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.
It's easy to talk about unions formed, dear readers,
but the unionisation effort doesn't end there. In fact, that is just the start of more concrete negotiations, of which we often don't see a lot of fast results. And we seldom talk about the real reason for these unions: to negotiate for the workers specific contracts with the companies. So it's important to also put news like the Swedish contract between Unionen, Engineers for Sweden and mobile game maker King into the forefront; this is why people unionise. Not to have a consolidated speech organ, but to reach contractual obligations in their favour.
Here are the news of the day!
Your Pascal Wagner
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.
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by Marcel Kleffmann
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.
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by Marcel Kleffmann
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.
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by Marcel Kleffmann
In this issue of GamesMarkt+, with support from Games/Bavaria and the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs, we’ve compiled all the information on how Bavaria has become one of the most important locations for games in Germany.
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After almost a year, Seafarer: The Ship Sim has completed its Early Access launch, with Version 1.0 now available on PC and consoles.
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Marcel Kleffmann
Unionen and Engineers of Sweden have achieved a union contract signing at Swedish mobile game dev and Microsoft subsidiary King.
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BeamNG.drive, the popular driving simulator from Bremen-based BeamNG, which has been available in Early Access for over ten years, is coming to PlayStation 5 in October 2026.
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Warding Witches by Headup and Sonorode, both from Germany, will release their musically electrifying, defense-focused shoot 'em up Warding Witches on 19 October.
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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.
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The Game Studies Watchlist newsletter, curated by Professor Rudolf Inderst, is published weekly on GamesMarket. This week's edition focuses on calls, the Japanese industry and what is 'retro'.
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Marcel Kleffmann
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