(Headup/Sluggerfly) Products Super Meat Boy 3D Super Meat Boy is a tough nut to crack in 3D, but Sluggerfly brought their absolute best to make a successor in style, form and humour. By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
The full main jury of the DCP 2026 (BMFTR) People This is the Main Jury Who Decided the Best German Games of 2026 The winners of the DCP are decided; we just don't know who they are yet. Yesterday and today, the Main Jury of the German Computer Game Award has gathered and ruled over the fate of this year's best German games. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
More money in the bank for board game authors, at least through VG Wort royalties (www.kaboompics.com) Business VG Wort Now Includes Boardgame Authors, Royalties for Game Materials The German VG Wort, collecting society for authors, now uses the board game database of of the Altenburg Game Archive and releases royalties for board game authors. Spiele-Autoren-Zunft demands funding for the continued database maintenance from the Federal Government. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Products Super Meat Boy 3D Releases 31 March, Physical Releases Come 30 June The two Northrhine-Westphalian companies Sluggerfly and Headup are releasing Super Meat Boy 3D at the end of this month. The 3D version of the snappy precision platformers comes out for all platforms. Meridiem produces physical NSW2 ans PS5 versions in June. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Business Game Studies Watchlist 2026 #12 The Game Studies Watchlist newsletter, curated by Prof Dr Rudolf Inderst, is published weekly on GamesMarkt. This week's topics include the unforgivable in stories, the new DiGRA DACH chapter page, the Elizabeth Magie Prize for student papers and more. By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
Business Both Game Industry Conferences 2026 Have Opened Ticket Sales Katowice in June and Poznan in October: Both GIC in Poland have opened ticket sales now, with early bird discounts and a "buy one, get one 50% off" offer. The regular GIC in Poznan will once again take place next to Poznan Game Arena. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Business Nordic Game 2026 Premieres AI Track, First Talks Revealed For the first time, Nordic Game Spring 2026 will have a dedicated session track for the topic of AI in gaming. Now, the organisers have revealed the first talks and speakers from the track. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Business Elimu Goal and Futuregames Partner for African-European Be Ubuntu Game Jam The Be Ubuntu Game Jam by Elimu Goal and Futuregames wants to bring together teams and senior dev from Africa and Europe for united game development: The online jam will start on 14 April. Registration is open now. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Oh Apollo! (Blue Backpack) Products Blue Backpack's Next Game is Oh Apollo!, an Oracle Management Game With their next game, Blue Backpack might revisit the Constance visual style, but not the action genre: Oh Apollo! is a cosy management game in which players are Pythia, oracle of the greek god. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The Bus © Aerosoft and TML-Studios Products The Bus: As Realistic As a Berlin Trip If you miss the experiences a trip with Berlin’s BVG bus lines brings, but want to be at the helm, there’s no better way than The Bus by Aerosoft and TML-Studios. Even Hamburgian northern lights will get their fill. By Pascal Wagner • 5 min read
It’s Always Happy at Chubby’s is one of the funded titles. It's the first horror title by Pixel Maniacs (Pixel Maniacs) Products FFF Bayern Funds 14 Games With 1€ Mil in March 2026 Round Among the recently FFF-funded games are the next title by Slime King Games after Under the Island, Pixel Maniacs' first horror title, the successor to Tavern Talk by Gentle Troll, Chimera Entertainment's upcoming game and many more. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Saxonian Economy Minister Dirk Panter (left) giving the funding documents to Kreatives Sachsen (Ministry of Economy Saxonia) Business Kreatives Sachsen Reforms as GmbH, Gets Funding The former competence center of the cultural and creative industries in Saxonia, Kreatives Sachsen, has received structural funding from the Economy Ministry and restructures as a GmbH. As part of the cultural and creative industries, the gaming sector in Saxony could also benefit. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
