Daedalic Days 2026: All the Announcements

Publishing

Knights Peak Partners With Microids for Retail Sales of Hela: of Mice & Magic

Knights Peak, part of My.games, and the French publisher Microids have entered into a partnership. The partnership centres on the retail distribution of Hela in targeted territories and to selected retail partners.

By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read

Publishing

G+ "We've Been Extremely Lucky," Dave Richard of Behaviour Interactive About Dead by Daylight

During the anniversary celebrations of Dead by Daylight, we spoke with Dave Richard, the game's Senior Creative Director, about its continued success. After all, the game reached 250,000 concurrent players across all platforms in its tenth year.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 6 min read

Publishing

How Many Dudes?

How Many Dudes? from Butterscotch Shenanigans sold over 100,000 copies in just 50 hours. It's the studio's fastest-selling game to date. But what exactly is this roguelike autobattler all about?

By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read

Business

Beyond the Trailer: How Take-Two Turned GTA VI’s Marketing into a Revenue-Generating Product

With the Netflix exclusive ‘GTA VI: An Extended Look’, Take-Two has turned promotional gameplay footage into a premium, event-style piece of content with potential license revenue. In his update, industry expert Zoran Roso analyses whether this is now the new gold standard in games marketing.

By Zoran Roso • 4 min read

Campus

Game Studies Watchlist 2026 #31

The Game Studies Watchlist newsletter, curated by Professor Rudolf Inderst, is published weekly on GamesMarket. This week's edition focuses Her Story, critical approaches to cultural game studies and Call of Duty: World War II.

By Rudolf Inderst • 2 min read

Politics

Game Publishes Transparency Report on Its Website For the First Time

Membership numbers, political activities, data on turnover and expenditure – for the first time, game has made its transparency report publicly available on its website. The figures show a stable association, but come as no surprise. Similar reports were available via the Bundestag.

By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read

Business

Mattel Establishes Its Own Game Studios Unit to Self-Publish Its Own Mobile, Fortnite and Roblox Games

Mattel has announced the launch of Mattel Game Studios. The unit, which has nearly 300 employees, will be responsible for the development and marketing of the company's in-house digital games, particularly on mobile and platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite.

By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read

Business

A Legal Perspective: What does Twitch's Automatic AI Training Mean?

GamesMarket's IT law Expert Sandra Spensberger explains the legal problems around Twitch's new AI scraping of streamer content. From game content to personal data, she explains why Twitch's approach will be problematic - and why it's still no easy question.

By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read

gamescom

Nigeria is Heading to gamescom for the First Time

Nigeria will have its first gamescom pavilion ever this year, in Hall 4.1. The booth is organised under Games from Nigeria by Nigerian studio Maliyo Games and the French Embassy in Nigeria, while PR is handled by Narratify. The booth design comes from Kucheza Gaming.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read