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Access Sport has announced a new campaign that will see video game streamers raise money to make sport more inclusive to disadvantaged and disabled young people
Read More »Access Sport announces Streaming for Sport fundraising campaign
Kalypso Media fully acquires Realmforge Studios, with Realmforge taking over the Tropico series
Publisher Kalypso Media has announced that it has fully acquired developer Realmforge Studios, and that the developer will take over the future development of the hugely popular Tropico series.
Read More »Kalypso Media announces headcount grew by 50 per cent during 2020
Next-gen development and boosts in German federal funding had both played into the decision to expand
Read More »Kalypso Media opens new studio in Frankfurt
"I couldn’t be prouder to be working on a true icon of strategy gaming," says new studio director
Read More »Kalypso launches Port Royale 4 and Spacebase Startopia today as it doubles down on strategy titles
New titles will sit alongside Tropico 6 in Kalypso’s gamescom line-up, which international marketing director Anika Thun reveals is the best-selling release in the franchise to date
Read More »China now makes up 20% of Kalypso’s digital PC sales
Kalypso Media has reported significant growth in its Asian and Russian operations, with China now forming 20 per cent of the publisher’s overall digital PC sales. That’s an increase of 19 per cent year-on-year. The publisher has also seen promising pre-sale figures for several of its upcoming titles in China …
Read More »Kalypso Media appoints Jürgen Goeldner as strategic advisor
Kalypso Media has appointed Square Enix’s Jrgen Goeldner as its strategic advisor, the publisher has announced. In his new role, Goeldner will be working with Kalypso’s co-founder and global managing director Simon Hellwig on the firm’s branding, platforms, strategy and general global expansion as it prepares to bring its new …
Read More »Hellwig buys out Marcinek in Kalypso MBO
One of the co-founders of publisher Kalypso Media has left the company with immediate effect. The company has announced that co-owner and co-founder Stefan Marcinek (pictured) has resigned from all management and executive positions after an MBO from fellow co-owner and co-founder Simon Hellwig. Hellwig is now the global MD …
Read More »Kalypso hiring for new mobile office in Hamburg
New Year, New Job 2015: Bigpoint's Marcus Behrens hired as publishing director
Read More »Tropico 5 PS4 delayed to ‘early 2015’
The PlayStation 4 edition of Tropico 5 will miss its previously announced 2014 release window, publisher Kalypso has confirmed. Kalypso didn’t provide explanation for the PS4 delay, but did state that the Xbox 360 version is still due out in November of this year. In the same press release, the …
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