Game Music Makers: Petri Alanko

People

Russell Kay 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 Russell Kay, Senior Product Director & Head of GameMaker at Opera (Norway), to find out.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read

People

Marquard Group Forms Strategic Advisory Board

Aleksandar Marjanovic, Dr. Jacob Mendel, and Daniel Rapp are the new Strategic Advisory Board of Marquard Group from Switzerland, the company behind 4Players and Computec. Their fields: gaming, automotive, and defense.

By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read

People

G+ Arhi Makkonen on Control Resonant: "Level Design was at the Center"

Control Resonant is not just a sequel to Remedy's Control, but an entirely new experiment. We spoke to Senior Level Designer Arhi Makkonen about making Manhattan weird(er), excluding parry systems from the game and taking inspiration from great games.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

Funding

Federal Funding Goes to Neoludic Games and Wild River Games

Two more game studios have received funding from the German Federal Government's Video Game Funding Programme. Grants were awarded to Wild River Games in Ismaning and neoludic games in Cologne.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read

Products

Graveyard Keeper 2

The dead have risen – now send them back to their graves! In Graveyard Keeper 2, billed as the 'most accurately inaccurate medieval cemetery simulator', players must return to the graveyard. This time, there's automation, a zombie-led city recapture and much more beyond that.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read

Events

Zurich Pop Con & Game Show Beats Last Year’s Record Figures

With 48,500 visitors, the Zurich Pop Con & Game Show has set a new record. In 2027, the community event will celebrate its tenth anniversary.

By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read

Jobs

InnoMaster Big Data Engineering - part-time Master's Program

InnoGames; Hamburg, Germany

By GamesMarket Job Agent • 3 min read

Daily

GamesMarket Daily - 25 September 2026: Slitherine Dominion Days, Swedish Unions, Russell Kay, Space Metal Mania & more

We see today how it looks when a union does what workers unionise for, and have more European leadership insights for you with answers from Russell Kay. Several releases and port announcements round out the day.

By Pascal Wagner • 6 min read

Products

THQ Nordic Mobile's Space Metal Mania Released on Luna

Developed by THQ Nordic Mobile (formerly Handy Games), Space Metal Mania has been released exclusively on Amazon Luna. This top-down space shoot'em up features metal music.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read