Holy cow, Germany hands out serious cash to its homegrown game award winners: Signalis won €60,000 for ‘Best Debut Game’

I’m sure a trophy from The Game Awards is a big deal for the winning developers, but is it better than cold, hard cash? That’s what winners of Germany’s annual Computer Game Awards go home with in the form of a national endowment, and I think I might take that over a handshake with Geoff Keighley.

This year’s Deutscher Computerspielpreis (DCP), as the event is known in its native tongue, took place on May 11 in front of a live audience for the first time since 2019. “Especially this year, the creative minds behind the games deserved this big stage, because the award-winning games were created under the difficult conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic,” German Games Industry Association managin director Felix Falk said.