Gerhold: Building an Alternative to Established Labels

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How Stephen's Sausage Roll Maker Increpare Moved to 3D Platformer Oeuf

With Oeuf, Stephen Lavelle is offering you an egg in this trying time.

By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read

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"In 2026, I Expect Smarter Monetization Rather Than Bigger Monetization"

In our GDC 2026 interview with Chris Hewish (President) and Berkley Egenes (Chief Marketing and Growth Officer) at Xsolla, we discuss monetisation trends, games concentration, direct-to-consumer growth, hardware cost pressures, distribution trends and XR.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 7 min read

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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

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How Stephen's Sausage Roll Maker Increpare Moved to 3D Platformer Oeuf

With Oeuf, Stephen Lavelle is offering you an egg in this trying time.

By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read

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Oeuf

Stephen's Sausage Roll maker increpare games launches Oeuf, a tight, meditative challenge platformer in which one or several eggs are looking for the way back into their nest.

By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read

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Subscribe to GamesMarkt+ and Get a Pumuckl Switch or Steam Key

We are teaming up with Quantumfrog for a subscription drive and giveaway: The next 10 annual subscribers to GamesMarkt+ will receive a Switch or Steam key of their choice of Pumuckl and the Crown of the Pirate King.

By Team Gamesmarkt • 2 min read

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Reigns: The Witcher

Through their collaboration with Game of Thrones, Nerial and Devolver Digital have already shown that the swipe-based Reigns series can work well with other franchises. Now, they have teamed up with CD Projekt Red to create Reigns: The Witcher.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 4 min read

Business

Zestum Starts Scentbar Kickstarter: Smell What You Play

The start-up Zestum wants to use its Scentbar to bring smells to life on screen to match what's happening. A Kickstarter campaign is set to fund the first product line. Three scent sets are planned for the launch: nature, racing and action.

By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read

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Average Cut for All Non-Valve Games Sold on Steam in 2025 Was 24%

Valve Software looks back at Steam in 2025. The company announced that, in 2025, the revenue share paid out across all non-Valve games on Steam was 76%.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read