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Tabletop

Pokémon Trading Card Game Launches 30th Celebration Set

The Pokémon TCG has released its 30 year anniversary set aimed at collectors and players at the same time. With a new rarity, all-foil boosters and guest art by Japanese artist Yoshirotten, the set is available from today.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Tabletop

Magic: The Gathering Arena Sunsets Alchemy

Wizards of the Coast is ending digital-only Alchemy cards in Magic: The Gathering Arena. The last Alchemy set will be the coming Reality Fracture release.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Business

Finnish Game Studio MiTale Starts Transmedia Publishing

MiTale from Finland has announced that it will start into publishing. The indie studio from Turku not only covers digital games, but also board games, graphic novels and books. Submissions will start early next year.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Campus

Stephan Schwingeler is Keynote Speaker of FROG 2026

Professor Stephan Schwingeler will be the keynote speaker of the Future and Reality of Gaming conference 2026 with a talk on Game Art. FROG takes place 20-22 November in Vienna.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Publishing

Red Dunes Games: "We Believe That Creativity and Trust Are Just as Important as Scale"

Red Dunes Games is an upcoming publisher and creative development partner from the emerging gaming market in the United Arab Emirates. In this interview, we spoke to Sultan Darmaki (CEO & Creative Director) and Mohamed Jneibi (CDO) about their business.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 6 min read

Business

G+ Interview: The United Arab Emirates as an Emerging Gaming Market

The MENA region is one of the emerging markets in the global games industry, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is part of this. To find out more about the region, we spoke to Sultan Darmaki (CEO & Creative Director) and Mohamed 'MJ' Jneibi (CDO) from Red Dunes Games.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 6 min read

Products

Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter

Almost a year after the remake of the first chapter, Nihon Falcom and GungHo Online Entertainment are breathing new life into the legendary JRPG series with the next remake: Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read

Daily

GamesMarket Daily 22 Sep 26: Xbox Reset, Andrey Tsvetkov, Arhi Makkonen, Solarpunk, Swiss Games Awards

The painful restructuring at Microsoft continues, whilst Embracer is reaping the rewards of its cost-cutting measures and using a new loan on more favourable terms to pay off old loans. We also speak to Andrey Tsvetkov, Arhi Makkonen and the creators of Solarpunk.

By Team GamesMarket • 6 min read

Business

Xbox Is Reorganising Its Studios and Making Further Layoffs

The 'Xbox Reset' continues. In addition to 268 job cuts, it has been announced that Activision will take charge of Halo and Age of Empires in future. Obsidian Entertainment is moving to Bethesda. There is also an update on the studio divestitures.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read