Events:
- Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 7.-8.9. IGDA members get a 40% discount!
- AGMA (Agents and Managers in Creative Industries) organizes an Interactive Seminar and Workshop on Building and Developing IPR Strategy in the U.S. and Asia (9.-10.9. in Helsinki)
- Join the Nordics at Game Connection Europe in Paris (28.-30.10.)
Releases:
Announcements:
- Tile Tales by Nordic Edu will be released on Sept 24
- Turmoil Games’ Alpha Polaris : A Horror Adventure Game is now on Steam Greenlight
- Kaljameri Games’ Running Beer is now on Steam Greenlight
Open jobs:
- Unity is hiring and having a recruitment party
- 10tons is hiring
- Remote Control is hiring
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Rovio sharpend focus on core businesses – the company will begin employee negotiations on up to 260 redundancies
- KooPee Hiltunen from Neogames commenting the Rovio news in Finnish morning show Tähtihetki
- Pocket Gamer goes through the history of Finnish game industry
- Get the Do’s and Don’ts for Notifications from Game Developer Seriously
- Frozenbyte released an apology video about Trine 3
- Tree Men Games – From Nothing to Success
- Frogmind’s iOS Classic ‘Badland’ Getting Level Editor Soon, Beta Testing Started
- Sign up as a volunteer for the National Game Day
- Valuable advises from Lasse Seppänen (PlayRaven) on how to better prepare to meet investors
- Forbes discussing Remedy’s 20 years in the game
This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish game 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 the previous post here.