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Fourth Floor is proud to share Feb 19th's Convergence Games Showcase video links following another successful event. Hosted by Dodger and Jesse Cox, in partnership with IGN, the event debuted over 30 highly anticipated AA and Indie games for 2026, including first gameplay reveals, world premieres, and exclusive content from Curve Games, Gambit Digital, and Playside.

Second Stage, the company behind the transformative marketing platform TRACKS, is solving one of the PC and console gaming industry’s biggest marketing challenges: accurately tracking the impact of advertising spend on wishlists and purchases.

Digital Extremes announced that Warframe is now available worldwide on the Google Play Store for Android. In this free sci-fi epic, players join an ancient warrior caste, the Tenno, and fight their way through an ever-expanding universe. Android players can look forward to squadding up with players around the world with Cross Platform Play and Cross Platform Save on iOS, PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch, and soon, Nintendo Switch 2, in joining one of the most thrilling and welcoming communities in online gaming.

FirstLook, the first and only player relationship platform built for the games industry, today officially launches with groundbreaking new features to transform games marketing for all studios and publishers with highlights including creator campaign management, community sentiment analysis, and a new free tier for indies.

This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content. From February 23 to March 30, founders, start-ups, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for Prototype Funding from Gamecity Hamburg. Applicants can receive up to 80,000 euros in funding for the development of digital games. …

Clear Angle Studios, the market-leading 3D and 4D capture and processing company for the film and TV industries, has today announced its acquisition of the tech stack and IP from facial imaging and performance capture specialist DI4D.

Leading UK games publisher and distributor PQube has announced the appointment of Dominic Wheatley as Chairman.

The CatLands demo is now live, offering a cosy landscape puzzle game where you match blocks to solve relaxing levels, then grow a small village as you play (with cats to collect along the way).

G2 Esports, one of the world's most decorated esports organisations, and Theta Labs, the leading blockchain-powered decentralised cloud provider for AI and media, today announced the launch of an AI agent for G2's global fan community across multiple competitive titles including League of Legends, Counter-Strike 2, VALORANT, Rainbow Six Siege, and Call of Duty.

By Artem Shkafenko, Head of Marketing at Upscale Studio. There is a growing trend among indie developers to skip publishers and self-publish directly to consoles. I work in console publishing, and I often see solo developers asking: “Why should I share revenue with a publisher? I can just buy a …