Gamescom 2026
Grandma(88) Makes You Decide When to Call Grandma a Liar
ROTxBLAU brought its strange family thriller to Gamescom with a playable build, a dying grandmother who controls the story and more than €10,000 riding on people noticing.
Gamescom 2026
Dick Stanley Wants Your Game Job to Survive the Game
At Gamescom, Evoc8 studio head Dick Stanley gave me a one-word reason for building a co-development company: joblessness. He wants finishing a project to stop meaning starting another job hunt.
Gamescom 2026
Tommy Thompson of AI and Games: When 25% Faster Is Worse
At Gamescom, the AI and Games founder showed why a process can run 25 per cent faster and still leave the people doing it with a worse job.
Gamescom 2026
Hank Howie Started in Games in 1989. Now the Competition Is TikTok.
At Gamescom, the ‘Zoo Tycoon’ veteran kept coming back to the same problem: everybody wants the player’s time now.
Gamescom 2026
Alex Jordan: AI Is Taking the Jobs Voice Actors Build Careers On
At Gamescom, ‘The Alters’ actor Alex Jordan explained how one word can separate two versions of the same man — and why the voice jobs disappearing to AI matter far beyond adverts and TV announcements.
Gamescom 2026
You Can’t Have Hans Zimmer for $50
At Gamescom, VP Production co-founder Ruslana Kruchek explained what happens when indie studios remember audio after the budget is already gone. Audio branding paid for her ticket to tell me about it.
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Fortune Fragments Makes You Earn the Dialogue Choice
At Gamescom, Runoi Games founder Jussi Meriläinen showed me a visual novel where character trouble reaches the hex grid. Unfortunately, Gamescom is also where a game like that gets about ten seconds before somebody has to be in Hall 7.
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Gamescom Is Sold Out. The Games Industry Is Still Laying People Off
Before Gamescom 2026 opened, its sold-out halls were already carrying an industry that had spent the summer laying off thousands. A pre-show essay on the reset behind the spectacle.
