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Bethesda successfully appeals German Fallout 3 ban

Having been banned in 2009, Bethesda has successfully overturned Fallout 3’s German ban. IGN reports that Bethesda "initiated a difficult and rarely-successful trial" with the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Minors (BPjM) to de-list the title ahead of the end of its statutory ten year sentence. Doing so would …

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International Insight: Germany

As the games industry heads to Cologne for Gamescom, Timm Walter, senior manager at local industry body GAME, examines the struggle of Germany’s local market Germany is huge, and thus the German games market is one of the biggest worldwide. Germany’s estimated sales revenue in 2015 for games was €3.27 …

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ESL hosting $250,000 CS:GO tournament in Cologne stadium

ESL announced today the “world’s largest” Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will be held this August in Cologne’s LANXESS arena for a $250,000 prize pool. The tournament, from August 22-23, will tie for largest prize pool in CS:GO history along with the previous two DreamHack Winters and last year’s ESL One …

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