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BelGameDev News Review 🎮🎯 📍Sea Of Thieves Was The Most Downloaded PlayStation 5 Game In May 📍PlayStation Rolling Out Update To Allow Players To Join Discord Chat Directly From PS5 📍Epic Games Store and Fortnite coming to iOS in Japan next year Follows the passing of new competition law in Japan 📍V Rising tops UK charts in May | UK Monthly Charts But overall software, hardware and accessory sales are down once again 📍UK digital rights campaigner sues Valve for £656m over alleged anti-competitive practices Claim accuses Steam maker of market dominance and overcharging consumers 📍Voodoo acquires BeReal for €500m Mobile publisher to support social media app in product strategy, user growth, and infrastructure 📍Deadline for EQT Group's proposed acquisition of Keywords Studio extended Private equity firm within group that is considering cash offer for services empire has until June 28 to formally announce 📍Apple expands games line-up with new dev tool Over a dozen games to receive official Mac ports, including Assassin's Creed Shadows at launch 📍DeepWell Digital Therapeutics launches Zengence as a game to treat mental health 📍Atomontage launches first test of Virtual Matter voxel-based game dev technology 📍Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform 📍PrizePicks introduces esports education tool for fantasy sports fans 📍Sequence will offer Aethir decentralized GPUs on demand for Web3 games

BelGameDev News Review 🎮🎯 📍Resident Evil Village passes 10m sales | News-in-brief Capcom says the 2021 horror title is the fastest in the series to reach this milestone 📍Aptoide becomes first non-Apple iOS store App store has launched with six games, including Word Jungle and Condor – A Leap of Faith 📍Content studio Offbrand launches games publishing label Offbrand Game's first title is the sequel to 2017's platform fighter Rivals of Aether 📍Asia and MENA games market expected to hit $100bn by 2028 Niko Partners report also says region generated $85.5 billion in 2023 📍Among Us dev Innersloth starts new indie game fund Outersloth Six games already signed as studio aims to help fellow indies and create a "better, more sustainable industry" 📍Doom Eternal's long-awaited follow-up is a medieval prequel called Doom: The Dark Ages Doom Guy has a combination chainsaw Captain America shield now 📍Repeatedly delayed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake is now set for release in 2026 and no longer has 'remake' in the title The latest tease for Ubisoft's laggard Sands of Time remake was very silly. 📍Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Will Let You Live Out Your Aviation Career Dreams This November 📍Resident Evil 7: Biohazard And Resident Evil 2 Remake Are Coming To iPhone 15 Pro And Other Apple Platforms 📍Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Release Date Set For October

BelGameDev News Review 🎮🎯 📍Project G-Assist Is Nvidia's New AI-Powered Game Guides And PC Optimization Program Ark: Survival Ascended will be the first game to make use of Nvidia's new generative AI app. 📍John Romero's autobiography to get two adaptations A documentary and a drama series are set to release based on 2023's Doom Guy: Life in First Person 📍Worldwalker Games goes into hibernation "Nobody is shutting us down. We are going into hibernation because we are done with this project," clarified co-owner Nate Austin 📍Take-Two reportedly planning to close or sell Private Division Sources claim publisher told staff in April that it will no longer support indie-focused label 📍UK games companies can now sign-up to this year's games industry salary benchmarking service GamesIndustry.biz and Brightmine team-up for 2024 project after successful pilot 📍Wordle in legal row with geography spinoff, Worldle 📍Azur Games moves into real money gaming with new iGaming spin-off 📍Just Cause Developer Closing Two Studios, Including One That's Only Been Open Since October 📍God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC

BelGameDev News Review 🎮🎯 📍‘Minecraft’ Animated Series in the Works at Netflix Featuring New Characters 📍Stellar Blade beats older Fallout titles to top the charts 📍Destiny 2: The Final Shape Raid Launch Time And Everything We Know 📍Open World Dress-Up Game Infinity Nikki Gets A Delightful Gameplay Trailer And Beta Test This Year 📍A New Astro Bot Game Is Coming To PS5 In September 📍PlayStation Says Live-Service Games Will Launch Day-And-Date On PC, But Single Player Games Won't 📍ZeniMax staff now included in Microsoft and CWA's labour neutrality agreement 📍New studio Juicy Button raises $3m in seed funding round 📍Intercept Games facing layoffs by end of June 📍Didimo unveils new character editor in Popul8 game dev tool

BelGameDev News Review 🎮🎯 📍Genshin Impact developer's upcoming urban action RPG lands summer release date 📍Cyberpunk 2077 Player Finds Easter Egg After 400 Hours of Playing 📍Bungie wins court battle against Destiny cheat site AimJunkies 📍Uvalde school shooting victims sue Activision, claiming it's the "most prolific marketer of weapons in the US" 📍Super Earth scientists 'spaghettified' in Dark Fluid research incident: Here's why that's good news for Helldivers 2 players 📍Rainbow Six Siege fans roundly boo the announcement of a new monthly subscription service 📍Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica remakes currently in development, leak claims 📍Microsoft alert confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 day one Xbox Game Pass launch

BelGameDev News Review 🎮🎯 📍Games industry layoffs surpass 10,000 for 2024 so far 📍PlayStation Exec Believes Game Developers Will Prioritize "Immersive Narratives" Over Ever-Improving Graphics In Future 📍PlayStation London Studio posts final goodbye, as it closes its doors forever 📍Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian Opens New Studio As Development On Two 'Very Ambitious' RPGs Continues 📍UK passes DMA-like bill that could force Apple to allow other games stores on iOS 📍Microsoft to integrate AI into games 📍Nintendo acquires Switch port specialist Shiver Entertainment from Embracer 📍Relic Entertainment is 'returning to its roots as an independent creative studio,' but it's also owned by a global investment firm now 📍Blizzard confirms it's working on a 1-5 player 'story difficulty' for its big raids in World of Warcraft: The War Within, and it's honestly about time 📍Atari Buys Ancient Rival Intellivision, Insists The Amico Is Still Coming

BelGameDev News Review 🎮🎯 📍Alan Wake 2 wins Game of the Year at Finnish Game Awards 2024 📍Popular iPhone emulator in legal trouble - but not from Nintendo 📍Fae Farm developer Phoenix Labs lays off staff and cancels projects in significant restructure 📍Private equity firm in talks to buy Keywords Studios 📍Bandai Namco reports record sales and rise in profits despite video game decline 📍Player1 reportedly lays off staff, closes down Insomnia Gaming Festival 📍Capes is a superhero game about the legacy its heroes inherit, but also the legacy of turn-based tactics as a genre 📍Ubisoft's XDefiant system requirements are so low that even a manky old potato will run the game

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BelGameDev News Review 🎮🎯 📍Assassin's Creed Shadows Is Ditching An Iconic Franchise Feature 📍All The PlayStation Plus May 2024 Games For Premium And Extra Subscribers 📍Activision Announces New Studio Making "All-New Franchise" 📍Fortnite to appeal €1.1m fine over "unfair commercial practices aimed at children" 📍ESA: 61% of Americans play games at least one hour a week 📍New blockchain-based game Haliens introduces revolutionary player ownership mechanics 📍Param Labs raises $7M to fund gaming ecosystem development 📍Dead by Daylight celebrates 8th year with D&D, Project T, Supermassive’s Frank Stone, Castlevania and What the Fog 📍June 1 is Going to Be a Big Day for Splatoon 3 📍Should You Play Ghost of Tsushima in Japanese or English?

BelGameDev News Review 🎮🎯 📍The 25 Best Co-Op Games To Play In 2024 📍The Most Iconic Moms In Video Games 📍The Most-Downloaded PS5 Games Of April 2024 📍Square Enix Will Begin Layoffs As Part Of 'Structural Reforms' This Week 📍Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Formerly Known As Codename Red, Gets World Premiere This Week 📍Why Sweden's games industry is still growing 📍Pentiment and We Are OFK win Peabody Awards 📍Remedy will launch Alan Wake 2: The Original Soundtrack 📍The coolest tabletop RPGs based on videogames, from Fallout to Dragon Age 📍6 months after a complete reboot, Remedy cancels the multiplayer game it was making with Tencent