Alex Hutchinson: "Humour Is so Unfortunately Rare in Games" Marcel Kleffmann February 14, 2025 – 2 min read Share this post Revenge of the Savage Planet / Alex Hutchinson, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Raccoon Logic © Raccoon Logic / Hutchinson Chris Hewish, President Xsolla © Christer Berg People Chris Hewish on the European Games Industry - GamesMarket Industry Leaders Survey 2026 How do gaming executives rate Europe's position in the global market? And what key challenges and trends are currently affecting the industry? We spoke to Chris Hewish, President Xsolla (US), to find out. By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read Business Swedish Workers Achieve Union Contract at King Unionen and Engineers of Sweden have achieved a union contract signing at Swedish mobile game dev and Microsoft subsidiary King. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read Business The Neural Brush: How DLSS 5 Rewrites Remaster Economics and Divides PC vs. Console Strategy In his latest update, industry expert Zoran Roso analyses how Nvidia’s DLSS5 is cutting the production cycles of remaster projects by years, and how this could fundamentally change the video game economy. By Zoran Roso • 4 min read The Big Break Showcase © Coffee Stain Products Everything Revealed at Coffee Stain's The Big Break Showcase Coffee Stain's first Big Break Showcase featured over 40 games. Highlights included announcements about Satisfactory and Deep Rock Galactic, as well as reveals from Hypetrain Digital, Raw Fury, and other indie studios. By Marcel Kleffmann • 6 min read Daily GamesMarket Daily - 29 Sep 26: Funding, Megagon, Travian, Jasmin Oestreicher, DEP, Ivipro Days, Witcher New funding, questions about the funding, and the start of ticket sales for the DEP were all on today’s news programme. We also have an exciting interview with Jasmin Oestreicher from Sidekick Publishing. By Team GamesMarket • 6 min read (Rasmuss Gundorff Saederup, Unsplash) Politics Federal Government Answers Parliamentary Questions on Federal Funding In a document running to over 80 pages, the Federal Government has responded to the minor parliamentary question on federal funding submitted by members of the AfD parliamentary group. The new insights gained are limited; most of the data was already publicly available. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read Way of the Hunter 2 © Nine Rocks Games and THQ Nordic Products Way of the Hunter 2 Launches on PC & Consoles Its predecessor sold over a million copies, and now Nine Rocks Games and THQ Nordic have released Way of the Hunter 2 for PC and consoles. Gothic II Complete Classic has also been launched for PlayStation and Xbox. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read (DEP) Awards German Developer Award 2026 Starts Ticket Sale Ticket sales for the German Developer Award (Deutscher Entwicklerpreis, DEP) 2026 have started. The event takes place 8 December in Cologne and honours the best games from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read People G+ Jasmin Oestreicher on Freedom, Curiosity and What She Expects From Leadership A change of perspective paved the way for Jasmin Oestreicher to become co-founder and co-CEO of her own publishing house, Sidekick Publishing. When it comes to equality in the industry, she is genuinely optimistic, but also holds the industry’s leaders to account. By Stephan Steininger • 5 min read
Chris Hewish, President Xsolla © Christer Berg People Chris Hewish on the European Games Industry - GamesMarket Industry Leaders Survey 2026 How do gaming executives rate Europe's position in the global market? And what key challenges and trends are currently affecting the industry? We spoke to Chris Hewish, President Xsolla (US), to find out. By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
Business Swedish Workers Achieve Union Contract at King Unionen and Engineers of Sweden have achieved a union contract signing at Swedish mobile game dev and Microsoft subsidiary King. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Business The Neural Brush: How DLSS 5 Rewrites Remaster Economics and Divides PC vs. Console Strategy In his latest update, industry expert Zoran Roso analyses how Nvidia’s DLSS5 is cutting the production cycles of remaster projects by years, and how this could fundamentally change the video game economy. By Zoran Roso • 4 min read
The Big Break Showcase © Coffee Stain Products Everything Revealed at Coffee Stain's The Big Break Showcase Coffee Stain's first Big Break Showcase featured over 40 games. Highlights included announcements about Satisfactory and Deep Rock Galactic, as well as reveals from Hypetrain Digital, Raw Fury, and other indie studios. By Marcel Kleffmann • 6 min read
Daily GamesMarket Daily - 29 Sep 26: Funding, Megagon, Travian, Jasmin Oestreicher, DEP, Ivipro Days, Witcher New funding, questions about the funding, and the start of ticket sales for the DEP were all on today’s news programme. We also have an exciting interview with Jasmin Oestreicher from Sidekick Publishing. By Team GamesMarket • 6 min read
(Rasmuss Gundorff Saederup, Unsplash) Politics Federal Government Answers Parliamentary Questions on Federal Funding In a document running to over 80 pages, the Federal Government has responded to the minor parliamentary question on federal funding submitted by members of the AfD parliamentary group. The new insights gained are limited; most of the data was already publicly available. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Way of the Hunter 2 © Nine Rocks Games and THQ Nordic Products Way of the Hunter 2 Launches on PC & Consoles Its predecessor sold over a million copies, and now Nine Rocks Games and THQ Nordic have released Way of the Hunter 2 for PC and consoles. Gothic II Complete Classic has also been launched for PlayStation and Xbox. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
(DEP) Awards German Developer Award 2026 Starts Ticket Sale Ticket sales for the German Developer Award (Deutscher Entwicklerpreis, DEP) 2026 have started. The event takes place 8 December in Cologne and honours the best games from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
People G+ Jasmin Oestreicher on Freedom, Curiosity and What She Expects From Leadership A change of perspective paved the way for Jasmin Oestreicher to become co-founder and co-CEO of her own publishing house, Sidekick Publishing. When it comes to equality in the industry, she is genuinely optimistic, but also holds the industry’s leaders to account. By Stephan Steininger • 5 min read
