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GameDuell’s Head of Game Design and User Experience Howard Phillips talks about engaging gameplay and the psychology of game design.

Once a year the giant Fluffy, who inhabits our lounge, is transformed into a ghastly Halloween ghost and celebrates along with our equally hauntingly disguised team members at our spine-tingling Halloween party!

GameDuell chooses one project each quarter for a donation to a charity project. This time, we decided to support ‘Die Gelbe Villa’ in Berlin, a creative and educational center for children and youths.

The best way to bring people together isn’t just games – it’s food! That’s why every once in a while we invite all new team members to the Newbie Cooking Session, where we all get to know each other while preparing a meal and welcome aboard our newcomers. Currently, GameDuell has 215 members from 35 different countries – but, with the effort of our amazing HR team, this list is expanding every month.

Ian Bowden, former Grand Theft Auto rock-star and current Art Director at GameDuell, in a delightful interview about sketching people on the subway, his favourite games and how your background defines you as an artist.

Computer skills are becoming increasingly important nowadays. They can not only open new doors into the job market, but also help with better exploiting one’s personal potential. This is why we gladly contributed to Non-Profit Organization AMANDLA’s computer training project in Cape Town with a monetary donation. The training provided 15 young adults aged between 18 to 25 with a certified education in computer usage.

On the 10th of September, Berlin witnessed the final round of the biggest company run in the country – the B2RUN. The sporty team of GameDuell couldn’t, of course, ignore an event of such importance and on a stormy Friday afternoon 9 of us went to the monumental Olympiastadion to take part in a 6km long run with other 14 000 participants.

Even though Berlin summers are usually capricious and unpredictable, this year we were blessed with lots of joyful and colorful days – days that were, in fact, pretty hot. And by ‘pretty hot’ we mean 38 degrees Celsius. So of course there was a great deal of ice cream in the office and a number of refreshing outdoor activities. But what else did we do this summer?