Events:
- Stage’s Autumn Game Jam will be in Oulu Oct 24-26. See also the Facebook event.
Releases:
- Seriously released its first title: Best Fiends. Read more at the Forbes website.
- Still Running released newest edition to Zombie Kill of the Week: ZKW-Reborn at Google Play. See a comment by Super Game Droid.
- Belle Games’ Castle Defenders 4.0.0 Halloween update is now available in Play Store, Windows Phone Store and Windows Store for Free
- 10tons released Crimsonland for iOS
- Punch Wolf released SCAWAR Arcade Space Shooter at Google Play
Announcements:
Open jobs:
- Remedy is hiring
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Koopee Hiltunen from Neogames comments on the Rovio layoffs
- Lola Panda by BeiZ is hitting many of the top spots in Chinese iPad lists!
- Finnish education app SkillPixels picks up €1.65 million in funding
- Read a story about a teenager working for a week in a game studio Fake Fish for the school work experience period (TET)
- Fortune writes about Helsinki as a global video game hit factory
- Ubisoft online game specialist Teut Weidemann is giving lecture at the University of Jyväskylä
- The Kickstarter campaign for Bugbyte’s Battlestation: Humanity’s Last Hope has started
- Finnish Partnership for Research on Natural Resources and the Environment (LYNET) is calling all gaming and learning players and open data enthusiasts to create digital services together
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.