© Sbarter Business Sbarter Looks for Investors In "Skill-Based" Pay-to-Earn Wager System New Swiss on the block(chain): Sbarter wants to bring investors on board for their new pay-to-earn system for video games. Player are supposed to bet money in the form of tokens against each other in ingame competitions, with the company and publishers opting in taking a cut. Swiss company By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Xbox Business German Game Pass Users Keep Their Prices For Now Xbox has announced another revamp of the Game Pass subscription model. Core is now called Essential and Standard is now called Premium. While the Premium tier gets more expensive, the price is raised for the Ultimate tier especially: In exchange for Fortnite and Ubisoft cooperations, subscribers have to pay a By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© Zen Studios Business Zen Studios Now Part of THQ Nordic Zen Studios, best known for its pinball games, is now one of THQ Nordic's development studios. The Hungarian studio is also celebrating its 25th anniversary. On the occasion of Zen Studios' 25th anniversary, THQ Nordic announced that Zen Studios is now part of its roster of development By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
© game; company logos: respective company Business 24 New Members Join German game Association The game association grows: 24 new members have joined in recent weeks, from universities and civil society associations to young studios to industry stables like Acer. The game grows: The German games industry association has welcomed 24 new members in recent weeks. The following studios and institutions are joining as By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Nadine Abramowski and Paul Stehr have joined Super Crowd as new shareholders. © Super Crowd Business Nadine Abramowski and Paul Stehr Have Joined Super Crowd as New Shareholders Super Crowd Entertainment GmbH welcomes PaNa UG, and therefore Nadine Abramowski and Paul Stehr, as new shareholders. In September 2025, Super Crowd Entertainment GmbH welcomed PaNa UG as new shareholder, and with it Nadine Abramowski and Paul Stehr – two of the minds behind projects such as DoktorFroid, Loot für die By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Jiri Kupiainen, Founder and Chair, Dr. Ben Abraham, Standards and Research Lead, and Maria Wagner, Co-Founder and Managing Director SGA © SGA Business SGA Launches Sustainable Games Standard One Year After Its Founding Just over a year after its founding, SGA has reached an important milestone and delivered on its promise: the Sustainable Games Standard, the first global emissions reporting framework created specifically for the games industry. Even though the “Omnibus” initiative eases the time pressure on many companies, including those in the By Stephan Steininger • 3 min read
© Sega Business Sega and IOC Sign New Multi-Year Agreement The new agreement between Sega and the IOC is less about games and more about a collaboration between the Olympic brand and Sonic. There will be a wide range of licensed products available in 2026, and partners are now being sought. The agreement now concluded between Sega and the International By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© DFL Esports DFL and Electronic Arts Revise Competition Mode of Virtual Bundesliga At the start of the new season of the Virtual Bundesliga (VBL), the DFL and Electronic Arts have made numerous adjustments to make the competition more open and exciting. But there are also some constants: 35 teams are competing in the VBL. The start of the new season is scheduled By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© ExP Campus ExP Returns with HFF München Expert Talks and Pretzels returns in a new venue, with the CreatiF Center of HFF München. On 8 October Musfira Naqvi of Siemens and Marcel-André Casasola-Greiner of Jumpy Bit will speak in front of and using the big cinema screen. Expert Talks and Pretzels (ExP), the Munich talk format organised By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© PlayBern Business PlayBern Festival 2025 Brings Game Music Into the Spotlight The 7. PlayBern Festival from 31 October to 2 November features game music as a spotlight topic. Apart from game concerts and composers on stage, accessibility in music takes center stage. Research collective CH Ludens will also be part of the program. From 31 October to 2 November, the PlayBern By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
© Rudolf Inderst Campus DiGRA D-A-CH Game Studies Watchlist #39 The Game Studies Watchlist newsletter of games research association DiGRA GSA is published weekly on GamesMarkt, curated by Prof Dr Rudolf Inderst. This time with Starfield, jobs as game researchers in Europe and the DiGRA Ireland conference. Ahoi there, game studies operators! Sometimes it happens faster than you think: you By Team Gamesmarkt • 2 min read
Ruth Lemmen and André Bernhardt © GM Business Play, Promote, Publish 2025 Workshop Goes to the Next Round The five-day workshop on marketing strategies in the games industry will kick off with an in-person event during Games Ground in Berlin. Play, Promote, Publish 2025 is organized and curated by Ruth Lemmen and André Bernhardt. The target audience for Play, Promote, Publisher 2025 includes SMEs, large companies, and individuals By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
