Almost the entire Fishlabs team had been eagerly awaiting this moment for weeks and even months. And yesterday it had finally happened. At round about 10 o’clock in the morning we got a call from the transport company, telling us that a pretty big package had just been delivered to the foyer of our office building. Weighing more than hundred kilograms and measuring about two-and-a-half square meters, this giant cardbox monster contained a brand-new and feverishly anticipated addition to the Fishlabs team: our very own foosball table! We already had one in the old office in Hamburg/Winterhude, but according to those daring (or desperate) enough to give it a try, that older table wasn’t exactly a quality product. The new one, however, is a high-class, pro-quality Leonhart table that leaves nothing to be desired. So there’s a good chance that quite a few Fishlabs employees will stay a few hours longer at the office from now on and score a couple of goals after work[full]
Yesterday, we already shared that photo on Facebook and asked our fans what could be in the cardboard box... among others, they guessed a corpse, a space ship or an iPad with a 60-inch-display... 
When it comes to the table’s design, we have not only chosen white and blue players in order to represent the Fishlabs CI as closely as possible, but we have also branded all four sides of the table with our iconic anglerfish and the “Blauer Fisch” logo. For those of you who haven’t heard it yet, the “Blauer Fisch” (which is German for “Blue Fish”) is an un-official office party that we’re having on the last Thursday of the month. There, we usually have a couple of beers, play a couple of rounds of FIFA 13 or Soul Calibur V on the Xbox 360 and generally have a good and relaxed time together. And from now on we’ll surely also be playing quite a lot of foosball at the “Blauer Fisch” as well.
Getting the table up to our office on the 5th floor turned out to be quite tricky... luckily we were able to cramb it into the elevator once we took it out of the cardboard package.
All in all, the production and delivery of the customized Fishlabs table took about four weeks and it was more than worth the wait! We’ve already build it up yesterday evening after work and played a couple of matches. It’s helluva good fun and the table plays absolutely smoothly. So here’s to a lot of hard-fought foosball matches in Fishlabs office. Cheers!
There it stands in all its glory and beauty: Our very own Fishlabs foosball table! 
BTW: The colours of the players do not only resemble our own Fishlabs colours, but they also match those of my favourite soccer club, the Hamburger Sport Verein. What club do you cheer for and what colours would you have chosen for the players? Let us know in the comments!
If you’ve followed our story over the past couple of months, you will have noticed that we’ve recently added quite a lot of new talent to our team. Consequently, office space has more and more turned into a rare and highly treasured commodity at the Fishlabs headquarters. But that’s no longer the case. Because in late 2012 we’ve signed a rental agreement for an additional open-plan office on the fifth floor of the same building at Roedingsmarkt, whose first floor we’ve been occupying since our relocation to the very center of Hamburg in August 2011. And today the marketing and QA departments have finally moved to their new place of work.[full]
Hey guys, some of you might already have wondered why we’ve still not posted the next developer diary for Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova. Usually, our dev diaries are scheduled to be uploaded every second Wednesday around noon. And the eight dev diary is also already written and all the assets are prepared. But it’s still not there! Why, you might ask… well, the answer is quite simple. Since my work day started rather busy, I had originally planned to upload the next developer diary after lunch. However, before I could do so, the fire alarm in our office went off at ear-splitting volume. Apparently, something in the building’s basement had caught fire and hence everybody had to leave the office right away. A couple of moments later, three big fire trucks and several police cars arrived infront of the building and when it became clear that the fire-fighting operations would take a little longer, we were all told to go home early.[full] So instead of posting the eighth developer diary for Supernova, I went to the pub with a couple of colleagues for a beer and a few rounds of foosball. When my train back home passed our office about two-and-a-half hours later, it looked as if the fire fighters were finally packing their gear and the Starbucks on the ground floor was already selling coffee again. So I guess, the building didn’t go up in flames entirely and we’ll all be back at work tomorrow. Since I’ve got all the texts, screenshots and assets for the next dev diary saved at my computer at work, I can’t post it from my PC at home. But when I’m back at the office, I’ll so right away.