Events:
- Finnish Game Awards are just around the corner and the nominees are released – tune in for the live stream on April 21st!
- Brendon Neuwerth from Nitro Games will be speaking in Jyväskylä on April 21st
- Last days to register for Games First in Helsinki May 12th. Registrations end April 20th
- The Super Sound of Videogames 2 will be in Tampere on September 4th
Announcements:
- Everywear Games announced Runeblade, its first Apple Watch exclusive game and got quite a coverage
- Frozenbyte’s Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power will be on Steam Early Access on April 21st. Check out the trailer!
- My Summer Car is coming, read more here (in Finnish) or check out its (crazy) website
- Check out State of Matter early gameplay trailer
Open jobs:
- PlayRaven is hiring
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- J-P from Neogames contemplating some of the political and regulation related issues which can affect to the game development in the whole EU-area.
- Colossal Order’s Cities: Skylines hit million downloads (in Finnish)
- Joint Call between Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces (China) and Tekes Green Growth Programme (Finland) for Industrial R&D. There is going to be an matchmaking event also.
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 last week’s post here.