Our mission is to make NRW an excellent games location in Germany.
We have already achieved a lot since our launch and are constantly setting new goals for the future in order to fulfill this mission.
NEWS
games.LINK.nrw on March 17th. Networking event for members and non-members at Ubisoft’s premises.
The games.nrw General Assembly meeting took place on the same day.
2025
games.LINK.nrw on May 6th. Networking event for members and non-members.
Founding of the Stiftung Gameskultur & Entwicklerpreis gGmbH in November.
DEP 2025: The best games of 2025 were awarded on December 2nd in Cologne.
2024
General Assembly 2024 and Get-Together on May 23rd
New board elected! Press release from May 29, 2024
DEP 2024: The best games of 2024 were awarded on December 3rd in Cologne.
2023
German Developers Award 2023: The best games of 2023 were chosen in Cologne on December 7.
Meet us at gamescom 2023 at the NRW booth
General Assembly 2023
2022
Preparation for the Nordic Game Expo 2022
Press release – games.nrw continues the German Developer Award
Handover of the third position paper on the topic of “Developing the future of games funding at the state level”.
General Assembly 2022
2021
Participation in the support program “Sheroes – Unternehmerinnen in der Medienbranche”
Support and development of a games competence center
Development and implementation of an advertisement campaign that highlights NRW as the top location to work to recruit game specialists
2020
Shaping the future of state funding for digital games with a new prospectus
Introduction of a regularly occurring Industry Climate Assessment survey in NRW
2019
The new funding guidelines for digital games in NRW comes into effect by handing over a prospectus to the State Chancellery
Participation in state parliament hearing: North Rhine-Westphalia is established as the No. 1 games location
Setting up a network of experts for our members
2018
Increase in state funding from € 1.5 million to € 3 million by handing over a prospectus to the state chancellery
Appointment of a games speaker at Mediennetzwerk.NRW to further strengthen the promotion culture of video games
Start of Let’s-Go cooperation with Mediennetzwerk.NRW to support smaller game developers at (inter)national trade shows
Event support
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