In November 2020, Embracer Group acquired a 100 percent stake in Turin, Italy-based 34BigThings through its subsidiary Saber Interactive. We caught up with Valerio Di Donato, CEO at 34BigThings, to discuss how, if at all, the acquisition by the corporate giant has changed the studio that has always prided itself on the freedom to be “superweird.”

The winners of the annual Dstars Awards have been announced today. Italian developers have voted for their colleagues across categories like Game of the Year, Management Star, Best New Studio, and Industry Star.

Seamus Blackley has been announced as a keynote speaker for DStars Connects, Italy’s biggest event for game developers. Blackley is an experienced game designer best known for creating and designing the first Xbox console at Microsoft.

Gamera Interactive CEO Alberto Belli has joined us to discuss what the Italian studio managed to achieve in 2021 and what to expect from it this year, including the launch of RPG Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms.

DStars, Italy’s biggest event celebrating the country’s game developers, will be back on March 25th – 27th.

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is now also a game publisher, as it has released its first game. ITALY. Land of Wonders is a mobile puzzle adventure, which lets people explore the country’s art and culture.

IIDEA, the Italian Interactive Digital Entertainment Association, has released the fifth biennial census on Italy’s video game sector.

The winners of DStars Awards have been announced today. DStars is Italy’s biggest event celebrating the country’s game developers.

ENCODYA is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game that came out on PC on Jauary 26. We caught up with ENCODYA’s developer Nicola Piovesan to discuss the game and the team behind it at chaosmonger studio.

This is another installment in our “2020 in video games” series. Today we are joined by Alberto Belli, Founder & CEO of Gamera Interactive (Italy). 

Game Seer Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in Germany, has invested an undisclosed amount in Alaloth – Champions of The Four Kingdoms by Gamera Interactive.

The DStars Awards, Italy’s biggest event celebrating the country’s game developers, will be back in March 2021.

IIDEA, the association representing the video game industry in Italy, has joined the European Games Developer Federation (EGDF).

In May, the Italian government approved a €4m funding scheme for the country’s video game developers. The Democratic Party’s Marianna Madia has now proposed an amendment to cancel this fund.

The Spanish government is going to give 20 million euros to CREA SGR, a Spanish non-profit financial organization, to support cultural industries affected the pandemic. Some of that money will go to video games companies.