TagsWeekly News,
Supercell has invested in new Finnish Game Studio, Redly Games. Critical Force has reached 100 million instals for Critical Ops in Google Play. Solid and beautiful new Finnish games have been released this week, with even more arriving next week. Plus, several standout Finnish titles are available to add to your Steam wishlist. Big surprise of the week was Brawl Stars has teaming up with WWE star John Cena to launch its SpongeBob (alias Paavo Pesusieni!) SquarePants collaboration. It is worth to mention that 1939 Games is harnessing the power of Golden Whale’s machine learning and data analytics to optimize its player insights.
💎Highlights
- Supercell invested in Redly Games, which is an independent gaming studio based in Helsinki, Finland, operating with a fully remote team.
- Critical Force announced that Critical Ops has reached 100 MILLION installs on Google Play!
- Brawl Stars teams up with WWE star John Cena to kick off its SpongeBob SquarePants collaboration
- Golden Whale partners with 1939 Games for machine learning-powered player insights
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📣Neogames News
- Neogames Finland Chief Business Advisor Suvi Latva visited Helsinki Business College Oy to introduce the Finnish Game Industry to the students and future talents.
- Neogames’ Director, KooPee Hiltunen, participated in an event about the Labour Force Barometer, which was organised by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
📰 Game Industry News and thoughts
- Join the Pocket Gamer Connects Careers Zone in Helsinki powered by Games Factory Talents. Connect with hiring companies or game development talent online and onsite at the conference. Key Features:
- Matchmaking via Games Factory Talents tool
- Book and conduct interviews onsite or online
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- Kajaani University of applied sciences invites it’s alumnies to meet up at Northern Game Summit
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Ephemeris by YrdVaab can be wishlisted on Steam
- Goblin Camp will be published in Steam early access on 17.9.
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Horsefly Games is developing a space shooter that draws some certain influences from a certain Finnish classic from a few years ago. If you’re into some high-octane space rock blasting, you should add the game to your wishlist at Steam
- Rovio’s first year after the €706m acquisition; VP of strategy Timo Rahkonen unpacks how the companies have been supporting each other, and what to expect from both in the future
😍 NEW Finnish games released:
- Turbo Sliders Unlimited released globally at Steam (in Early Access since April 27, 2022). Press kit here.
- Punnu Games, launched Glow Pop on Steam
🇫🇮 Articles in Finnish
💰 Funding
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Games Factory talents offers oppprtunities also for people looking for a job at Pocket Gamer Connects Careers Zone.
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- Connect with with talents onsite and online
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- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine; “How to help me notice your job application”
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
💡 Good to know
👉 Upcoming Events
- 13th September Quantum Game Jam
- 13.09. – Entangle: Bridging Quantum and Classical Computing
- 13-15.09 – Quantum Game Jam 2024. Register on itch.io:
- https://itch.io/jam/quantum-game-jam-2024
- 16th September Playing for the Planet Alliance Member Meet & Greet
- 18th September: Game Industry in Turmoil / NGS side event
- 18-20th September Northern Game Summit / Kajaani
- 25th September webinar about Intellectual Property (IP) in the Gaming Industry, by EGDF and EUIPO
- 30th September; Meetup for Game Studio founders. The event is for game studios or soon-to-be game studios looking for more founders, or a game dev looking to be a part of team. Mobile and PC/Console devs are welcome to Hive Helsinki
- 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
- October 1st Show & Tell Game Mixer (by HypeHype & Phantom Game Labs & Google)
- 30th October Games First Helsinki Registration is open at https://supr.cl/gf-apply ! The event is free, but spaces are limited – apply for your ticket by August 30th.
- 15th November XmasJKL
See also following calendars:
- The Game Industry Events calendar (mostly relevant for Finnish Game industry)
- Game Conference Guide Calendar (more international (powered by EGDF and Slovakian games association)
- Flemish Game association calendar
- Game Industry Biz
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 roundups 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!
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Neogames Finland