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Pascal Wagner

Pascal Wagner

Pascal Wagner is Chief of Relations of GamesMarket and Senior Editor specialised in indie studios, politics, funding and academic coverage.

Microids Releases Richard Garfield’s King of Tokyo Digitally — Credit: lello / Microids

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Microids Releases Richard Garfield’s King of Tokyo Digitally

Richard Garfield's King of Tokyo will become a digital board game adaption made by Microids on 21 May, for all platforms. The physical editions will include exclusive board game expansion materials.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Net.Attack() by ByteRockers' Fully Launches 12 March 2026

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Net.Attack() by ByteRockers' Fully Launches 12 March 2026

The Early Access title Net.Attack(), in which players code their own Bullet Heaven attack patterns, releases its full version on 12 March. Developers behind the game is Berlin studio and publisher ByteRockers'.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

2026 Elections in Baden-Württemberg: What Do the Parties Plan for Gaming? — Baden-Württemberg's State Parliament is elected on 8 March 2026. What are the positions of the parties in regards to the German gaming industry? (State Parliament licence-free from Wikipedia/Mike Ax/PlayStation)

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G+ 2026 Elections in Baden-Württemberg: What Do the Parties Plan for Gaming?

With Baden-Württemberg state elections coming in March, we are collecting the parties' positions on gaming and the games industry. Both currently governing parties have plans for the games funding through MFG, while the most elaborate plans come from the FDP.

By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read

Matteo Riatti Becomes Head of Games Division at Research Ministry — Soon heading the BMFTR Games Division: Dr Matteo Riatti, formerly head of the games funding at the DLR Projektträger (Riatti/BMFTR)

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Matteo Riatti Becomes Head of Games Division at Research Ministry

Until now the head of games funding at the DLR Projektträger, from 1 March onward Head of the Games Division at the Federal Research Ministry: Matteo Riatti brings his expertise to Berlin.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Emergo Produces LLM-Battler Promptables for SWR X Lab — Paul Redetzky's Emergo Entertainment is making Promptables for ARD/SWR. (ARD/Emergo)

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Emergo Produces LLM-Battler Promptables for SWR X Lab

Bayreuth game studio Emergo Entertainment is making an LLM-driven creature battler in which you prompt your creature's attacks for the ARD. The idea is to explore the potential of LLMs in game development.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

2026 Elections in Berlin: What Do the Parties Plan for Gaming? — Berlin's House of Representatives is elected on 20 September 2026. What are the positions of the parties in regards to the German gaming industry? (Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin/PlayStation)

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G+ 2026 Elections in Berlin: What Do the Parties Plan for Gaming?

With the state elections coming in September in Germany's 'games capital' Berlin, we are collecting the parties' positions on gaming and the games industry. So far, the Greens have positioned themselves strongly for studios, the House of Games and XR, while the CDU do not mention games at all.

By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read

Nina Schild Has Been Promoted to Webedia’s PR Senior — Nina Schild is now Webedia Germany's Senior PR & Communications Manager (Webedia/Schild)

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Nina Schild Has Been Promoted to Webedia’s PR Senior

Webedia's Nina Schild, PR liaison for the German publications like GameStar, FYNG and GamePro, has been promoted to Senior position.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Assemble and Conradical Announce Idle Desktop Poker Card Corner

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Assemble and Conradical Announce Idle Desktop Poker Card Corner

Swiss dev Conradical Games, maker of Desktop Dungeon, and Wiesbaden-based publisher Assemble have announced Card Corner, a chill poker game for the corner of your screen. The demo is out now, the game on 9 March.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma — Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma © Marvelous Europe

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Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma is a spin-off of a spin-off. This action RPG, farming, and social simulation hybrid is made particularly accessible by a number of streamlining features without compromising the core elements.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read

Under the Island

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Under the Island

Under the Island by Slime King Games is more than a loveletter to The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. It brings so many of its own ideas to the table that it could well have been a Nintendo-made GBA Zelda itself.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

Discord: Game Screenshots Will Be Filtered By "AI Validation and Human Review" — Discord is currently clarifying a lot of questions regarding their age verification, but several questions emerge with new information given (Discord)

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G+ Discord: Game Screenshots Will Be Filtered By "AI Validation and Human Review"

In an interview with Discord, we were able to learn that game studios will have to look out for the content of screenshots on their Discord servers when the age verification rolls out. Questions about the security of ID data still remains in light of recent developments.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

Sandro Odak is ZA/UM's New Marketing Principle - PR & Influencer

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Sandro Odak is ZA/UM's New Marketing Principle - PR & Influencer

The company behind Disco Elysium recruits one of GSA's best PR heads: Sandro Odak, formerly of Techland, Microsoft and Webedia, is Marketing Principle - PR & Influencer for the company that is currently working on Zero Parades. His first job: Announcing the demo of the game for 23 February.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read