http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ The Games Company News Feed. en-en Thursday 20th 2008f November 2008 04:44:07 PM TGC – The Games Company starts off into the first day of this year´s Games Convention with fantastic news for all RPG fans. The Berlin-based publisher was able to acquire the most successful German RPG license for the development of a high-end game. The license has been granted by Chromatix GmbH, the holder of rights of the globally successful “TDE” brand. “TDE – The Dark Eye” has enthralled RPG fans all over the world (in German: “DSA – Das Schwarze Auge”) for the last 24 years. At the beginning “TDE” was only available as a traditional pen & paper role-playing game, but within the last 16 years the license has also been used for four PC games. TGC´s latest “TDE” project offers the most intensive role-playing experience so far in the idyllic but dangerous fantasy world Aventuria. TGC´s in-house development unit is responsible for the realization of the ambitious “TDE” adaptation. In Berlin the developers work at an action-oriented role-playing game that is to impose new standards within the genre with its enormous depth and an epic, movie-like story. The detailed background story sends the player on a thrilling adventurous journey through the vast “TDE” world Aventuria. The charismatic main character is controlled from a freely zoomable and pivotable isometric perspective. The authentic fights are based on the current edition of the “TDE” rulebook. “I am glad that we have got the coveted license”, says Carsten Strehse, CEO at TGC. “It emphasizes TGC´s high ambitions to be able to use such an attractive license for our lavish game development. This enables us to provide players not only with a very good but with an extraordinary RPG. We strive to set new standards in story-telling, graphics and game worlds with our “TDE” project.” “An action-oriented role-playing game offers fascinating new possibilities to carry the player off to the varied world of Aventuria”, says Dr. Stefan Blanck, managing director at Chromatix. “I am convinced that gripping gameplay combined with an emotional story will offer an exciting experience to role-players.” http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 508 Wednesday 20th 2008f August 2008 01:43:33 PM Berlin, 27th June 2008. The globally operating publisher TGC – The Games Company announces a long-term cooperation with SPEED-LINK. SPEED-LINK will be TGC´s exclusive trade partner for peripheral devices and equip the publisher with high-quality products from its portfolio in the future. The cooperation agreement comprises hardware equipment for presentations and trade fairs, for the workplaces at TGC and its proprietary development studio Silver Style Entertainment as well as the provision of prizes for competitions, such as sound systems, keyboards or mouses. SPEED-LINK will also integrate TGC into its communication activities. On the other hand SPEED-LINK will benefit from TGC´s marketing and PR campaigns and from on-pack integration of their products with selected TGC titles. In addition, both companies plan to intensely cooperate at trade fair appearances. SPEED-LINK is one of the leading brands in the market of computer and video games accessories in Europe. The portfolio includes more than 300 different products available in more than 30 countries worldwide. SPEED-LINK has sold more than 10 millions of sound systems and more than 15 millions of game controllers so far, which is an indicator for the high quality and the modern design of the products. The manufacturer of SPEED-LINK products is the internationally operating Jöllenbeck GmbH situated in Weertzen, Niedersachsen. Tim Jöllenbeck, managing director of Jöllenbeck GmbH, comments on the cooperation with TGC: „ We are delighted to have won a German publisher distiguishing itself with innovative proprietary products and attractive licenses. I am sure that the cooperation will bring forth many positive impulses and advantages for both parties involved.“ Christian Sauerteig, marketing director at TGC, is glad about the hardware cooperation: „SPEED-LINK is an established brand very popular with gamers and with enormous prestige in the highly competitive e-sports sector. The large-scale cooperation with SPEED-LINK enables us to expand the target-group affine communicative measures supporting our products.“ http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 457 Friday 27th 2008f June 2008 03:25:01 PM Berlin, 6th June 2008. In order to press ahead with its stronger focus on international business and expansion plans, TGC – The Games Company is currently restructuring its departments. After promoting Christian Sauerteig to marketing director and Julien Renzaho to sales director, the Berlin-based publisher is announcing two further personnel changes and one new entrant today. These measures complete the setting up of the Board of Directors. Former game content manager Sebastian Baehr is now responsible for product buying as a business development director games and coordinates the evaluation of new projects and business schemes. In addition, Baehr expands TGC´s network of international partners. Furthermore, TGC extends the responsibilities of financial director Matthias Treptow with the newly established human resources sector. As director finance and human resources Treptow is now also in charge of human resource management. In the course of restructuring TGC was able to recruit Peer Fischer, a lawyer with great experience in the entertainment industry. During the last seven years Peer Fischer worked as a solicitor for the law office Meissner & Meissner in Berlin as well as for the Australian law office Blueprint Law. At TGC Fischer fills the position of the director legal and business affairs. Markus Malti, managing director TGC, sees great potential in the personnel restructuring: “I am very pleased that we were able to recruit such a competent Board of Directors. With the new structure all our departments are optimally set up for our ambitious aims and future plans.” http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 458 Friday 06th 2008f June 2008 05:57:51 PM Berlin, 29th May 2008. The Berlin-based publisher TGC – The Games Company is expanding further and will enforce its international activities in the future. Furthermore, TGC will massively extend its staff until the end of the year. For these purposes TGC will set up a Board of Directors and restructure its departments according to the Anglo-American system. In a first step TGC has promoted its marketing manager Christian Sauerteig to marketing director. In this newly established position, the industry expert will not only attend to the international marketing of the continually growing multi-platform portfolio, but also enforce the worldwide puchase of high-quality licenses in entertainment sectors such as TV, cinema or film. Additionally, Sauerteig will press ahead with TGC´s expansion plans. TGC – The Games Company has also extended the responsibilities of international sales manager Julien Renzaho, who has been promoted to sales director. In his new position Renzaho will structure and coordinate the activities of the sales department according to TGC´s expansion plans. TGC´s general manager Markus Malti is curiously looking forward to the next few months: “Christian Sauerteig is the ideal person to fill the highly responsible position of a marketing director. He has done an excellent job during the last two years and significantly contributed to the success story of TGC. With Julien Renzaho as a sales manager we are optimally prepared for tackling the increasing sales activities in a smooth and well organized manner.” http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 465 Thursday 29th 2008f May 2008 11:54:28 AM The publisher TGC – The Games Company and 10TACLE STUDIOS AG have decided not to realize the intended takeover. From now on TGC – The Games Company again acts as an autonomous and independent developer and marketer of computer and video games. In December 2007 it was announced that TGC – The Games Company would be taken over by 10TACLE STUDIOS AG in order to expand the proprietary development capacities in the sectors of international multi-platform titles, casual gaming and licensed titles for the mass market. Due to the restructuring and new focussing of business activities at 10TACLE STUDIOS AG the agreed increase in capital has not been realized yet. Instead the parties have decided on reversing the transaction. The TGC management, led by Markus Malti and Carsten Strehse, has opted for returning to autonomy and will take over the shares of the company. “With the reverse transaction we have taken a step in the interests of all parties involved. TGC can continue its successful work and 10TACLE STUDIOS AG are free to newly position their company strategically as planned”, declares Markus Malti, CEO of TGC. Carsten Strehse, CEO and development director of TGC, states: “All parties agree that the orientation of our business as a publisher with internal and external development competencies as vital assets does not fit into the new concept of the 10TACLE group. The reverse transaction is the logical consequence of this realization. Now we will expand our proprietary development capacities and invest in the development sector on a large scale.” TGC is a Berlin-based internationally acting developer and marketer of computer and video games for the PC and all current game consoles. The firm is being managed by Markus Malti and Carsten Strehse. TGC was founded at the beginning of 2006 as a merger of 15 year old German development studio Silver Style and a group of experienced representatives of the computer games industry headed by co-founder Markus Malti. Today TGC employs a staff of over 40. With Silver Style Entertainment TGC maintains a renowned proprietary development unit. Silver Style Entertainment has enjoyed international success with games such as “Soldiers of Anarchy”, “The Fall – Last Days of Gaia” and “Simon the Sorcerer – Chaos Happens”. “Simon the Sorcerer – Chaos Happens” has recently been awarded the German Developer Award 2007 in the category “Best German Children’s Game”. TGC also provides games based on popular licences like the well-known German casting show “Germany’s Next Topmodel” or “Wetten, dass..?”, the most successful television show in Europe, the DEL (German Ice Hockey League) or the HBL (German National Handball League), proving TGC´s commitment to high-quality productions. http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 452 Friday 09th 2008f May 2008 04:03:54 PM Berlin, 27th March 2008. The idea is simple and brilliant: Those who are mesmerized by the TV show around aspiring young beauties will also love to play the show on TV. In May, close to the finale of „Germany’s Next Topmodel“, TGC lets „Germany’s Next Topmodel“, a DVDi title licensed from MM MerchandisingMedia, the licensing company of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, hit the catwalk. In the interactive games show true fans of the young model talents will find out how familiar they really are with the world of mannequins. 3.72 millions of TV viewers watched the kickoff of the current season – therefore the silver disk will almost certainly prove a success. Passionate viewers of „Germany’s Next Topmodel“, a series based on „America’s Next Top Model“ by Tyra Banks, switch on their DVD players, grip their remote controls and get catapulted from the couch to the catwalk straightaway. Just as colourful as fashion trends are the game options: fans tackle four different challenges. They prove their detailed knowledge of the TV shows and candidates as well as their proficiency concerning the model cosmos as a whole. The program outrightly detects knowledge and memory gaps, but those who find all the right answers and show that they are real insiders, crack the code in the end and will be treated with the best outtakes from the current season of „Germany’s Next Topmodel“. „The attractive license, a mainstream platform and the wonderful straightforward party-proven game concept take the audience by storm. We are very glad that MM MerchandisingMedia has granted us the license for this exclusive DVDi game“, says Christian Sauerteig, TGC’s marketing manager. Sabine Eckhardt, managing director at MM MerchandisingMedia: „With the interactive DVD we offer the viewers of the ProSieben TV show some attractive added value. The fans will be able to virtually become part of the model world in their own living-rooms and master the same challenges as the candidates in the show.“ http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 451 Tuesday 01st 2008f April 2008 09:42:45 AM 03/20/2008 | The multi-platform publisher TGC – The Games Company has been able to win the development studio netmin games, situated in Mainz, Germany, for future projects. With this co-operation TGC expands its global developers' network with true experts in the area of sports management games. In order to profit from Christmas sales, TGC and netmin games are planning the co-production of a new genre highlight that will play in the first league in terms of gameplay and technology. netmin games has been adding to the genre with innovative PC games since 2001. The developers from Mainz, Germany, are renowned for their ability to create sports management simulations that are both complex, true to life and easy to use. With good reason, as netmin's Hand Ball Manager series has been one of the most successful sports management simulations during the last few years, right behind EA's Fussball Manager. Carsten Strehse, CEO at TGC, is glad about the competent addition to the network: „The partnership with the highly experienced development studio netmin games enables us to extend our development competences within the sports genre. It is an ideal addition regarding TGC's high ambitions in the sector of sports management games.“ Thomas Schreiber, managing director at netmin games, finds that TGC is the ideal partner for the future: „We are looking forward to the co-operation with TGC – The Games Company. Our goal is to develop a sports manager that is complex, easy to use and visually impressive. We are convinced that TGC will successfully place this ambitious project in national and international markets.“ http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 450 Tuesday 25th 2008f March 2008 09:50:51 AM Publisher TGC – The Games Company expands its staff. Forthwith Jessica Pfefferkorn and Julien Renzaho support the Berlin-based team. Pfefferkorn comes from dtp Entertainment AG where she last worked as a marketing coordinator for the full price games segment. Before that the economic sciences graduate was employed at the agency group Scholz & Friends in Hamburg and Budapest. In the position of a marketing & sales coordinator at TGC Pfefferkorn acts as a link between the departments and reports directly to marketing manager Christian Sauerteig. As an international sales manager Julian Renzaho is responsible for the international sales activities of the expanding publisher. Renzaho had been working in the same position at Frogster Interactive Pictures AG before and coordinating international sales at Pointsoft SA for several years. Before that he gathered sales experience in the entertainment industry, among others at Joan Records Entertainment and Hemming AG. Julian Renzaho reports to general manager Markus Malti. Christian Sauerteig, marketing manager at TGC, welcomes the staff expansion: „Exciting projects and manifold challenges await TGC in 2008. Our new colleagues enrich the Company with their drive and excellent expertise. We are very well prepared to accomplish our ambitious goals.“ General manager Markus Malti appreciates the additional expertise brought in by the new staff members. „With his ten years in the industry Julien Renzaho provides valuable contacts and expert knowledge. Considering our expanding company and product policies, TGC needs experienced workers fitting into our ambitious team just now.“ http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 447 Friday 07th 2008f March 2008 09:47:46 AM International In-game ad firm, JOGO Media, announced today a multi-title, multi-year agreement with publisher / developer TGC – The Games Company. With the completion of this arrangement, selected premium TGC games will be marketed exclusively by JOGO to its expanding list of global advertisers. With TGC’s portfolio of current and upcoming titles, JOGO advertisers will have the opportunity to engage a diverse audience across multiple game genres. Over the course of the engagement and In recognition of gamer demand, TGC anticipates releasing titles spanning the popular Sports, Racing, Strategy and Adventure genres. JOGO’s unique approach and multi-continent foot-print will compliment TGC’s game release strategy of worldwide, cross-platform titles. Through its title success, TGC caught the attention of publicly traded 10TACLE STUDIOS AG, who integrated TGC at the end of 2007. 10TACLE STUDIOS AG is listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and is one of Europe's leading, independent companies for the development and production of high-value computer and video games. JOGO welcomed the integration as it has an existing relationship with 10TACLE STUDIOS and has already shared marketing success through recent racing title, BMW M3 Challenge. Christian Sauerteig, Marketing Director at TGC, anticipates a “multi-faceted” value through its partnership with JOGO Media: "When properly handled, real-world brands add significant authenticity to our game environments. Gamers associate with and recognize this as a more realistic portrait of the real world. In turn, the achievable advertising income can be applied against the production of even higher quality games and unique IP. With that, everyone profits from our partnership with JOGO – from the players to our advertising partners.“ “We look forward to building further value for TGC and our advertisers through our new relationship” said JOGO CEO, Jay Drago. “TGC has demonstrated its affinity for delivering premium games and we are excited by the opportunity to inject our marketing experience into their titles. We see a significant advantage for our advertisers as TGCs diverse game portfolio will offer both dynamic and custom brand integrations.” http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 429 Tuesday 19th 2008f February 2008 05:30:44 PM In the course of their continued strategic growth 10TACLE STUDIOS AG has taken over the Berlin-based development and marketing firm TGC – The Games Company Worldwide GmbH. The 10TACLE STUDIOS AG executive committee today decided with the approval of the board of directors to increase share capital by 454,545.00 Euros through the issuance of 454,545 new bearer shares. The capital increase takes place in exchange for assets in kind under exclusion of the subscription rights of authorized capital shareholders. Shareholders in the Berlin-based TGC The Games Company Worldwide GmbH (TGC) were admitted to the subscription of the 454,545 new shares. In return the shares in TGC are to be transferred to 10TACLE STUDIOS AG. The increase in capital is based on an evaluation of the TGC at five million Euros and an issue price of eleven Euros per new share. The majority of the new shares are subject to a lock-up period. TGC is a Berlin-based internationally active developer and marketer of computer and video games for the PC and all current game consoles. The firm is under the management of Markus Malti and Carsten Strehse. TGC arose at the start of 2006 from a merger of 15 year branch veteran German development studio Silver Style and a group of experienced personnel from the branch centered around co-founder Markus Malti. Today TGC employs a staff of over 25. TGC has their own development unit in the form of renowned Silver Style Entertainment. Silver Style Entertainment has enjoyed international success with games such as “Soldiers of Anarchy”, “The Fall – Last Days of Gaia” and “Simon the Sorcerer – Chaos Happens”. “Simon the Sorcerer – Chaos Happens” was recently awarded the German Developer Award 2007 in the category “Best German Children’s’ Game”.TGC also develops games for famous licences such as Europe’s most successful television show “Wetten, dass..?”, the DEL (German Ice Hockey League) or the HBL (German National Handball League), providing impressive proof of their commitment to high-quality productions. With the takeover of TGC, 10TACLE STUDIOS AG further expands their development capacities in the areas of Casual Gaming and Licence Realization for the mass market. In addition, 10TACLE STUDIOS AG secures themselves access to a comprehensive high-quality 2008/2009 line-up featuring releases for all relevant platforms such as the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and PC, to name but a few. Commenting on the importance of the new acquisition, Michele Pes, 10TACLE STUDIOS AG CEO said, “Through the TGC – The Games Company takeover, 10TACLE STUDIOS AG underlines their commitment to developing and marketing outstanding games, both nationally and internationally. With their comprehensive line-up and their pool of high-quality licences from the TV, movie and entertainment sectors TGC represents a first-class addition to our existing business portfolio. Markus Malti, Carsten Strehse and the entire TGC team have delivered first-class work over the last few months, work that we will now continue together. I look forward to the upcoming projects and the continued expansion of our development capabilities within the business.” In a joint statement TGC – The Games Company Worldwide GmbH Managers Markus Malti and Carsten Strehse explained “We are incredibly pleased to be part of such a renowned and successful firm and look forward to playing an active role in the continued success of 10TACLE STUDIOS AG. As a new co-partner in 10TACLE STUDIOS AG we have complete confidence in, and great expectations for, our joint future. Our development and marketing expertise along with our highly-motivated team will further strengthen both the creativity and the quality of 10TACLE STUDIOS AG output.” About TGC – The Games Company TGC – The Games Company is an internationally focussed publisher of computer and video games, situated in Berlin, Germany. TGC have their own in-house development studios realizing any kind of interactive entertainment software from high-quality full-price games to commissioned productions. Since its foundation in 2006 TGC – The Games Company has been publishing licensed products as well as commissioned and proprietary productions, mainly in the full-price segment. An ambitious team with long-time experience in the games industry and a strong network of partners are TGC’s great advantages. In 2007/2008 TGC will continue to publish further high-quality products for PC and next-gen consoles. For more information please see www.the-games-company.com. About 10TACLE STUDIOS AG: Listed in the General Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, 10TACLE STUDIOS AG (WKN: TACL10, ISIN DE000TACL107) is one of Europe’s leading independent developers and producers of high-end computer and video games. 10TACLE STUDIOS AG produces top-quality products that meet international development standards, and its product portfolio covers all relevant, high-growth segments in the games market. Currently, around 440 employees work for the Company at its headquarters in Darmstadt and the development sites in Berlin, Darmstadt, Duisburg, Hanover Bratislava, Budapest, Charleroi, London, Singapore and Vienna. 10TACLE STUDIOS AG’s revenue increased in the first six month of 2007 to €19.4 million EUR (first six months 2006: €12.71 million EUR). During the same period, EBIT increased sharply to €3.37 million EUR (previous year: €2.3 million EUR). http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 397 Wednesday 19th 2007f December 2007 11:07:28 AM Publisher TGC – The Games Company expands its field of activity and turns to developing games for next generation consoles. The certified Nintendo partner has acquired the license of an entire game series for Nintendo's booming Wii console. From 20th December TGC will publish the Popcorn Arcade series, which is very popular in Britain, under its label Green Kangaroo in German speaking territories. Five games developed by DDI – Data Design Interactive will make the start and bring pure console gaming fun to German living-rooms at the very reasonable price of 29,99 Euro. The license deal with the British games developer DDI includes 24 titles with high-value casual content appealing to younger and older gamers alike. In addition to the action racers Billy the Wizard and Monster Trux Arenas the action adventures Anubis II, Ninjabread Man and Rock `n´ Roll Adventures will hit the stores in December. Wii gamers are looking forward to further regular releases in 2008. Christian Sauerteig, Marketing Manager TGC, believes in the enormous potential of the new strategic direction: „The cooperation with Data Design Interactive is a great step forward for us on the way to become a multi-platform publisher. Our ambitious commitment benefits from starting off with a Wii series that has already been successful in Britain and we are expecting favourable sales figures.“ Stewart Green, Marketing Director Data Design Interactive, is very glad to have found a potent German publisher for the powerful Wii brand: “With the range of titles offered through our Popcorn Arcade label growing to 24 we needed a distribution partner capable of handling such a wide variety of games. The Games Company’s professionalism and proven expertise shone through and we are very happy and confident to have them on board.” http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 396 Monday 10th 2007f December 2007 04:02:06 PM Last weekend the Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig ended with record attendance and media coverage. The Berlin-based games publisher TGC – The Games Company gives a consistently positive summary of the world’s biggest games fair. Presented games like the adventure „Everlight – Power to the Elves!“, the sports management simulation „Heimspiel – Handballmanager 2008“, the strategy game „War Leaders: Clash of Nations“ as well as the newly announced titles „Heimspiel – Basketballmanager 2008“ and „Tell“ (the official game of the identically named movie) filled journalists and gamers with enthusiasm. The ambitious publisher from Germany’s capital city profited from their presence at the GC in many ways: Gamers came in flocks to the TGC Beach Club in the consumer area and participated in the photo session that was accompanied by a competition. The cooperation with energy drink manufacturer rhino’s proved to be a success, so that both partners agreed to intensify their collaboration in future projects. Especially our neighbours from Austria and Switzerland appreciated the adventure „Tell“, which will be released at the same date as the movie. Future potential projects cast their shadows and new international business clients open doors to new markets. Markus Malti, CEO of TGC, is glad about the current trend: „With our presence at this year’s GC we managed to incite great awareness of potential partners, journalists and customers. The Games Convention has not only affirmed but expanded its good reputation as the games industry’s leading exhibition.“ http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 395 Friday 31st 2007f August 2007 12:54:55 PM TGC – The Games Company recognize the signs of the times and intensify their internet communication activities regarding future games releases. The Berlin-based games publisher will put its trust in the competence of Way to Blue, Great Britain’s leading online PR and promotion agency. As from August the creative heads of Way to Blue’s German dependency will fully provide TGC with their experience in the world of digital media. The cooperation will set off with the release of the promising PC title „Heimspiel – Handballmanager 2008“, Way to Blue’s first TGC project. The point-and-click adventure “Everlight – Power to the Elves”, set for release in September, will also profit from the dynamic, innovative approach and specialized PR strategies of Way to Blue. Katie Waxman, international director of Way to Blue, is looking forward to a successful cooperation: „As an internationally oriented publisher of computer- and video games, TGC is a very important partner for us. We are glad to support TGC in bringing their outstanding computer games to market.“ Christian Sauerteig, marketing manager of TGC, adds: „We are sure that we have found a reliable and versatile partner in Way to Blue, knowing how to pointedly place our games titles in internet media with a maximum range of coverage.“ http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 393 Friday 17th 2007f August 2007 12:32:55 PM After a surprising debut at the GC 2006 the young Berlin-based publisher TGC – The Games Company will be present at the Business Center as well as in the open-air zone of the consumer area this year. The games publisher from Germany’s capital city will show its upcoming fall and winter highlights: Heimspiel Handballmanager 2008, the imaginative point & click adventure Everlight – Power to the Elves and the epic strategy title War Leaders: Clash of Nations. Two further titles of their GC line-up that have been kept secret so far, will be presented as world premieres to trade visitors behind closed doors. At stand E 30 in hall 1 of the Business Center, the expanding TGC team, led by general managers Markus Malti and Carsten Strehse, is looking forward to inspired discussions with trade and media partners. The game content managers eagerly expect project offers from national and international game developers. TGC’s international sales management will also be on location at the publisher’s 150 square meters exhibition space. In the open-air zone A 07/11, TGC will welcome public visitors in an atmospheric beach club. Summer feeling, several campaigns and fantastic competitions will draw the attention of the visitors. They will be provided with information on TGC’s diversified line-up, while relaxing from a demanding day at the fair in comfortable beach chairs. Christian Sauerteig, marketing manager TGC, is looking forward to the trade fair in Leipzig: “After the massive changes in the E3 concept, this year’s Games Convention will receive even more public attention”. He adds: “For TGC – The Games Company as a young, ambitious and internationally focussed company, the Games Convention is an extremely important event. We therefore have doubled our exhibition space at the Business Center this year and will be present in the consumer area for the first time.” http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 394 Friday 10th 2007f August 2007 12:45:44 PM TGC – The Games Company erweitert sein PR-Team um Martin Krämer. Der studierte Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker und bisherige Community Manager übernimmt ab sofort den Posten des PR-Managers und berichtet direkt an Marketing Manager Christian Sauerteig. In neuer Position entwickelt und koordiniert der 27-jährige alle relevanten PR-Strategien und Maßnahmen, leitet die nationale und internationale Medienarbeit, führt Marktanalysen durch und initiiert strategische Allianzen mit Medien- und Industriepartnern. Während seines Studiums an der FH Flensburg setzte der passionierte Gamer klare Schwerpunkte im operativen und taktischen Informationsmanagement. Anschließend sammelte der Kommunikationsexperte in seiner Funktion als TGCs Community Manager erste PR-Erfahrungen. Krämers Berufung zum PR-Manager sieht Sauerteig als folgerichtigen Schritt in der Personalpolitik: „Wir verfolgen ehrgeizige Pläne und viel versprechende Projekte für 2007. Gerade jetzt sind klare Kommunikationsstrategien gefragt. Martin Krämer hat schon in den ersten Monaten seiner Unternehmenszugehörigkeit einen breiten Wissenshorizont bewiesen und wird damit maßgeblich zum Erfolg unserer Produkte beitragen.“ http://www.the-games-company.com/en/ 229 Friday 08th 2007f June 2007 06:03:04 PM