People Womenize! Inspiring Stories: Marie Pierre Thiam In their weekly interview series Womenize! features inspirational, diverse people who work in the games and tech industry, to share their experiences, give valuable advice and talk about their projects. In cooperation with Womenize! and Madeleine Egger, GamesMarkt is republishing these inspirations. By Madeleine Egger • 3 min read
Matthias Linda is suing First Press Games (Linda/FPG) People Chained Echoes: Matthias Linda is Suing First Press Games Seven year's after the Chained Echoes Kickstarter campaign, Matthias Linda is suing German distributor First Press Games over delayed physical editions. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
People GG Bavaria 2026: Impressions If you missed GG Bavaria 2026, relive the biggest iteration of Munich's gaming event with our image gallery. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
Stephen Lavelle alias increpare Games has made acclaimed Stephen's Sausage Roll in the past. With Oeuf, he's now delivering a 3D platforming challenge game (increpare) People G+ 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
Chris Hewish (President) and Berkley Egenes (Chief Marketing and Growth Officer) at Xsolla © Christer Berg / Xsolla Business "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
Mehring and the winners of the GG Awards 2026 (Kaspar Kozub / StMD Bayern) People 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
Gregorios Kythreotis is founder of Eteo Games and editor of Eteo Archetypes (Eteo) People Why Does A Game Studio Start a Games Magazine? The Creative Director behind Sable has expanded: Not into a publishing scheme or PR, but into games culture journalism. Eteo Archetypes is an ongoing collection of writing by some of the best culture authors in gaming. We talked to head of Eteo, Gregorios Kythreotis, about it. By Pascal Wagner • 5 min read
People Jean Guédon is Assassin's Creed's New Head of Content Ubisoft has revealed series veteran Jean Guédon as Assassin's Creed new Head of Content. He starts off strong: With making Black Flag Resynced official, patching Unity up for current consoles and talking about Hexe, Invictus and the last phase of Shadows' support cycle. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Quantumfrog and Pumuckl at gamescom 2025, with MD and founder Hendrik Rump in the front right (Rump) People G+ How the Northern Lights at Quantumfrog Made the First Pumuckl Game in 26 Years Pumuckl is a household name in Germany, and Quantumfrog from Oldenburg release his first game in 26 years today. We talked to MD and founder Hendrik Rump about crafting a Bavarian Kobold in Northern Germany and how three generations of Germans have been influenced by Pumuckl. By Pascal Wagner • 5 min read
Kalypso Media Group CEO Dr Anika Thun and Timea Edvi, Publishing Director Kasedo Games (right) | Pictures by Kalypso/Kasedo People Kalypso Media Appoints Timea Edvi as Publishing Director for Kasedo Games Timea Edvi is moving from Square Enix to Kalypso Media, or more precisely to its publishing label Kasedo Games. In her new role as Publishing Director, she will be responsible for global publishing strategy, portfolio development and partner relations. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
People Womenize! Inspiring Stories: Dana Publicover In their weekly interview series Womenize! features inspirational, diverse people who work in the games and tech industry, to share their experiences, give valuable advice and talk about their projects. In cooperation with Womenize! and Madeleine Egger, GamesMarkt is republishing these inspirations. By Madeleine Egger • 5 min read
Natalie Denk is now working on a financial education serious game at social enterprise Three Coins in Vienna (Denk/Three Coins) People Natalie Denk Becomes Serious Game Project Manager at Three Coins One of the heads behind FROG and the former lead of the Center for Applied Game Studies in Krems, Natalie Denk is now making a serious game on financial education at Three Coins in Vienna. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
