Last year's trophy. (Nordic Game) Business Nordic Game Awards 2026: ARC Raiders, RV There Yet?, EU V and Battlefield are Nominated The Nordic Game Awards nominees for 2026 have been revealed. Hazelight's Split Fiction, Embark's ARC Raiders, Dune Awakening by Funcom and Battlefield 6 by EA can hope for several categories. Best Debut includes Nuggets Entertainment RV There Yet? as well as Discounty by Crinkle Cut Studio. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Picture: GamesMarket, Pascal Wagner @ cEDH Championship Munich 2025 Tabletop TCG Calendar Trading card games are on the rise globally, and even as networking tool in the games industry. Check all big TCG releases and events here - find sets to play, fairs to visit, and game industry network events waiting to happen with our GamesMarket TCG Calendar. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Business Flexion Launches Mobile Service Suite Exprexion To better the pipeline for alternative app stores on mobile, Flexion is launching Exprexion, a suite of three integrated services from upload to marketing. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Quad Head are succeeding in the friendslop space (Quad Head) People Quad Head's Pratfall Reaches 130k Sales in Two Weeks (Update) The former Oddsparks developers are back as indies and with a friendslop bang: Coop digging adventure Pratfall, developed within six months, has breached 130,000 sales in the two-week starting discount period. By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
(NG26) People Nordic Game 26 Reveals Full Program NG26 Spring, the upcoming Nordic Game conference from 26-29 May in Malmö, has shared the full schedule and lineup. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Ata Sergey Nowak and Suzerain game writer Adam Sharp at the Games for Change Festival 2025 (Torpor Games) Products Suzerain has Sold 650k Units, 500k on Steam Torpor Games' political narrative strategy Suzerain has sold more than 650,000 units, 500,000 of those on Steam. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Jörg Friedrich and the Paintbucket Team accepting the award for Best German Game, presented by Dorothee Bär. Products The Darkest Files is German Game of the Year, The Berlin Apartment and Tiny Bookshop Win Big Paintbucket Games unifies Best Serious Game and Best German Game for the first time ever at the Deutscher Computerspielpreis (DCP) 2026. Tiny Bookshop is Best Debut, Blue Backpack takes home three cash prizes for Constance and The Berlin Apartment. Anno 117 also takes home a deserved trophy. By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
Dorothee Bär, announcing the decision along with Fabian Mehring (GamesMarkt) Business German Computer Game Award Back To Alternating Between Munich and Berlin After it was gone for two years, the fixed rotation of the Deutscher Computerspielpreis between Berlin and Munich is back again. The last two years, the DCP location was chosen in open competition - however, Berlin and Munich had won anyway. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products InterfaceX26 Showcases Fake OS Games, Brings Users To Rally Valve for an Official Tag (Update) Cobalt Lane, Jumpy Bit, Grey Alien Games and Muscle Cat have teamed up for InterfaceX26, a Steam Showcase for "Fake OS" games. Apart from showcasing the games, InterfaceX26 gamifies tagging the games for an official Valve tag with a bustom web app. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Christmas for space and automation players: German Federal funding reveals the next Everspace and the next shapez title. Products G+ Rockfish Gets Maximum Funding, tobspr games over 2 Million for "Project 3" With the latest funding announcements from the Federal Ministry for Research, the maximum German games funding amount of 8 mil to Rockfish is official. Furthermore, tobspr might be working on shapez 3 already - with over 2 million in games funding. SimLand and Tap Nine also get significant amounts. By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
Business United Wizards of the Coast Seeks MTG: Arena Union The team behind the TCG videogame Magic: The Gathering Arena is driving for Wizards of the Coast to voluntarily recognise their new union United Wizards of the Coast. By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
From left: Alain Milly from Microids, Andreea Chifu from Bright Gambit and Max Kübler from Daedalic and moderator Laura Peter opening the first panel of the day (GamesMarkt) Business GG Bavaria Business Day 2026: Today's Program, Tomorrow's DCP (Update) The GG Bavaria Business Day on 28 April not only serves as a preamble event to tomorrow's DCP in Munich, it is also a welcome opportunity to showcase Bavaria's games industry and bring it into contact with funding and colleagues from around Europe. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
