Weekly Belgian Game News Week 26-27

Here are the Games Industry Highlights | Week 26-27 | 2024

🌍 Forza Horizon 4 (Playground Games) tops the sales charts on Steam and Xbox after news of getting delisted due to licensing problems. It even broke its record for concurrent Steam players on Thursday, June 27, climbing to almost 52,000 users.
🌍 Games Industry lay off news: An unknown number of staff have been let go across GAMURS Group. Affected publications include Destructoid Video Game News, Dot Esports and PC Invasion. Reorganization at Ubisoft Toronto has resulted in 33 redundancies.
🌍 Reminder to get your tickets for Courage Cologne if you’re going to gamescom and are already there on Tuesday.
🌍 Elden Ring (FromSoftware, Inc.) continues its success. It announced selling 25M copies right before the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC launched, and that massive expansion has already sold 5M copies of its own.
🌍 New research by PCGamesN shows that Steam users have spent around $19 billion on games they’ve never played.

🇧🇪 UNWRAP | Digital Entertainment Festival launched its reworked website and Early Bird Tickets for the event are now available. The event is now 5 days as they join forces with SonicCity.
🇧🇪 Game Mania – Pop’d sought and received protection from its creditors at the Antwerp corporate court on Thursday. It will now look for an acquirer.
🇧🇪 30 Birds by RamRam Games took home the main prize as the #INDIGO2024 Showcase winner.
🇧🇪 Bart Bonte has launched his latest mobile title called Purple, available now on Android & iOS.
🇧🇪 Volcaban Studio‘s KickStarter for their medieval themed board game Echoes of Emperors is off to a great start! It’s already 600% funded in its first week!
🇧🇪 We Who are about to Die (Jordy Lakiere) launched The Spectacles Update and reached a peak of 1200 concurrent players because of it. (last major update was 500!)
🇧🇪 Does It Stack? by Cybernetic Walrus and Laser Dance by Thomas Van Bouwel are now available to wishlist on Meta Quest: here and here.
🇧🇪 Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds is sharing a few Studio Profiles and Post Mortem videos on their YouTube. First up: Polygoat, Business Goose Studios, Bolt Blaster Games, Artistocrats, Sam Agten, LuGus Studios and more.

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