Weekly Belgian Game News Week 22-23

Here are the Games Industry Highlights | Week 22-23 | 2024

🌍 The PlayStation VR2 PC adapter will launch on August 7, letting players expand their game library with thousands of SteamVR titles.
🌍 Avalanche Studios Group has announced the closure of its Montreal and New York studios.
🌍 Take-Two Interactive is looking to offload indie-focused publishing label Private Division.
🌍 Yakuza is the next game to receive a live series adaptation, with Like a Dragon: Yakuza coming to Amazon Prime in October.
🌍 Signups are open for Courage Cologne until 16 June. A showcase event for indies on the eve before gamescom. https://courage.events/event/courage-cologne-2024/
🌍 The Nintendo Switch has become the best-selling console in Japan’s history, with 32.9 million units sold. The previous record was held by the Nintendo DS with 32.86 million systems.
🌍 It’s the year of indie success, with Half-Life-inspired survival game Abiotic Factor selling 300,000 copies so far (and Playstack also published the even more popular Balatro before it). Manor Lords, which released end of April, sold over 2M copies. Content Warning, which released for Free on April 1st got 8M downloads and has now sold 2.2M units.
🌍 Lots of video game events are happening in the coming days, here is a useful overview courtesy of Ryan Brown: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sFuEDPIv7QWSAPs45LV-x8pbMis4pijXCbPPMwS4xXY/edit#gid=1517582986

🇧🇪 Flanders Game Hub opened its Academy/vault, making their Expert Talks available to everyone: https://www.flandersgamehub.be/vault/home
🇧🇪 The Belgian Game Awards next deadline is for Student games. Each school can submit their best 3 student games before June 28th. https://awards.belgiangames.be
🇧🇪 Murky Divers by Oro Interactive will release on the 19th of June and had its trailer featured on IGN: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p_RcNPssGZI
🇧🇪 Helix: Descent N Ascent from Badass Mongoose has launched its Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2736370/Helix_Descent_N_Ascent/
🇧🇪 Walga.be is opening its new office in Liège and invites everyone for a drink on June 7: https://my.weezevent.com/walga-pendaison-de-cremaillere-a-liege
🇧🇪 Flemish Games Association is hosting a members-only party on the 20th of June: https://flega.be/the-annual-flega-party-is-here
🇧🇪 The AI in Digital Arts, Game Dev & Entertainment N°2 happens tomorrow, 5th of June in Hangar K Kortrijk: https://www.meetup.com/ai-in-digital-arts-game-development-and-entertainment/events/300859017/
🇧🇪 ForsVC will be at Indigo24 in Utrecht on June 19th, meet us there: https://indigoshowcase.nl/

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