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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.

Caggtus 2026: Our Impressions — Webedia's FYNG City dominated the hall floor. It was effectively an integrated cityscape that included a stage, decorations, Webedia's content center, Samsung's ball pit and the Activision x Blizzard joint booth (GamesMarkt)

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Caggtus 2026: Our Impressions

As the games industry magazine for Europe and Germany, we had to visit caggtus. And while the biggest German LAN party is already enough to visit Leipzig, there was a lot more to love about the event than that.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

Insomnia Dev is Offering Booths at "Indie Castle" on gamescom — This knight builds his own castles: Insomnia MD and founder Mike Tkacz is the head behind the construction of the Indie Castle (Mike Tkacz)

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Insomnia Dev is Offering Booths at "Indie Castle" on gamescom

Insomnia Dev is building a whole castle at gamescom as a new indie booth in Hall 10. Booth space is still available, prices are transparent. A new livestream under the brand is planned as well.

By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read

RadiGaMe Transfer Conference Caps Deradicalisation Cluster — From left: Christoph Hebbecker of Attorney-Generalship Cologne, Levke Burfeind (HateAid), Sebastian Galla (Ruhr University Bochum) and moderator Robert Pelzer (TU Berlin) (GamesMarkt)

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RadiGaMe Transfer Conference Caps Deradicalisation Cluster

At the RadiGaMe cluster transfer conference, research partners from law, police, civil society, games industry and media gathered to exchange and consolidate their knowledge and research results.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Venice After Dark: "Developers Deserve a Partner who Loves Games" — From left: Helge Borgarts, Jan Klose (Artex) and Sebastian Grünwald (Grünwald)

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G+ Venice After Dark: "Developers Deserve a Partner who Loves Games"

Artex, Sebastian Grünwald and Weltenwandler have shadowdropped their adventure Venice after Dark on Friday at caggtus. We spoke to them about the publishing market for indies, the game's concepts and the difficult position of adventures today.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

Playables: Games by People, Not Companies — Michael Frei (left) and Mario von Rickenbach in their natural element (Playables)

G+ Playables: Games by People, Not Companies

Games have to be playable, but do Playables have to be games? With Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei, creativity is everything. We talked to the makers of KIDS, Time Flies and Pocket Boss about Switzerland, game feel and working with Panic.

By Pascal Wagner • 5 min read

Fair Play Democracy Steps Into the Light With Open Letter

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Fair Play Democracy Steps Into the Light With Open Letter

Fair Play Democracy, an alliance of academics and serious game makers together with over 50 signatories from games, politics, media and civil society is calling for games to use their power and possibilities to fight against anti-democratic sentiments. Everyone can now co-sign the open letter.

By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read

ByteRockers' and RBTV Debut Docuseries Indie Made — Daniel Budiman (left, RBTV) and Maik Reichelt (ByteRockers' Games)

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ByteRockers' and RBTV Debut Docuseries Indie Made

Showing how games "outside the mainstream" are made: Daniel Budiman of Rocket Beans and Maik Reichelt of ByteRockers' have kicked off their new joint documentary series at caggtus 2026.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Pithead Studio: Realising Our First "Indie" Game — A "Zeche" wherever they go: Björn and Jennifer Pankratz are Pithead Studios (Pithead).

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G+ Pithead Studio: Realising Our First "Indie" Game

Pithead Studio alias Björn and Jennifer Pankratz have released their first new game after Piranha Bytes on Friday, as a shadowdrop on Caggtus' Webedia FYNG show. We talked to them about being just the two of them again and what they wanted to bring back with Cralon.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

Josh Sawyer Opens 27th DemoDay at TU Munich (Update) — The organising team of 27th DemoDay TUM, the keynote speaker and a prominent streamer: Among them Johanna Pirker (center front), David Plecher (second from left), Josh Sawyer (center back) and Maurice Weber (third from left) (GamesMarket)

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Josh Sawyer Opens 27th DemoDay at TU Munich (Update)

New 'games professor' Johanna Pirker at TUM opens her first DemoDay with a bang: Josh Sawyer from Obsidian held the keynote about working in small teams in front of a full hall of students. The keynote is now free to watch online as well.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

Limbic's New City Builder Corsair Cove Debuts at FYNG, Two German Games Shadowdrop — Venice After Dark, Cralon and Corsair Cove were the stars of the show (Artex/Pithead/Limbic)

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Limbic's New City Builder Corsair Cove Debuts at FYNG, Two German Games Shadowdrop

After Friday evening's FYNG show at caggtus Leipzig 2026, Cralon by Pithead and Venice After Dark by Weltenwandler, Artex and Sebastian Grünwald were spontaneously released. Limbic Entertainments new pirate city builder Corsair Cove has been newly announced as well.

By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read

Confoederatio Ludens: Researching Swiss Game History — The CH Ludens crew regularly meets up for research and workshops (Pfister)

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G+ Confoederatio Ludens: Researching Swiss Game History

A team of researchers from four universities has been researching the entire history of Switzerland as a games production and publication market for three years now. We spoke to the team about entering the project’s last year, and how Switzerland’s past formed its present indie boom.

By Pascal Wagner • 7 min read

Luciana Viganò: A Lawyer Making Games, Making Politics — Luciana Viganò is a lawyer, game maker and President of the SGDA (Lezzilegal)

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G+ Luciana Viganò: A Lawyer Making Games, Making Politics

She studied law, then founded her own studio to make games, then joined Switzerland’s game developer association. Today, Luciana Viganó is President of the SGDA – without giving up any of her other paths.

By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read