Gerhold: Building an Alternative to Established Labels Stephan Steininger May 24, 2024 – 2 min read Share this post Mario Gerhold © Gerhold People Womenize! Inspiring Stories: Miriam Kaisers 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 • 5 min read People Giles Derrington Switches from TikTok to Take-Two Just before GTA VI drops, Take-Two gets a new Director for Global Affairs with focus on EU and UK: Giles Derrington, former Head of Public Affairs at TikTok, will be the public head for the GTA publisher in Brussels. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read Constantin Winkler, new Project Lead at the Center for Critical Social Sciences (Winkler/ZKSW) People Constantin Winkler Leads New Project About Anti-Semitism in Gaming One of the researchers of the now ended RadiGaMe project, Constantin Winkler, now leads the project Anti-Semitism in Gaming at the Center for Critical Social Sciences in Berlin. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read People Womenize! Inspiring Stories: Miriam Kaisers 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 • 5 min read GamesMarket Daily - 4 September 2026: Hardware Theft @ Gamescom, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nintendo, HWG Vienna, Icecrack Games, and more In response to the hardware theft, the gamescom organisers have released a more comprehensive statement and promised to address the incident. In other news, Microsoft is making changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming, while Nintendo has announced not one, but two presentations for next week. By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read Nintendo Switch 2 © Nintendo Products Two Nintendo Direct Presentations Next Week Nintendo has announced two Direct presentations for next week. The first, The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct, will take place on Tuesday 8 September, followed by a new episode of Nintendo Direct on Wednesday 9 September. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read CygamesEdge © Cygames Business Cygames Launched New Brand CygamesEdge Tokyo-based video game publisher and developer Cygames has launched CygamesEdge, a new brand focused on small- and medium-sized projects. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read gamescom 2026 Business Area hall 4.1 © Koelnmesse GmbH Oliver Wachenfeld gamescom Gamescom Organisers Respond to Hardware Theft At gamescom 2026, hardware was stolen from the business area. This fact quickly spread throughout the industry. While the organisers' initial response was largely met with rejection and criticism, they are now striking a different tone. By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read Sil and the Fading World © IceCrack Games / Arc Games Products Arc Games Signed Icecrack Games' Sil and the Fading World IceCrack Games, an independent game development studio based in Switzerland, has found a publisher for its debut game, Sil and the Fading World: Arc Games. It's a solo-raiding action RPG that combines MMO-inspired raid boss encounters with ARPG character progression and buildcrafting. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
People Womenize! Inspiring Stories: Miriam Kaisers 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 • 5 min read
People Giles Derrington Switches from TikTok to Take-Two Just before GTA VI drops, Take-Two gets a new Director for Global Affairs with focus on EU and UK: Giles Derrington, former Head of Public Affairs at TikTok, will be the public head for the GTA publisher in Brussels. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
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GamesMarket Daily - 4 September 2026: Hardware Theft @ Gamescom, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nintendo, HWG Vienna, Icecrack Games, and more In response to the hardware theft, the gamescom organisers have released a more comprehensive statement and promised to address the incident. In other news, Microsoft is making changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming, while Nintendo has announced not one, but two presentations for next week. By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read
Nintendo Switch 2 © Nintendo Products Two Nintendo Direct Presentations Next Week Nintendo has announced two Direct presentations for next week. The first, The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct, will take place on Tuesday 8 September, followed by a new episode of Nintendo Direct on Wednesday 9 September. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
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Sil and the Fading World © IceCrack Games / Arc Games Products Arc Games Signed Icecrack Games' Sil and the Fading World IceCrack Games, an independent game development studio based in Switzerland, has found a publisher for its debut game, Sil and the Fading World: Arc Games. It's a solo-raiding action RPG that combines MMO-inspired raid boss encounters with ARPG character progression and buildcrafting. By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
