Events:
- Aalto University’s Games Now! lectures start on Jan 19 with Leigh Alexander: “Gender, Games and Indie Rock”. You can watch it here live or later as a recording.
- DIGILE’s traditional Foresight Seminar will be organized in Helsinki on Jan 28
- BeatCon Music & Games Festival will be on Jan 29-31 in Jyväskylä
- Check out the Team Finland offer for Mobile World Congress 2015
Releases:
- Ostrich Island by MeDungeon was released on Steam
- Nitro Games released Raids of Glory for iOS
- 10tons released Sparkle Epic for iOS
Announcements:
Open jobs:
- PlayRaven is hiring
- Nitro Games is hiring
- Skydome in hiring
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Suvi from Neogames shares her top tips for surviving and thriving at game conferences
- Game Studies Thesis Competition 2015 is now open. Submission deadline is 13.2.2015.
- Crowdfunding campaign for the book Suuret seikkailupelit (Great adventure games) is now live
- Dome readers voted Legend of Grimrock 2 as the best Finnish game of 2014 (in Finnish)
This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish games industry. If you want to have your news on the list, post them to the Play Finland Facebook group. The summary will be posted every Friday afternoon. See last week’s post here.