Weekly Belgian Game News Week 40-41

🌍 Devolver Digital launched Big Fan – a brand new label giving developers license to create original game adaptations using the worlds & characters of iconic film, television, and comic properties.
🌍 Vampire Survivors developer poncle is launching its own publishing arm.
🌍 Merge Games Ltd. closed down after 15 years.
🌍 Retro game streaming service Antstream Arcade has laid off a small number of people.
🌍 Not just development studios are facing lay-offs, games media continues to be under heavy fire as well: GGRecon, GAMURS Group, PLAY Magazine, and most of Dexerto have been fired.
🌍 Palworld is coming to mobile, ported by PUBG Mobile publisher KRAFTON Inc..
🌍 Check out the Dutch Game Awards 2024 winners here.
🌍 Epic Games has won its Google Play Store U.S. court case. Google must distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play for the next 3 years, and Google Play cannot pay games for exclusivity on Android.
🌍 Steam Next Fest is taking place soon (October 14-21) and Valve made some changes to the event. They had a few Q&A moments that are recapped here by Pirate PR.

🇧🇪 Three Belgian games have teamed up for a Belgian Horror Bundle on Steam:
- Alisa by Casper Croes
- The Tower on the Borderland by Jochen Mistiaen
- Spookware by Beeswax Games
Check it out here.
🇧🇪 Necro Story, a creature collection RPG by Rablo Games, launched on PC, Switch & Xbox. PS5 to follow soon.
🇧🇪 Rogueside announced Best Served Cold, a bartender/detective combo in an alt-history Europe.
🇧🇪 Mantis Games announced their roguelike deck builder where you play as a haunted house: Deck of Haunts.
🇧🇪 The Belgian Game Awards live show takes place next week on the 18th of October. Get your tickets here.
🇧🇪 Glowfish Interactive is working with Rangatang to develop Nubs!
🇧🇪 UNWRAP | Digital Entertainment Festival announced its full schedule.
🇧🇪 ForsVC has invested in StriveCloud as part of their successful €1.35M financing round. It’s a gamification tool that helps brands supercharge user engagement & retention. With this new funding, StriveCloud will further enhance its platform to boost app and website performance internationally.

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