In the future, the Federal Government will promote the development of video games in Germany. For example, 50 million euros will be available for a games fund in the coming year, as the Budget Committee of the Bundestag decided on Thursday.

The industry association game spoke on Friday of a "historic step". For years, the association has been promoting better promotion in order to make Germany internationally more competitive as a location for game studios. Although the market for games had recently risen strongly in Germany, the proportion of local game developments had further slumped.

"Digital games are cultural and economic assets and not least drivers of innovation, for example, in the field of artificial intelligence," said the spokesman for digital policy of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group Tankred Schipanski. The support would therefore indirectly benefit other sectors as well.

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Even the digital policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group, Jens Zimmermann, sees the concrete promotion plans now being launched as "urgently needed" to strengthen Germany as a developer location.

Now it must go to develop the support program as soon as possible, said the game CEO Felix Falk.