Weekly Belgian Game News Week 28-29

Here are the Games Industry Highlights | Week 28-29 | 2024

🌍 Kwalee has announced a minority investment in Devolver Digital. The mobile publisher now holds a 3.58% share of Devolver, which was made as part of its strategy to increase exposure of its PC & console segment.
🌍 Surgent Studios has announced their closure, following results of Tales of Kenzera: ZAU not meeting expectations. Just over 12 people are affected.
🌍 Techland posts a record loss of $22.8 million for 2023. They are working on an announced RPG and have had no releases this year.
🌍 Tech & culture news websites including Vice, Gizmodo, Refinery29, Kotaku, and Lifehacker will no longer publish in Australia, with dozens of jobs to be cut as the Pedestrian Group undergoes restructuring and cost-cutting.
🌍 To prevent scalpers cashing in on the expected Switch 2, Nintendo has made an announcement that it plans to meet the huge demand expected on day one.
🌍 Co-op games are disproportionately popular on Steam, capturing almost 50% of units sold: report.
🌍 The total number of players in XDefiant exceeded 11 million. Ubisoft aimed for 5M users/month.

🇧🇪 Flotsam by Pajama Llama Games (and published by Stray Fawn Studio) is nearing its 1.0 release and just celebrated 100,000 copies sold on Steam.
🇧🇪 Oro Interactive-published Murky Divers also hit 100K copies sold, in less than a month.
🇧🇪 Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds announced the results of the second funding call for this year for Artistic, Entertainment & Serious games: results.
🇧🇪 Bart Bonte is shortlisted for Best Indie Developer at the PocketGamer.biz Mobile Games Awards 2024. You can vote for him here until 22 July.
🇧🇪 Swen Vincke received the Medal of Honour of the Flemish Community. More info. The Baldur’s Gate 3 team also had to collect so many different awards that it affected the development team: they were sending rotating teams to collect them.
🇧🇪 SEA LIFE Blankenberge is introducing Animal Crossing characters into its park as of 10 July.
🇧🇪 LuGus Studios‘ Liftoff: XR Drone is available now on App Lab for Meta Quest 3. It’s 100% free. Try it here.
🇧🇪 Sign up for the Belgian Playtest Booth at Gameforce before July 31st: More info.
🇧🇪 Unreleased Belgian games looking to submit for the Most Anticipated Game award: You have ONE month left to submit: Submit here.

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