TagsWeekly News,
This week’s roundup highlights news from the past week in the Finnish Game Industry. In the future, this bulletin is again posted every Friday afternoon. You can find past weekly roundup here.
News are gathered from various industry sources and the Play Finland group posts during the week. Post your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group to get a chance to be included in the weekly roundup!
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland
💎 Highlights:
Neogames News
- Neogames Finland ry & Suomen Pelinkehittäjät wants to thank for our guests and sponsors (GOLD) Colossal Order Ltd Supercell + (silvers) Dreamloop Games, Fingersoft, Housemarque, HypeHype Inc., Metacore Games, Metaplay,Next Games, A Netflix Game Studio, Remedy Entertainment Plc, Small Giant Games and Ubisoft RedLynx making Finnish Game Awards #fga24 Memorable once again!
- Jari-Pekka Kaleva and Koopee Hiltunen from Neogames Finland attended to Nordic Game conference, that was celebrating its twentieth anniversary!! 🍾🥂Following Finnish Game studios and organizations from Oulu and Kajaani joined to the event at Slagthuset PlayFinland booths E5&E8.
- Kajaani booth E8;
Game Studios:
🌟 Seven Stars Games https://lnkd.in/d7ZCkaEh
🌟 Need more Bullets
🌟 Black Smoke Studios Oy
🌟 Kajaksi Coop
Organizations:
☀ Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (KAMK) / GameCity Kajaani
☀ Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (KAMK) / Pelikan
☀ Northern Game Summit
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Oulu booth E5;
Game Studios:
🌟 XPFIRST
🌟 Resistance Games
🌟 Borbware
🌟 Fingersoft
🌟 Bonus Stage Publishing
🌟 Spectarium Games
Organizations:
☀ BusinessOulu
- Kajaani booth E8;
Finnish Game Industry News
- Metaplay reveals true cost of tech needed to scale hit games, including the hidden impact on game programmers asked to work on backends
- A new book (in Finnish) about the history of Nokia’s N-Gage is out! Fantastinen floppi (Fantastic failure) expands on the topics that are discussed in the exhibition with the same name in the Finnish museum of games.
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Fashion Police Squad by Mopeful games is getting a physical release! You can now order a physical copy for the PS4 & PS5 at limited run
- Angry Birds Mystery Island: A Hatchlings Adventure comes to Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Kids+ this week in select regions!
- How Playtika triggered Sega’s Rovio acquisition and what happens next
- Fingersoft, the Finnish developer of Hill Climb Racing games, advances its growth strategy with three new director roles.
- Remedy Teases Possible Announcement for Summer Game Fest
Articles in Finnish
💰 Funding
- IGDA Finland Grant accepts applications, submit yours by May 31st.
- DigiDemo new application time opens at 20th May.
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
Upcoming Events
- 28th May Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup
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Guest: Amin Bakht, Head of User Acquisition at Phoenix GamesTopic: Automation in User Acquisition & Time: 18:00
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- 30th May-4th July; Monetization Workshop series from Multiscription
- May 30, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Crafting Your Business Strategy (Panel)
Moderator: Teis Anker Mikkelsen
Panelists: Sune Thorsen, Bhavin Sagar, Aysu Yildiz - June 6, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Monetization Mastery
Teis Anker Mikkelsen - June 13, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Analytics for Indie Success
Katla Hrund Björnsdóttir - June 20, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Marketing & Network Effect (Panel)
Moderator: Teis Anker Mikkelsen
Panelists: Sissel Morell Dargis & Ömer Yakabagi - June 27, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Publisher Partnerships 101
Søren Lass & Markus Windelen - July 4, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Interactive Round Table
Teis Anker Mikkelsen & TBD
- May 30, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Crafting Your Business Strategy (Panel)
- 30th May – 2nd June; CROSSING LATITUDES 2024 /Brazil – Finland Game Jam. W Love Games and Finnish Game Jam associations in collaboration with Embassy of Brazil in Helsinki are organizing
- 4th June; Game Studies day / Turku
- 25-27th June Metaversenergy Hackathon / Pori. Register before 12th June
- 18-20th September Northern Game Summit / Kajaani
- 30th September – 4th October: Finnish Games Week
- 30th September IGDA Finland Leadership Day 2024
- 1st-3rd October; Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2024
- discount code: PlayFinland20
- Be a speaker at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki this October? Submit your talk here
- 3rd October W Love Games Conference 2024
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz