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Good news again from the Finnish Game Industry! Social First has revealed Nexus Station, an upcoming cross-platform social sandbox MMO for Mobile and PC. Nitro Games is also making strides, expanding its development agreement with Digital Extremes to continue work on Warframe Mobile. Next week, the eagerly awaited Finnish Games Week begins with three key events: IGDA Leadership Day, Pocket Gamer Connects, and We Love Games, and you’ll also have a great opportunity to spot the Neogames team at all of these events.
💎Highlights
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📣Neogames News
- Neogames Finland crew will be presenting on newxt week Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki event;
- KooPee Hiltunen – “Finnish Game Industry – How are we Weathering the Storm”. 1st Oct at 9:30 / Track 1
- Suvi Latva – Press Start panel: What Platform Should Be Your Focus At Your Studio’s Birth? 1st Oct at 10:10 AM / Track 3.
- Jari-Pekka Kaleva – Is the Digital Markets Act Really Changing the Mobile Games Market for the Better? 1st Oct 2024 at 15:10 / Track 1
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- IGDA Chat Corner is coming to PG Connects Helsinki and W Love Games conferences next week
- Free physical booths remain at Showroom by W Love Games for Finnish Games Week in Helsinki.
- EGDF is launching webinars to help game devs explore new opportunities in third-party mobile app stores, starting with Epic Mobile Game Store on 9th October. They are also collecting data on how Apple and Google hinder market access for new stores and encourage all developers to participate.
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
💰 Funding
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
🇫🇮 Articles in Finnish
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Games Factory talents offers oppprtunities also for people looking for a job at Pocket Gamer Connects Careers Zone.
- Recruiter Opportunities:
- Publish your open roles online and onsite
- Connect with with talents onsite and online
- Candidate Opportunities:
- Explore job openings relevant to your skills
- Showcase your skills to the hiring companies
- Recruiter Opportunities:
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- 30th September; Meetup for Game Studio founders.
- 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
- 3rd October W Love Games Conference 2024
- October 1st Show & Tell Game Mixer (by HypeHype & Phantom Game Labs & Google)
- Oct 1st – Nov 5; Advanced AI Training for Content Creators (event in Finnish) / Oulu
- Octber 9th EGDF Webinar with Epic Games Store! 16:00 CET Fill out the form by October 2nd
- 30th October Games First Helsinki Registration is closed
- 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!
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland