Softgames Is Celebrating Its 20th Anniversary, With Much More to Come
Founded by brothers Alexander and André Krug in 2006, Softgames, a developer and publisher of instant games, is celebrating its 20th anniversary today. The company remains independent and founder-owned. Its games reach around 2.5 million daily active players.
G+ Weekly Steam Charts: Modern Warfare 4 Takes the Lead, Final Fantasy Resonance Surprises
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has performed much better than Black Ops 7 (2025) and Modern Warfare III (2023) in the weekly Steam charts. Meanwhile, Final Fantasy Resonance has surprised many with its strong launch for a single-player Final Fantasy title.
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Pixel Conspiracy Reveals Vampire Tactics to 5K Wishlists in 24 Hours
Austrian-Polish indie team Pixel Conspiracy has revealed their gorgeous pixel art roguelike Vampire Tactics to a momentum of 5,000 wishlists in 24 hours. The game features art by tinyBuild Art Director and pixel art expert Thomas Feichtmeir.
GamesMarket Daily – 30 Oct 26: Softgames, ESL One, Spain, The Duskbloods, PUBG x Netflix, Browser-based Gaming
Once written off, browser-based gaming is regaining market share, partly because it does not have to contend with the hurdles posed by app stores. Meanwhile, Softgames is celebrating its anniversary and Spain’s trade associations are setting out their demands for the next government.
The Browser Strikes Back: Why Web-Based Gaming Becomes Industry’s Highest-Margin Hedge
In his latest update, industry expert Zoran Roso analyses how browser-based gaming has evolved from a post-Flash indie novelty into a multi-billion-dollar, high-margin hedge for studios looking to bypass walled-garden platform taxes and steep download friction.
Ahead of Election: Spain’s Games Associations Issue a Joint Call to Politicians
With one month to go before the general election, the two Spanish industry associations, AEVI and DEV, are joining forces and setting out five joint demands. Among other things, they are calling for tax incentives and a Spain Video Games Hub.GamesMarket Plus
G+ Interview: The Makings of Reality Fracture
How did Reality Fracture take shape after the last three years of Magic: The Gathering sets experimented heavily with settings and references? We spoke to Meris Mullaley, Roy Graham and Yoni Skolnik of Wizards of the Coast about planeswalkers, problems with Poison mechanics in the future and more.
G+ SPIEL 2026: The Board Game Industry on the Cusp of Digitalisation
Board and card games are the epitome of the analogue world – and yet they face the very same issues that preoccupy their digital counterparts. At Spiel 2026 in Essen, we asked people from the industry for their views on AI and its convergence with video games.
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Womenize! Inspiring Stories: Kim Fóri
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.
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Virtue and a Sledgehammer
In Virtue and a Sledgehammer, players return to their home village armed with nothing but a sledgehammer and set about demolishing it. While it may seem to be a gimmick centred on destruction, it is actually an intense sci-fi drama about grief, alienation, and the rise of AI.
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Pixel Conspiracy Reveals Vampire Tactics to 5K Wishlists in 24 Hours
Austrian-Polish indie team Pixel Conspiracy has revealed their gorgeous pixel art roguelike Vampire Tactics to a momentum of 5,000 wishlists in 24 hours. The game features art by tinyBuild Art Director and pixel art expert Thomas Feichtmeir.
GamesMarket Daily – 30 Oct 26: Softgames, ESL One, Spain, The Duskbloods, PUBG x Netflix, Browser-based Gaming
Once written off, browser-based gaming is regaining market share, partly because it does not have to contend with the hurdles posed by app stores. Meanwhile, Softgames is celebrating its anniversary and Spain’s trade associations are setting out their demands for the next government.
The Browser Strikes Back: Why Web-Based Gaming Becomes Industry’s Highest-Margin Hedge
In his latest update, industry expert Zoran Roso analyses how browser-based gaming has evolved from a post-Flash indie novelty into a multi-billion-dollar, high-margin hedge for studios looking to bypass walled-garden platform taxes and steep download friction.
