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Tabletop

Serious Games Summit Connects Risk-Assessors and Game Makers

At the Serious Game Summit in Lucerne, 45 analogue game makers, risk managers at public organisations and researchers came together to discuss the possibilities of games for adult teaching and crisis management education.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Tabletop

Pokémon Trading Card Game Launches 30th Celebration Set

The Pokémon TCG has released its 30 year anniversary set aimed at collectors and players at the same time. With a new rarity, all-foil boosters and guest art by Japanese artist Yoshirotten, the set is available from today.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Tabletop

Magic: The Gathering Arena Sunsets Alchemy

Wizards of the Coast is ending digital-only Alchemy cards in Magic: The Gathering Arena. The last Alchemy set will be the coming Reality Fracture release.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Daily

GamesMarket Daily - 25 September 2026: Slitherine Dominion Days, Swedish Unions, Russell Kay, Space Metal Mania & more

We see today how it looks when a union does what workers unionise for, and have more European leadership insights for you with answers from Russell Kay. Several releases and port announcements round out the day.

By Pascal Wagner • 6 min read

Products

THQ Nordic Mobile's Space Metal Mania Released on Luna

Developed by THQ Nordic Mobile (formerly Handy Games), Space Metal Mania has been released exclusively on Amazon Luna. This top-down space shoot'em up features metal music.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read

Business

Swedish Workers Achieve Union Contract at King

Unionen and Engineers of Sweden have achieved a union contract signing at Swedish mobile game dev and Microsoft subsidiary King.

By Pascal Wagner • 1 min read

Events

Slitherine's Dominion Days to Become Recurring Meeting Point for Strategy Gaming

Strategy games represent 15% of the market. Their players are a passionate but fragmented niche who get lost in major events. That's why Slitherine is organising its own strategy gaming hub, the Dominion Days, at Games Ground in Berlin for the first time. An interview about the background.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 7 min read

People

Russell Kay on the European Games Industry - GamesMarket Industry Leaders Survey 2026

How do gaming executives rate Europe's position in the global market? And what key challenges and trends are currently affecting the industry? We spoke to Russell Kay, Senior Product Director & Head of GameMaker at Opera (Norway), to find out.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 2 min read

Business

The Neural Brush: How DLSS 5 Rewrites Remaster Economics and Divides PC vs. Console Strategy

In his latest update, industry expert Zoran Roso analyses how Nvidia’s DLSS5 is cutting the production cycles of remaster projects by years, and how this could fundamentally change the video game economy.

By Zoran Roso • 4 min read