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Publishing

Newzoo: GTA VI Grosses $260 Million in Its First Week of Pre-Orders

GTA VI is set to be a huge hit. But just how big? Based on their data from the first week of pre-orders, market analysts at Newzoo have ventured a forecast putting the launch week’s sales in the single-digit billion range.

By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read

Products

Leyline Creations Announces Strategy Game Guildrun

Munich-based Leyline Creations has announced its debut game, Guildrun. The team is collaborating with a dedicated community to take the autobattler genre in a new direction.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read

gamescom

Sega Announces Its gamescom 2026 Line-Up

Sega has announced its presence at gamescom 2026, where visitors will be able to play the publisher's biggest upcoming titles. These include Alien: Isolation 2, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, Stranger Than Heaven, Persona 4 Revival and Total War: Warhammer 40,000, among others.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read

gamescom

Gamescom Dev Talk Review: When You Wishlist Upon a Star

In our round-up of this week’s “Dev Talk” at gamescom dev, we look back at an analysis of what wishlists reveal about a game’s prospects. Gregory Weller from Generation Media presents data from a study on wishlists and offers insights to help put the results into context.

By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read

Campus

G+ Researcher Spotlight: Marion Plank

In our ongoing series about games researchers, we portrait the people wo bring game studies forward and define how game making is taught and learned at universities. Today in the spotlight is Marion Plank of IU International University, professor for Game Art.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

gamescom

gamescom Week 2026: All Day Events

Need to fill some gaps in your gamescom schedule, want to make new contacts, or just looking for a cold drink between meetings? Here’s a list of the events, receptions and booth parties taking place during the day at gamescom dev & gamescom.

By Team GamesMarket • 1 min read