Map Map - A Game About Maps is Pipapo's current project. The newly funded prototype is also about mapping (Pipapo) Funding Gamecity Hamburg Funds Map Map Successor and Four Other Prototypes The prototype funding session of Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft's Gamecity Hamburg has awarded money to five studios: Pipapo Games, Odd Zeroes, Studio Gutheil, Chasmic Drop and Bird Outside Studio. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
The sex toy project "Cute Little Fuckers" by Step Tranovich was funded through Kickstarter in 2020. It could not be posted there in 2026 briefly anymore (Step Tranovich) Products Kickstarter Takes Back Restrictions on Adult Content, But There's a Catch Kickstarter will not ban adult projects through its platform after community backlash. It says it was under pressure by payment providers, and that campaigners might still get into problems with the payment provider in the future. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
GIST Executive Board Member Cüneyt Devrim is one of the organisers. (GIST) People G+ Gaming Istanbul: "Istanbul's Biggest Advantage is Access" With Gaming Istanbul 2026's date reveal, we talked to Executive Board Member Cüneyt Devrim, about what defines Istanbul in the Turkish gaming market, how GIST handles B2B and B2C combination spaces and much more. By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
Campus DGSW Announces First Conference The German Society for Game Studies DGSW has announced its first conference at and together with Hochschule Darmstadt, only three weeks before the event takes place. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Impressions from the In Bloom event (Klang Games) Events Klang Games Holds 'In Bloom' Event for Seed during A Maze. During last week's start of A Maze. in Berlin, Klang Games held a gathering at their office for industry people, showing off their MMO Simulation Seed with a feature keynote, new playable content and the reveal of their companion app. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Products Steam Bans Japanese Adult Horror Title This Game Is Not Real From Release Japanese developer ruuya1124 announced that their game, which had garnered 24,000 wishlists on Steam already, would not be able to release there, likely because of mature content. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Dennis Hilla is newly appointed Social Media Manager for asap (Hilla) People Dennis Hilla Joins asap From Gameswelt Editor Dennis Hilla switches internally at Web Media: from Gameswelt to becoming Social Media Manager for brand agency asap. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Glow in the dark Lego building is part of the event. (World of Bricks) Products World of Bricks Comes to Munich on 27 May World of Bricks comes from Austria to Bavaria: From 27 May to 6 June, the Lego building expo, experience and market event takes place at Pineapple Park next to the Hirschgarten. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Lena Fischer (top left), Xenia Semilovsky (bottom left) and Musfira Naqvi are the new co-organisers of DeVersity Brunch (DeVersity) People DeVersity Brunch is Back With a New Crew Musfira Naqvi, Xenia Semilovsky and Lena Fischer have taken over organisation of DeVersity Brunch and bringing it back on 7 June 2026: At Kulturzentrum Luise in Munich. Registration is now open. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Business G+ Under the Hood: Thrifty Business In our regular GamesMarket developer series, game studios present pictures of what's going on under the hood of in their game making process. This time, Spellgarden Games leads us through the UI design process of the stamp cards in their upcoming game Thrifty Business. By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
Dewi van Zeggelaar Tabletop Women+ in Magic Launches Ally Ambassador Network Women+ in Magic has launched their Ally Network to find ambassadors that speak up for maginalised groups in MTG play spaces. Interested men can join a supporter network by filling out a form first. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Campus Game Studies Watchlist 2026 #18 The Game Studies Watchlist newsletter, curated by Prof Dr Rudolf Inderst, is published weekly on GamesMarket. This week's topics include Celeste & Wanderstop, inclusion & diversity newsletters, game preservation and more. By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read
