GameDuell in the news
- Ranking of the 35 biggest German game developers published by Gameswirtschaft.de
11.01.2017
- Our tool tip in Making Games Magazine December 2016
20.12.2016
- Gamasutra: First Grand Gin Rummy Tournament has started
16.11.2016
- Office Drop In - A tour of GameDuell's Office
29.08.2016
- GameDuell Studio Portrait on Gamesauce.biz
27.06.2016
- Our tool tip HAXE at Making Games Magazine 04/16
22.04.2016
- Guest article at Heise Developer about glassfish / JEE7 migration
23.03.2016
- GameDuell joins the federal games association GAME (German)
01.12.2015
- Belote.com organizes World Championship (French)
17.11.2015
- The Importance of High-Quality Artwork in Mobile Games
06.11.2015
- JAXenter Java Magazin: JEE-7-Migration im laufenden Betrieb (German)
12.08.2015
- Q & A with our lead developer at Freie Universität Berlin (German)
31.07.2015
- Cross-Platform Game Development with the GameDuell DuellTool
24.07.2015
- How to get a job at Berlin casual developer GameDuell
24.07.2015
- GameDuell hires Nintendo
03.07.2015
- The Duell Tool is finally out there
02.06.2015
- Under the blue sky (German only)
26.05.2015
- Deutschlandradio Kultur on GameDuell's healthy lifestyle (German only)
19.05.2015
- El Passion features GameDuell as one of the 10 most promising Berlin startups
13.05.2015
- Making Games Magazine: From Core to Casual
05.05.2015
- Berliner Morgenpost lists the most popular apps from Berlin
14.01.2015
- Tagesspiegel about meeting of games industry with Berlin Senator of Economic Affairs (German)
17.10.2014
- Gründerszene publishes virtual GameDuell office tour (German)
30.09.2014
- Berliner Zeitung about the boom of creative industries (German)
30.09.2014
- Interview Feature with our new art director on Gamasutra
19.09.2014
- Deutsche Startups: “Als Gründer sollte man nicht an den Exit denken” (German)
25.06.2014
- Making Games Magazine 3/2014 (German)
04.06.2014
- Skillgaming.de Review Balloon Blast (German)
19.05.2014
- Gamesindustry.biz about GameDuell's Casual Connect Presence
20.02.2014
- Bloomberg TV: What Merkel's Re-Election Means to German Startups
23.09.2013
- Die Welt: Weniger Bauchgefühl, mehr Analyse (German)
18.09.2013
- Muensterlandzeitung.de: 18, 20, weg - Skatspiel wird 200 Jahre alt (German)
04.09.2013
- Tagesspiegel: Das liebste Spiel der Deutschen (German)
04.09.2013
- Pocketgamer: Don't count on chat apps being the next big gaming platform, warns GameDuell
10.08.2013
- GDC Europe: Michael Kalkowski talks about 120 new game positions GameDuell intends to fill this year
08.08.2013
- GamesMarkt: GameDuell investiert in Wachstumsmärkte (German)
30.07.2013
- Westfalenpost: Entwickler-Branche boomt - Smartphone-Spiele immer beliebter (German)
24.06.2013
- Morgenweb: Trend zu einfachen Spielen (German)
14.06.2013
- Gamesauce: Casual Connect Asia - GameDuell founder Michael Kalkowski talks about "What Brings Out the Best in People"
21.05.2013
- Deutsche-Startups: "Und herzlich winkt die Queen – Hausbesuch bei GameDuell" (German)
17.05.2013
- RBB Inforadio: "Berliner IT-Branche im Aufwind" (German)
26.04.2013
- TV Berlin: "Politik trifft auf Online-Spiele" (German)
25.04.2013
- Tagesspiegel: "Spielend informiert" (German)
25.04.2013
- IHK Berlin: "Angekommen im Mittelstand? Wirtschaft und Politik zu Besuch bei erfolgreichen Berliner Start-Up Unternehmen" (German)
25.04.2013
- Berliner Zeitung: "Außer Berlin nur noch das Ausland" (German)
12.04.2013
- Gamesindustry.biz: "GameDuell: Langfristig komplexere Spiele schaffen" (German)
27.03.2013
- Telecomsemea.net: "tyntec verifies GameDuell's 80m users"
22.03.2013
- IT-Director.com: "Leading Casual Games Provider Selects tyntec For SMS Verification"
21.03.2013
- Pandodaily.com: "GameDuell turns to tyntec for SMS-based verification of gamer identities"
21.03.2013
- Pocketgamer.biz: "GameDuell CEO Bolik on how mobile fits into the social publisher's aggressive cross-platform plans"
21.03.2013
- Pocketgamer.biz: "Berlin special: A snapshot of how German online game companies are successfully going mobile"
21.03.2013
- Pockergamer.biz: "Gis a job: GameDuell kicks off mobile push with 130 new jobs"
28.02.2013
- Siliconallee.com: "GameDuell Eyes Up Casual Gaming; Recruiting 120 New Staff"
27.02.2013
- Gamasutra.com: "Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 - A Showcase"
12.02.2013
- Gruenderszene.de: "Berlin 2.0: Eine Gründung ist kein Sprint, sondern ein echter Marathon" (German)
22.08.2012
- Insidesocialgames.com: "GameDuell: Cross-platform players monetize 25% more than those on a single platform"
20.07.2012
- Gamesindustry.biz: "HTML5: Too Good To Be True?"
11.05.2012
International games expert Erik t' Sas joins Berlin-based studio
GameDuell welcomes another prominent games industry veteran within its management circle. In mid April Erik t’ Sas took over the lead of GameDuell’s Live Game Operations. In this role he will be responsible for driving the business with all released web, social and mobile games and the company’s popular community platform GameDuell.com. Bringing in many years of game development and management experience he will be responsible for boosting GameDuell’s profitable games operations further. “With his wide-ranging experience in management and live operations Erik t’ Sas complements our management team ideally. Having him on board we are perfectly set to lift our games business to the next level”, comments Kai Bolik, CEO of GameDuell, on the hiring.
Erik t’ Sas bringing in 15 years of international management expertise
Erik t’ Sas most recently reshaped and managed Dhruva Interactive’s distributed game development services and teams. Based in Bangalore he was responsible for the worldwide strategy and operations. Before his Indian engagement Erik led the mobile business strategy, operations and development at Kixeye as General Manager Mobile in San Francisco. From 2008 to 2010 he co-founded and managed Rough Cookie, where he created the award-winning mobile tower defense game, Star Defense, which was highlighted in Apple’s 2009 WWDC keynote to demonstrate the power of the iPhone. When Rough Cookie was acquired by DeNA in 2011 Erik t’ Sas continued to lead the Mobage social mobile platform as Chief Creative Officer. Prior to Rough Cookie, he founded Khaeon Games in 1999, where he led the development of various multi-platform game properties and teams, including the critically acclaimed Unreal-based fantasy MMORPG, The Chronicles of Spellborn, and the Fight Game franchise.
GameDuell is constantly looking for experienced developers and IT experts, game designers, artists, project managers and analysts to join its team of 215 in Berlin. All job offers are available on Inside.GameDuell.com/Jobs.
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