Hendrik Lesser has been re-elected president of the European Video games Developer Federation (EGDF) because the organisation publicizes its 2026-2028 board.
Homo Ludens CEO David Rabineau and No Brakes Video games studio director Gediminas Tarasevicius have stepped down.
The EGDF board now consists of:
- Martine Spaans (Fourth Moon Video games COO, Dutch Video games Affiliation common supervisor)
- KooPee Hiltunen (Neogames Finland Affiliation director)
- Per Strömbäck (Gaming Tradition Basis board member, Stockholm Area Enterprise Council member)
- Hrvoje Mitic (GamesCo. head of enterprise growth, Croatian Recreation Growth Alliance secretary common, Splitscreen Croatia founder)
- Jakub Marszalkowski (Head of Video games Business Convention, Indie Video games Poland Basis co-founder and board member)
- Vanessa Kaplan (Syndicat Nationwide du Jeu Vidéo director common)
The EGDF has outlined its agenda for the subsequent two years, specializing in providing builders “a path to the highest of the worth chain” in addition to improved entry to funding, expertise, and abilities.
“The EGDF will proceed to observe and facilitate the event of the European sport business ecosystem, strengthen its collaboration with European sport growth studios, and enhance the European sport business’s world visibility,” the group mentioned.
“Moreover, as the sport business is a forerunner of AI-based instruments and applied sciences, the affiliation set a aim of turning into the primary AI-based European commerce affiliation.”
Earlier this week, the EGDF and Video Video games Europe (VGE) published the European Video Game Industry Insights Report 2024.
The report states that the European video games business generated €24 billion in turnover in 2024, with over 6,600 studios using greater than 95,000 individuals.
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