GOODGAME EMPIRE AND GOODGAME BIG FARM NOW AVAILABLE ON MICROSOFT STORE
Hamburg,
Hamburg, August 31, 2021 – Goodgame Studios, leading developer and publisher of free-to-play video games, expands its product portfolio within Microsoft Store for Windows 10. After the successful release of Big Farm: Mobile Harvest on Microsoft Store in April this year, the titles Goodgame Empire and Goodgame Big Farm are making their way into the worldwide Microsoft community.
A life as king: celebrating the 10th anniversary of Goodgame Empire
Hamburg,
Hamburg, July 29, 2021 – As previously announced, Goodgame Studios from Hamburg has a huge reason to celebrate! Strategy game Goodgame Empire is turning ten and, as is tradition for a round anniversary, the company is hosting a multitude of events and activities in the coming month.
A decade of Goodgame Empire: embracing sustainable strategy for international success
Hamburg,
Hamburg, July 22, 2021 – Goodgame Studios, leading developer and publisher of online video games on browser and mobile devices, is preparing for a special day this August: Online-strategy-hit Goodgame Empire will reach a magical milestone and celebrates its tenth anniversary!
The online battle for a real sword!
Hamburg,
A tournament of superlatives is beginning today in Germany’s most successful strategy game, “Goodgame Empire”. In addition to prizes worth almost 10 million euros, for the first time since the game launched seven years ago, players can also battle for a real, one-of-a-kind trophy: a sword made of Damascus steel, handcrafted especially for “Goodgame Empire”.
Its virtual counterpart is the focal point of a several-week-long battle, which will determine the best Empire player in the world over the course of several rounds. Depending on where the victor is located, they will receive the sword in person or by special delivery to a destination of their choice. In order to satisfy the global fan community of “Goodgame Empire”, an additional prize of an equally skillfully-crafted shield and thousands more prizes will also be given away.
Many hours of hard work have gone into crafting the sword in the workshops of YouTube channel “Awe.Me” in the USA. Their series, “Man At Arms: Reforged”, shows viewers how to make famous weapons, from movies such as “Lord of the Rings” and shows like “Game of Thrones”, and now “Fury’s Blade” from “Goodgame Empire”, too. As one of the largest and most influential YouTube channels around the world with 6.4 million subscribers, word is bound to spread.
Watch the making here:
Trailer (30 sec): https://youtu.be/DWMrr33PUTc
Full episode (18 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y-NCYgTz5I
In Germany, YouTube stars “Flying Uwe” (1.2 million subscribers) and “Montana Black” (1.3 million subscribers) will also report on the unique event and themselves take a stab at winning the sword. Goodgame Studios itself will support the event with a comprehensive marketing campaign.
“This is the largest and most exciting event that we’ve ever had in Empire,” says Nina Müller, who is responsible for the game’s continued development at Goodgame Studios. “After months of preparation, we can finally let the cat out of the bag.” Jörgen Larsson, CEO of the Stillfront Group, to which Goodgame Studios has belonged since the beginning of the year, is enthusiastic: “Large community events make the difference in online games these days. I am convinced that this will give Empire and the whole group a further boost.”
Goodgame Studios hits turnover of 1 billion with knights and cows!
Hamburg,
“EMPIRE” and “BIG FARM” are the names of Goodgame Studios’ most successful mobile and browser games with over 340 million registered users. With a turnover of USD 1 billion, the German games forge, Goodgame Studios, is making a return to the top ranks of the gaming industry. This is an achievement “made in Germany” that is also causing a stir in the international gaming world. The two creative minds behind the company – founders and managing directors Dr. Kai and Dr. Christian Wawrzinek – thank their team for this success and they are confident: “EMPIRE and BIG FARM in particular are a remarkable success for Goodgame Studios and we can do more. The gaming industry still has huge potential. For our employees and for us, reaching this milestone is both reason to celebrate and an incentive.”
As the managers of one of Germany’s biggest gaming companies, the Wawrzinek brothers often found themselves in the same position as their players on their way to making a million: seeds that were sown did not always germinate; patience, fighting spirit and lots of strategic skill were necessary. After a phase of enormous growth in 2014 and 2015, they managed with blood, sweat and tears, tough cutbacks and restructuring in 2016, to get Goodgame Studios back on course in 2017. “It was absolutely essential for us to focus again fully on our core brands of EMPIRE and BIG FARM,” says Dr. Christian Wawrzinek. “Only in this way were we able to achieve turnaround, and we are now once again on a course of growth.” The successful launch of the mobile game “BIG FARM: MOBILE HARVEST” underlines this statement. In less than one month, the game has been installed over 2 million times worldwide.
In the fantastic world of BIG FARM, one can only become a successful farmer with business skills, the right strategy and a strong community – and those are the principles to which the team at Goodgame Studios also adhere when it comes to continuing the company’s steep upward curve in the future.
