Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto © Nintendo Products All the Announcements From Today's Nintendo Direct During today's extensive Direct presentation, Nintendo presented a wide range of games from Nintendo and its global publishing and development partners. Among these were new Mario games, specific release dates for many titles, and a few surprises. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto opened the presentation by announcing events to By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie © Illumination and Nintendo Business The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Premieres in April 2026 Illumination and Nintendo have announced the title of their new animated film based on the Super Mario Bros. universe: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Universal Pictures will release the film worldwide in April 2026. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is an animated film based on the Super Mario Bros. universe. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
A team photo of Assemble Entertainment and Gentlymad Studios at their shared premises in Wiesbaden. © Assemble Entertainment Business Assemble's Gentlymad Studios Is Closing Its Doors Gentlymad Studios, the in-house game development studio of Assemble Entertainment in Wiesbaden, is set to close at the end of September 2025. A total of 25 people will be affected. Ultimately, they were unable to build on the success of Endzone. Gentlymad Studios was founded in 2014 and released the By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
© AlliertenMuseum, Computerspielemuseum Campus Allied Museum and Computer Game Museum Cooperate on Cold War Games Exhibition In a cooperation, the Computer Game and Allied Museums Berlin are presenting an exhibition on gaming during and games about the Cold War. The exhibition will run from Oktober to June in the Allied Museum, a press tour takes place on 30 September. From 2 October 2025 to 30 June By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Rudolf Inderst Campus DiGRA D-A-CH Game Studies Watchlist #36 The Game Studies Watchlist newsletter of games research association DiGRA GSA is published weekly on GamesMarkt, curated by Prof Dr Rudolf Inderst. This week, we dive into The Last of Us, the Expressionist Games Manifesto and gun violence. Sometimes it's okay to have a more robust opinion, right? By Team Gamesmarkt • 2 min read
Rematch © Sloclap Products Bandai Namco Distributes Physical Version of Rematch in GSA Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe announces its collaboration with France-based Sloclap on the online football action game Rematch. As part of this partnership, a physical version of the game will be released for PS5, distributed in the GSA region by Bandai Namco Entertainment Germany. The physical Rematch: Elite Edition will be By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© Metaroot Products Swiss Automation Game The Farmer Was Replaced Launches 10 October Coming out of a successful Early Access phase, the programming game The Farmer was Replaced by Swiss dev Timon Herzog and Swiss publisher Metaroot launches on 10 October. In its Early Access phase on Steam, farming automation and programming game The Farmer Was Replaced has garnered 150,000 sales since By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Borderlands 4 © 2K Games Products Borderlands 4 In the biggest Borderlands world yet, new movement mechanics and the digirunner vehicle help players to explore the planet of Kairos and confront the tyrannical Timekeeper and his Order. However, the cooperative multiplayer options are also being expanded. One of the most successful and stylistically memorable franchises from Take-Two' By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read
© EA / Andy Walsh People Andrew Walsh Joins EA As Senior Narrative Director Game writing expert Andrew Walsh is joining Electronic Arts as Senior Narrative Director. Walsh has written on the Horizon series, Fable, Prince of Persia and many others before and will work with Dice and Criterion from now on. The award winning video game author Andrew Walsh is joining Electronic Arts By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Skinbaron X BIG © BIG Esports Skinbaron Extends Its Partnership With BIG Berlin International Gaming (BIG) and SkinBaron started working closely together in late 2019 and have now extended their partnership, continuing their collaboration of over six years. At a time when the Counter-Strike community - particularly BIG's CS2 men's team - has had a challenging year, this By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Nuuvem CEO and Co-Founder Fernando Campos (front). © Nuuvem PR Team Products Square Enix Invests in Nuuvem's Spawnd In their first Brazilian investment ever, Square Enix has bought shares in spawnd, the now-launching web games platform by Nuuvem. The platform especially wants to solve discoverability problems on platforms like Steam. Square Enix has made its first investment in Brazil by partnering with game publisher Nuuvem, creators of web By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Average first 3-month player count per single-player title by release month - PC, PlayStation, Xbox | 37 markets (excluding China and India) | 2021-2024 © Newzoo Game Performance Monitor / Newzoo Global Games Market Report 2025 Business Newzoo: Games Being Released During the Holiday Season Is Not Just Outdated; It's Counterproductive In the Global Games Market Report 2025, Newzoo's market researchers examined the release period for AAA titles in recent years. They concluded that releasing games during the holiday season is outdated and counterproductive. Newzoo has published this year's free edition of the Global Games Market Report. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
