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W4 Partners With Tencent to Bring Godot to Asia — The W4 founders from left to right: Fabio Alessandrelli, Remi Verschelde, Juan Linietsky, Nicola Farronato (W4)

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W4 Partners With Tencent to Bring Godot to Asia

In the current Series B funding round, W4 Games, the enterprising arm of open-source engine Godot, has collected about €15,4mil from OSS Capital, LUX, Naval Ravikant and Tobias Lutke. Together with Tencent, now a main investor, expansion to Asia is planned.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

Xsolla Unveils Its Largest Product Rollout Yet: New Tools Give Studios Control Over Their Own Growth

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Xsolla Unveils Its Largest Product Rollout Yet: New Tools Give Studios Control Over Their Own Growth

Advertorial | Xsolla is heading to Cologne for gamescom dev and gamescom with a range of new services and products. Learn more at xsolla.pro/gmktgc, or connect with the team at gamescom, Hall 2.2, #A030-B035.

By Xsolla • 4 min read

Under the Hood: Unusual Prototyping for Tufuur — From left: Aleksandra Franz, Hanna Metelmann and Jennifer F. Donovan a.k.a. The Umbra Collective about prototyping with unusual materials. (The Umbra Collective)

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G+ Under the Hood: Unusual Prototyping for Tufuur

In our regular GamesMarket developer series, game studios present pictures of what's going on under the hood of in their game making process. This time, The Umbra Collective leads us through prototyping the world for their upcoming game Tufuur with Play-Doh.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

Black Box: Infinite Arsenal – Generating Gameplay, Not Just Assets

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Black Box: Infinite Arsenal – Generating Gameplay, Not Just Assets

Advertorial | Most generative AI in game production stops at the asset stage. In Black Box: Infinite Arsenal, an in-house AI model generates combat mechanics at runtime. At gamescom, Meshy shows the new 3D version — playable in Hall 10.1, Stand F072.

By Meshy.ai • 1 min read

Submissions Open for Godot 2026 Showreel — (Godot, André Marí Coppola)

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Submissions Open for Godot 2026 Showreel

The Godot Foundation has opened submission on the 2026 Showreel. Devs can submit published or in-progress games or tools made with Godot to be featured in this year's edition and be presented on various occasions.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Under the Hood: Making the Sprites of Fishbowl — (imissmyfriends)

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G+ Under the Hood: Making the Sprites of Fishbowl

In our regular GamesMarket developer series, game studios present pictures of what's going on under the hood of in their game making process. This time, imissmyfriends leads us through the sprite making process of several characters in Fishbowl.

By Pascal Wagner • 3 min read

Meshy 7: Keeping Generated Assets on Model

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Meshy 7: Keeping Generated Assets on Model

Advertorial | With Meshy 7, the newest model generation from Meshy, delivers industry-leading geometric alignment — with generated meshes following the silhouette, proportions and structural edges of the reference image. For more information visit Meshy at gamescom at Hall 3.2, Stand A040.

By Meshy.ai • 1 min read

Consistency Over Volume: The Real Test for AI-Generated 3D Assets in Game Production — Style consistency through dialogue: the Meshy 3D Agent generates an entire character family from a single prompt — six variants with unified design, proportions and colour palette. (Image: Meshy)

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Consistency Over Volume: The Real Test for AI-Generated 3D Assets in Game Production

Advertorial | Generative AI has long been able to produce a 3D model in seconds. For studios, however, its value hinges on a different question: whether the results are consistent enough to actually save production time.

By Meshy.ai • 3 min read

Unity Announces Release of Unity 7 For Q1 2027 — Matt Bromberg, President and CEO, Unity

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Unity Announces Release of Unity 7 For Q1 2027

At Unite in Seoul, Unity unveiled the roadmap for the release of Unity 7. The beta is set to launch in December. The release is scheduled for Q1 2027.

By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read

Subotron Launches ‘Playing Art’ Competition for Austrian Developers — The FROG Conference will take place at Belvedere 21 in November (Picture: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien)

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Subotron Launches ‘Playing Art’ Competition for Austrian Developers

Developers from Austria have until 30 September to submit ideas based on the Belvedere’s Open Content Collection. A jury will select games from these submissions for exhibition at Belvedere 21 and as entries for the Austrian Impact Game Idea 2026 competition.

By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read

Immersive Media Days 2026 Showcases Nine Projects from Munich Game Students — The group of students and coaches at the Immersive Media Days 2026 (Benedikt Gess/HFF)

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Immersive Media Days 2026 Showcases Nine Projects from Munich Game Students

Nine projects from two cooperative study courses held by several Munich universities together, coached by experts: The Immersive Media Days are a great example of cooperation between games learning and games industry.

By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read

Why AI Makes Sense in All Areas, But Not For All Tasks — Thomas Lehr, Director of Game Engineering at InnoGames

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G+ Why AI Makes Sense in All Areas, But Not For All Tasks

Sunrise Village is still online thanks to the use of AI. Thomas Lehr, Director of Game Engineering at InnoGames, talks about the reactions to the Sunrise Village case, when and how the use of AI can be effective and why InnoGames uses AI to drive growth but not for cost savings.

By Stephan Steininger • 7 min read