Transport Fever 3 is the most costly game ever developed by Swiss studio Urban Games and marks its first collaboration with Paradox Interactive. A gameplay video released three weeks before launch shows a shift in focus away from simply earning money with trains and trucks.
Hyrox, founded in 2017 in Hamburg and now a global phenomenon with more than 1.4 million participants, is changing hands as the owners of luxury brand Louis Vuitton (LVMH) move to acquire the company.
Rapunzel of Sweden, a hair extension e‑commerce company, cut its staff and reported a smaller loss last year, although revenues slipped slightly.
Italian Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida announced that the baby‑food brand Plasmon, owned for 62 years by Kraft Heinz, has been reacquired by the Italian company NewPrinces, highlighting the return of quality Italian food production to national ownership.
Swedish music‑creation platform Soundtrap, recently spun off from Spotify, secured a 40 million SEK investment from Industrifonden as it moves toward profitability.
The Swedish game developer Embark Studios saw its turnover jump 800% to reach the billion‑dollar range and posted a solid profit after moving 12 million game copies in just two months, as disclosed in its latest annual report. The company also warned of future risks, particularly related to its staff.
Romanian mattress retailer Dormeo Home SRL was fined €2,000 by the National Authority for the Supervision of Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP) after an investigation found the company continued to send marketing SMS and phone calls despite a consumer exercising their right to object, violating GDPR provisions.
Vinted announced that it will stop using Mangopay for seller payments in Germany and switch to its proprietary Vinted Pay system. The change, finalised on 5 October, will allow tighter control over wallets, bank‑account matching, security checks and identity verification. Vinted Pay has been piloted in the Baltic states and several Eastern and Southern European countries, while Vinted still relies on external providers such as Mangopay and Adyen in markets like the Netherlands, France and the UK. The move does not end Vinted’s partnership with Mangopay, which was extended earlier this year.
Beslist.nl’s early test of advertising within ChatGPT shows a click‑through rate more than twice that of Google Shopping and a CPC of about €0.20, indicating strong performance and potential for the new channel.
UK ticketing platform Tickets for Good raised £3.9 million to fund its international expansion and job creation in Sheffield, backing its low‑cost ticket service for NHS workers, teachers and charities.