the category Best Prototype. We talked to the four founders about their expectations of the extraordinary program. https://lnkd.in/eX--dFyX

Markus Wilding Joins Zoran Roso as Consultant Marketing veteran Markus Wilding has gone freelance recently, and is now joining Zoran Roso Consulting for one of his first official contracts. https://lnkd.in/euVJJbxK

Chimera's Songs of Silence Leaves Early Access and Heads to Consoles Munich-based Chimera Entertainment and remote control productions will be completing the Early Access phase of Songs of Silence before the end of the year, as planned. In addition to PC, the strategy game will also be released for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. https://lnkd.in/e4Bmd3tm