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G+ Weekly Steam Charts: Modern Warfare 4 Takes the Lead, Final Fantasy Resonance Surprises

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has performed much better than Black Ops 7 (2025) and Modern Warfare III (2023) in the weekly Steam charts. Meanwhile, Final Fantasy Resonance has surprised many with its strong launch for a single-player Final Fantasy title.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read

GamesMarket Plus

G+ Interview: The Makings of Reality Fracture

How did Reality Fracture take shape after the last three years of Magic: The Gathering sets experimented heavily with settings and references? We spoke to Meris Mullaley, Roy Graham and Yoni Skolnik of Wizards of the Coast about planeswalkers, problems with Poison mechanics in the future and more.

By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read

Tabletop

G+ SPIEL 2026: The Board Game Industry on the Cusp of Digitalisation

Board and card games are the epitome of the analogue world – and yet they face the very same issues that preoccupy their digital counterparts. At Spiel 2026 in Essen, we asked people from the industry for their views on AI and its convergence with video games.

By Melanie Döring • 4 min read

Business

Control Resonant Boosts Remedy Entertainment's Financial Results

Remedy Entertainment's revenue tripled in the third quarter of 2026 compared with the same period last year, primarily due to the release of Control Resonant, which is the company's fastest-selling game to date.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read

Business

EU Commission Greenlights Takeover of MediaMarktSaturn by JD.com

The final hurdle in the planned takeover of the German retail group Ceconomy – which essentially comprises the MediaMarktSaturn Group – by JD.com has been cleared. The EU Commission has given the green light for the acquisition, subject to the conditions it has imposed.

By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read

Products

The Farmer Was Replaced: 1M Sales, Mobile Port and The Miner Was Replaced

Timon Herzog and Metaroot have released the DLC The Miner Was Replaced for the programming game The Farmer Was Replaced, which has now sold over a million copies. A mobile version of the game has also been developed in collaboration with Ateo.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read

Esports

Bremen, Hamburg and Lower Saxony Form Germany's First Regional Esports Association

The organised esports scene in north-western Germany is getting closer together. The Lower Saxony Esports Association, part of the German Esports Federation (ESBD), is merging with the associations in Bremen and Hamburg to form the E-Sport-Verband Nordwest (North-West Esports Association).

By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read

Insights

Game Buyers Are Price-Sensitive and Have an Idea of Appealing Discounts

G2A and Newzoo have published a comprehensive study on gamers’ purchasing behaviour, which offers interesting and, in some cases, surprising insights that are likely to be of particular interest to developers and publishers of premium games.

By Stephan Steininger • 4 min read

Business

How IP Rights and Terms of Use Can Stop Third Parties from Profiting from Your Game

IT law expert Sandra Spensberger dissects a German court decision that put a stop to the sale of modded and boosted game accounts for a popular online multiplayer game via a Lithuanian third-party platform.

By Sandra Spensberger • 5 min read