The Bologna Game Farm project aims to foster the growth of new professional skills and the development of video game products in Emilia-Romagna and nationwide; to affirm the sector’s significance as a cultural factor and a driver of economic growth for the regional and national production systems; and to promote
The first day of the Bologna Game Farm accelerator program was dedicated to Budget and Business The first day of the acceleration program for the fifth edition of Bologna Game Farm, held on Friday, September 19, 2025, at the Serre dei Giardini Margherita, continued the approach established in the fourth
The Tokyo Game Show 2025 will take place from September 25 to 28 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, with six video game development companies from Emilia-Romagna participating in the Italian Pavilion organized by ICE — the Agency for the Promotion Abroad and Internationalization of Italian Companies (ICE) under the Ministry
On 18 September, a brand-new event to explore how to promote cultural heritage through video games On Thursday 18 September, the Lapidary of the Medieval Civic Museum in Bologna will host Heritage Game Farm: a day dedicated to promoting cultural heritage through video games, organised by the City Council as
Following the success of its participation in First Playable last June in Florence, which saw fourteen teams from the fourth and fifth editions of Bologna Game Farm take part, the video game accelerator will be attending Gamescom 2025, Europe’s leading video game event, which this year will take place from
The 2025 edition of Bologna Game Farm, like the previous one, will feature mentorship sessions open to the entire gaming ecosystem in Emilia-Romagna. The initiative is promoted and coordinated by the City of Bologna, co-funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region, organised with technical support from IIDEA and, once again this year,
On 6 June 2025, the final acceleration day of the Bologna Game Farm 2024 programme took place, focusing on two key aspects for any development studio: on the one hand, strategies for navigating the competitive mobile gaming market; on the other, techniques for presenting one’s project to potential publishers in
Once again this year, Bologna Game Farm will be attending First Playable, the leading business event for the video games sector in Italy, scheduled to take place in Florence from 11 to 13 June 2025, organised by IIDEA and the Toscana Film Commission – Fondazione Sistema Toscana, in collaboration with
They are awarded with a financial grant and a support programme developed in collaboration with IIDEA, the trade association for the video games industry in Italy The tradition of violin-making, the art of oratory, folklore tales, the Val Camonica, the Divine Comedy and the massacre of Kefalonia. These are the
The video game prototypes created by the eight winning teams of the fourth edition of Bologna Game Farm are ready, extended nationwide for the first time thanks to the involvement of the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy and CTE COBO. Bologna Game Farm, Emilia-Romagna’s public accelerator for the