Zurich Pop Con & Game Show Beats Last Year’s Record Figures

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

Events

GIC Reveals Almost 100 Sessions And Expects Largest Edition so Far

The organisers of the GIC have already announced nearly 100 sessions featuring speakers from Walt Disney Imagineering, Ubisoft, Activision, CD Projekt Red, Techland, 11 Bit Studios and Wargaming, amongst others. And they haven’t even revealed half of what’s to come.

By Stephan Steininger • 1 min read

Events

The Games Forum Roma Wants to Bring Together Games, Academia, Culture & Industry

Women in Games and Structura are bringing together industry professionals, academics, researchers, and cultural organisations for the first edition of The Games Forum Roma.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 1 min read

Products

Graveyard Keeper 2

The dead have risen – now send them back to their graves! In Graveyard Keeper 2, billed as the 'most accurately inaccurate medieval cemetery simulator', players must return to the graveyard. This time, there's automation, a zombie-led city recapture and much more beyond that.

By Marcel Kleffmann • 5 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