© GamesMarkt Business MICE and Men: "Only an Event Can Create These Emotions" Vienna event agency MICE and Men are organising Game City Vienna since 2007. In our interview at Game City 2025, managing partners Milena Riedel and Tarek Sharif talk about the fair’s success, their plans for the future and the Austrian event landscape. Event agency MICE and Men is carrying By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space © Bundesregierung/Steffen Kugler Business Games Department Shown in the Organizational Chart of the Ministry of Science The reintroduced Games Department appears for the first time in a new organizational chart from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. It is docked in the Strategies and Policy Issues division, which is headed by Dr. Effrosyni Chelioti and reports to State Secretary Dr. Marcus Player. The position By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
© Andreas Tischler / Vienna Press Business Game City Vienna 2025 Breaks Visitor Record With over 87,000 people, Game City Vienna 2025 has broken last year's record by about 2,000. The 16th Game City Vienna with MediaMarkt as its main partner ended yesterday with a record attendance number. From October 10 to 12, over 87,000 visited Vienna City Hall. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Thomas Reisenegger, co-founder and ceo of Future Friends Games / CloverPit © Thomas Reisenegger / Panik Arcade, Future Friends Games Business How CloverPit Completely Beat Future Friends' Best-Case Predictions CloverPit, an indie game by Panik Arcade and Future Friends Games, went up against Hades II, EA Sports FC 26, and Silent Hill f. It exceeded the publisher's best-case sales predictions by achieving over 750,000 sales. We spoke to CEO Thomas Reisenegger about this outstanding success. By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Kathrin Radtke from Spellgarden Games will be part of the Scottish Game Developers Association's mentoring programm. © Spellgarden Games Business Scottish Game Developers Association Reveals First Mentors For their coming accelerator program, the new Scottish Game Developers Association has revealed their first mentors, among them Spellgarden Games' Kathrin Radtke. Interested mentees can register until 15 October. The new Scottish Game Developers Association (we reported) has revealed the first mentors for their upcoming Accelerator mentoring program. The By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Paul Nguyen - Warding Witches (Solo-dev) & Sonorode (EDM and video game music composer/producer) / Alexandra Batty - Headup (Senior Communications Manager) / Dieter Schoeller - Headup (CEO) / Robin Rottmann - Games/Bavaria (Teamlead) © Alexander Hartung for Games/Bavaria / Schoeller Headup Business How Headup Signed Warding Witches at GG Bavaria At GG Bavaria 2025, Paul Nguyen, a solo developer and game music composer, presented his current hobby project in an impromptu performance. Headup discovered the project there and signed it up. It's a local Munich indie success story. Paul Nguyen is the sole developer of Warding Witches, which By Marcel Kleffmann • 8 min read
© Rudolf Inderst Campus DiGRA D-A-CH Game Studies Watchlist #40 The Game Studies Watchlist newsletter of games research association DiGRA GSA is published weekly on GamesMarkt, curated by Prof Dr Rudolf Inderst. This week with Hunger, the canceled Ubisoft civil war game and more. Ahoi there, game studies operators! Here in Neu-Ulm, it's getting late and I By Team GamesMarket • 3 min read
Keir Starmer, prime minister of the UK since 2024. © UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor Business UK Government: Payment Processors Can Ban What They Want After a petition reached the necessary signatures, Starmer's UK government commented on the NSFW bans payment processors pressured storefronts into. According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the government has no plans to step in. This puts the government in direct contrast to By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
© GM/ESA Business Power of Play: United Kingdom As part of the Power of Play survey, industry associations also took a close look at the participating countries. GamesMarkt summarizes the results. This time: United Kingdom. What makes gamers around the world tick, and how do they differ from country to country? These questions and many more are addressed By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
Lisa Kneidl, PR Manager @ Larian Studios © Kneidl, Larian Business Lisa Kneidl Joined Larian Studios Lisa Kneidl has taken up a new position as in-house PR manager at Larian Studios, after spending more than seven years at British self-publishing agency ICO. Lisa Kneidl, who was born in Germany, left the British self-publishing agency ICO (video games, tabletops and more) in October 2025 By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read
Michael Metzger, Managing Partner, Drake Star © Drake Star Business Michael Metzger: Takeover of EA "Could Also Inspire Other PE Firms to Pursue Major Acquisitions in the Gaming Sector" In light of the Drake Star Global Gaming Report Q3 2025, Michael Metzger, Managing Partner, offers additional insights into the EA takeover and its implications for the games industry, investment sectors, growing market segments, and the stock market. Global technology investment bank Drake Star has released its latest Global Gaming By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
