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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

Events

Slitherine's Dominion Days to Become Recurring Meeting Point for Strategy Gaming

Strategy games represent 15% of the market. Their players are a passionate but fragmented niche who get lost in major events. That's why Slitherine is organising its own strategy gaming hub, the Dominion Days, at Games Ground in Berlin for the first time. An interview about the background.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 7 min read

Events

GIC Reveals Almost 100 Sessions And Expects Largest Edition so Far

The organisers of the GIC have already announced nearly 100 sessions featuring speakers from Walt Disney Imagineering, Ubisoft, Activision, CD Projekt Red, Techland, 11 Bit Studios and Wargaming, amongst others. And they haven’t even revealed half of what’s to come.

By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read

People

Womenize! Inspiring Stories: Amina Appiah Lewis

In their weekly interview series Womenize! features inspirational, diverse people who work in the games and tech industry, to share their experiences, give valuable advice and talk about their projects. In cooperation with Womenize! and Madeleine Egger, GamesMarkt is republishing these inspirations.

By Madeleine Egger • 7 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

People

G+ Game Music Makers: Petri Alanko

BAFTA-nominated Composer Petri Alanko from Helsinki in Finland has made music for Wooga and Supercell, but most importantly you know his work from Remedy's Alan Wake and Control series. We spoke to him about creative pipelines, prototyping music and much more.

By Pascal Wagner • 11 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