Here are the Games Industry Highlights | Week 32-34 provided by ForsVC.

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🌍 Charles Martinet, the legendary voice of Mario, is stepping back from the microphone and will no longer be recording his voice for Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and many other characters.

🌍 More and more companies are hiring for fully remote positions, including Bungie who has expressed a commitment to a digital-first future without a return to office mandate.

🌍 October is so busy, multiple games are shifting release times to avoid the rush. Including Alan Wake 2 and Assassin’s Creed Mirage.

🌍 The Pokémon Company International has acknowledged the issues that come from releasing main-line titles too close to each other and will take steps to avoid it.

🌍 Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch 2 launched on Steam but faced waves of negative reviews. Only 9% of the 155K+ reviews are positive. Blizzard & NetEase Games ended their agreement for the distribution of Blizzard PC games in China, leading chinese players to lose their accounts. The launch on Steam is the first time that gamers can vent on an open and international platform, with many taking the opportunity to do so.

🌍 Microsoft plans to sell off Activision Blizzard cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft, in a bid for UK approval of its $68.7 billion deal. This is a big restructuring of the acquisition.

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👉 CrazyGames’ Flash games collection has been named “the best collection of such games on the web right now” by WIRED.

👉 Triangle Factory has announced that they’ll be working with Modulate and using the ToxMod solution to make Breachers a fun & safe environment. ToxMod allows them to identify & review toxic behavior and Rules of Conduct violations that happen in voice chat.
 
👉 Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 keeps gettings impressive numbers, not just in concurrent players on Steam, but now also in review scores. Getting IGN Entertainment’s highest score in 16 years (97/100) and becoming the highest ranked game ever on OpenCritic.com

👉 Studio Tolima announced their debut title, published by DON’T NOD. Koira is a musical, hand-drawn adventure where you save a puppy and try to make your way home. https://lnkd.in/eqaYrhgz

👉 Starship Troopers Terran Command by The Artistocrats will receive a large DLC this fall, called Raising Hell, introducing new missions, bugs & weaponry.

👉 Eric Diepeveen and Sam De Boeck have started work on a Belgian Games Industry directory. If you have a game development studio, or provide services for them, be sure to claim your spot and fill in your info: https://lnkd.in/eqEfcR6p

👉 The Belgian exhibitors are getting ready for gamescom! Come find them in Hall 4.1, A31-B40 (Business Area). Here is a reel to get you in the gamescom spirit: https://lnkd.in/exgFagtX