Mehring and the winners of the GG Awards 2026 (Kaspar Kozub / StMD Bayern) People GG Awards 2026 Honor Irox, Cobalt Lane, Memory Forge, Fire Totem and Spicy Sushi With Oku, A Webbing Journey, OrbiTower, Incredibug and Imprinted, five brand new games won the GG Awards at GG Bavaria 2026. Digital Minister Fabian Mehring presented the community choice award and gave out game certificates to the Level Up Accelerator participants. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Menace © Overhype Studios & Hooded Horse Products This Is What Menace's Early Access Roadmap Looks Like In its first month in Early Access, Menace, developed by Overhype Studios and published by Hooded Horse, sold over 230,000 copies. They are calling this "a resounding success" and have now presented the Early Access roadmap. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Slay the Spire 2 © Mega Crit Games Products Slay the Spire 2 Achieves Strongest Steam Launch of the Year so Far With over 400,000 people playing simultaneously, Slay the Spire 2 from Mega Crit Games achieved the best launch of any game on Steam so far this year. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Events Game Industry Conference to be Held Twice in 2026 And is Seeking Speakers The organisers of the GIC - Game Industry Conference have launched their call for speakers. At the same time, the website shows that GIC 2026 will take place twice, at the usual time in October in Poznań and at the end of June in Katowice. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Products Marathon Marathon’s amazing gunplay and tremendous visuals are hampered only by the choices it doesn’t let players take, for now. A snapshot of a game in flux. By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
Plaion X CI Games © Plaion & CI Games Business Plaion and CI Games Partner up for Lords of the Fallen II Following their collaboration on Lords of the Fallen, Plaion and CI Games have announced that they are joining forces once again. Plaion will be the global physical distributor for Lords of the Fallen II. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Project Helix © Microsoft Business Next Xbox "Will Lead in Performance" and Play PC and Xbox Games Following the change in leadership at Microsoft Gaming, the new CEO, Asha Sharma, has revealed that "Project Helix" is the codename for the next generation of Xbox consoles. "Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games," she said. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Gregorios Kythreotis is founder of Eteo Games and editor of Eteo Archetypes (Eteo) People Why Does A Game Studio Start a Games Magazine? The Creative Director behind Sable has expanded: Not into a publishing scheme or PR, but into games culture journalism. Eteo Archetypes is an ongoing collection of writing by some of the best culture authors in gaming. We talked to head of Eteo, Gregorios Kythreotis, about it. By Pascal Wagner • 5 min read
World of Warcraft: Midnight Advertisement in TV Weather Report © Blizzard / wetter.com Business Blizzard Collaborates Again With Wetter.com to Promote WoW: Midnight The launch of World of Warcraft: Midnight was accompanied by another unusual marketing campaign in Germany, once again in collaboration with wetter.com. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
Business Game Studies Watchlist 2026 #9 The Game Studies Watchlist newsletter, curated by Prof. Dr Rudolf Inderst, is published weekly on GamesMarkt. This week's topics include the ecologies of indie games, CBC and the university of Malta. By Rudolf Inderst • 3 min read
Business The Economics of the Digital 'Third Place' In 'Zoran's Update', experienced games manager Zoran Roso comments on current industry topics on LinkedIn. This time's topic: How WoW's new Midnight expansion is transforming players into highly invested digital homeowners and what this has to do with Sonys 'Third Place' concept of the PS2 era. By Zoran Roso • 3 min read
The Occultist © Daloar and Daedalic Entertainment Products Daloar and Daedalic to Release the Occultist in April Following the huge success of Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown, publisher Daedalic Entertainment has announced the release of its next game. The first-person horror adventure game, The Occultist, is set to launch on 8 April 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read
