News before you leave the office for 🎅HOOHOOlidays

We wish you a truly magical 2026

In our mission to further professionalize the sector, we organised 14 expert talks and info sessions this year. All of these are available in the Flanders Game Hub Vault, which now holds over 60 videos covering the crucial topics indie developers need to succeed, both on a company level and project level.

This year, we also celebrated a major milestone: surpassing 250 registered developers in our network.

We coached 12 studios in our support program (bringing the total to 23 to date), meeting every two weeks to track business progress, unlock expert links, matchmake with talent, and help raise capital. Find out what our studios & partners think about Flanders Game Hub.

Whether you supported us as an expert, showcased your game or project, or partnered with us, your contribution made all the difference in our journey through 2025!

Read the full blogpost here

Dev Tool Demo: Stop Guessing What Players Think

(Jan. 27, 4 P.M.)

Discover how to automatically track what players are saying about your game across Steam reviews, Discord communities, Reddit, YouTube, and social media all in one place.

In this 30-minute demo, you'll see how Gameplainer sends real-time Discord notifications when your game is mentioned, analyses review sentiment in 30+ languages, and helps you spot problems before they become disasters.

Register now (for free)

BUFF Event (Jan. 16)

How Marketing Empowers Your Games

During BUFF 2026, we will delve deeper into how marketing not only enhances games, but also creates new opportunities for developers, creators and gamers.

Where: C-mine Crib Genk

January 16, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

More info & tickets here

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FGH Company Portfolio Updates

New game: Vandalizer

A truck, a 💩or... a T-Rex, you can paint anything!

Vandalizer is a free-to-play VR graffiti game where you can paint and customise 3D objects, from pickup trucks and gigantic skulls to walls and giant emojis, anything that could use a splash of… personality!

Earn points for every spray, and use them to unlock even wilder objects to decorate next. All the excitement of graffiti, with none of the risk.

Play it now

Speaking of dinos…

New Demo: Dino-Ducks Mayhem

Dino-Ducks Mayhem is a twin-stick shooter with bullet heaven vibes, wrapped around a duck-builder system, set in a duck-tastic world and all about surviving as long as you can while everything explodes around you. 🦖

Play the Demo now!

Order 13, and Roadside Research

Cybernetic Walrus has sold over 125,000 copies with Order 13,  and Roadside Research has more than 425,000 Steam wishlists!

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VAF Support

Great news! Several studios in our Cohort have received funding from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF).
These are the games that were selected:

• Couch Potato Studios with Grim Hold
• Oisoi with Wait, What's That?
• Purple Puppet / Kito Kato with Purrder in Bruges
• Zamarkand with Gondola To Hopper

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Belgian Game of the Year: Koira - made by Studio Tolima

Save a (super cute) puppy 🐾 and embark on a heartwarming, hand-drawn adventure together.

Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest, solving puzzles and avoiding hunters to protect your newfound friend. 💛

Check out the BGA winners here

Rewatch the whole show on Twitch

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Larian Studios announced their project, Divinity, at the Game Awards.

Made by the team behind Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios brings you its most ambitious RPG yet, with more depth and freedom than ever before.

Divinity is a brand-new game and easy to jump into with no prior experience. Players who’ve played Divinity: Original Sin or Divinity: Original Sin 2 will also notice familiar elements and story connections.

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Industry news

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🌍 The big winner at The Game Awards was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, taking home 9 awards out of 12 total nominations. If you're wondering what impact that has, it sold 200K+ copies since the TGA on Steam & 52K new players tried it via Xbox Game Pass.

🌍 Kotaku sources reveal 3 minute trailer at The Game Awards costs over $1M.

🌍 Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. Entertainment for a total enterprise value of $82.7B

🌍 iam8bit is suing Skybound Entertainment for $4M, alleging breach of contract, fraudulent expenses, theft of designs, and claiming that Skybound used iam8bit's trade secrets to cut it out of a Stray deal.

🌍Britain's Prime Minister promises an investigation into Rockstar Games's alleged union busting.

🌍 Epic Games is accepting new submissions for the Epic Mega Grant. More info

🌍 The Debug Indie Game Awards are accepting submissions again, more info here.

🌍 ForsVC-backed studio Twirlbound wins Best Audio award at the Dutch Game Awards with Knightling.

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👉 Flanders Game Hub created a list of Belgian studios that are looking for a co-founder. More info here.

👉Gamenest, the new gaming hub in Gent, is also organising a Global Game Jam. The Jam will be held from 30 January until 1 February. Deadline to enter is 26 January. More info here.

👉The one in Antwerp seems to be maxed out, but you can put yourself on the waiting list. More info here.

👉 Cybernetic Walrus shared some recent stats, like surpassing 1000 reviews on Order 13 and ranking in the top 100 most wishlisted games on Steam with Roadside Research (they shared they were at spot #97 with 424,183 wishlists)

👉Buff Pxl is organising a Marketing in Games event on 16 January, in C-Mine Genk, hosted by Natchai Stappers. More info

👉 Pajama Llama Games & Stray Fawn Studio, launched the trailer of Flotsam!

👉Vandalizer, Oisoi Studio's latest VR title, where you use spraycans to tag various objects, is Out Now for FREE on Meta Quest!

👉Larian Studios announced their new title, Divinity at The Game Awards.

They also released an updated version of Divinity: Original Sin 2 on Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X & PS5.

👉The Belgian Game Awards took place last week, with Koira from Studio Tolima taking home Belgian Game of the Year (as well as Best Audio & Best Narrative). Our ForsVC studios also took home awards: Cyborn won Best XR with Wall Town Wonders, and Oisoi Studio was crowned Best Multiplayer with Wait What's That?

Here is an overview of all winners & nominees.

You can still visit the Steam event here to discover even more BGA nominees.

and if you want to (re)watch the show online, you can do so here.

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