People Womenize! Inspiring Stories: Alina Gribanova 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
People Philipp Düllmann Assumes Additional Responsibilities at Warner Bros. in Germany Philipp Düllmann is now Communications & Product Manager Games at Warner Bros. Entertainment in Germany, according to his LinkedIn profile. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Archive image from the Indie Arena Booth 2025 and Leonie Wolf | Pictutes by Indie Arena Booth 2025, Rolf Otzipka; Leonie Wolf People Super Crowd Entertainment Strengthens Indie Arena Booth Project Team with Leonie Wolf Since mid-February, Leonie Wolf has been strengthening the Hamburg-based Super Crowd Entertainment, organiser of Polaris in Hamburg, but also of the Indie Arena Booth at gamescom. Leonie Wolf is jointly responsible for the IAB as project manager. By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read
Soon heading the BMFTR Games Division: Dr Matteo Riatti, formerly head of the games funding at the DLR Projektträger (Riatti/BMFTR) People Matteo Riatti Becomes Head of Games Division at Research Ministry Until now the head of games funding at the DLR Projektträger, from 1 March onward Head of the Games Division at the Federal Research Ministry: Matteo Riatti brings his expertise to Berlin. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Not slimy at all - Johannes and Simone Grünewald are currently at work on Slime King Games' first game. © Johannes and Simone Grünewald People Slime King Games: A Married Developer Couple Doing Their Thing From Indie to AAA – Every issue, we portray one studio from the German-speaking development scene. This time: Slime King Games from Hamburg. To commemorate the release of Under the Island, we unlock the studio portrait for everyone. By Marcel Kleffmann • 3 min read
Nina Schild is now Webedia Germany's Senior PR & Communications Manager (Webedia/Schild) People Nina Schild Has Been Promoted to Webedia’s PR Senior Webedia's Nina Schild, PR liaison for the German publications like GameStar, FYNG and GamePro, has been promoted to Senior position. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Martin Wahlund, CEO of Fatshark © Joel Marklund People Seven Questions for Martin Wahlund, CEO of Fatshark Several updates and years were needed for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide to reach a genuinely good state. Fatshark is satisfied, too. We spoke to the company's CEO, Martin Wahlund, about class DLCs, the co-op-centred design, and the parallel development of Darktide and Vermintide 2. By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 min read
Johanna Pirker © Matthias Rauch People UN Appoints TU Munich Professor Johanna Pirker to AI Expert Panel The UN has named the 40 members of the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence. Among them are TUM professor Johanna Pirker, Maximilian Nickel (Meta), as well as Bernhard Schölkopf and Mennatallah El-Assady from ETH Zurich. By Stephan Steininger • 2 min read
People Sandro Odak is ZA/UM's New Marketing Principle - PR & Influencer The company behind Disco Elysium recruits one of GSA's best PR heads: Sandro Odak, formerly of Techland, Microsoft and Webedia, is Marketing Principle - PR & Influencer for the company that is currently working on Zero Parades. His first job: Announcing the demo of the game for 23 February. By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read
Benjamin Lochmann is the CEO of Pixel Maniacs, the studio behind ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard. People G+ Interview: Ben Lochmann on Accessibility and Visual Clarity in ChromaGun 2 For the release of ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard, we spoke to Pixel Maniacs CEO Benjamin Lochmann about their tremendous colourblind mode and what challenges the visual design of their colour-focused game faced in playtesting. By Pascal Wagner • 4 min read
David Helgason, Tomer Bar-Zeev and Bernard Kim | Pictures/archive pictures by Unity, Viola Group, Business Wire People Unity Reports Increased Revenue, Reduced Losses And Departure of Founder David Helgason The stock market reacted to the latest news from Unity with a sharp drop in share prices. Bernard Kim was introduced as a new board member after company founder David Helgason and Tomer Bar-Zeev stepped down on 5 February. The figures presented, however, show an upward trend. By Stephan Steininger • 3 min read
Benjamin Rostalski (right) and moderator Uke Bosse at German Computer Game Awards 2025 (Rostalski/DCP) People G+ Benjamin Rostalski: "Variety of Perspectives is the DCP Jury's Great Strength" We interviewed Benjamin Rostalski, Head of the Award Office of the German Computer Game Awards, about the jury selection, the award process and who can and can't become juror. By Pascal Wagner • 2 min read
