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The Finnish Game Industry demonstrates its diversity in game development across multiple platforms and developer scales. Indie talent is showing strong presence, with End-all Entertainment—recipient of last year’s IGDA Finland grant—releasing a demo of Paradigm Island, and Finnish developers accounting for nearly 10% of participants and games at Global Game Jam 2025. At the same time, industry giants remain solid: Supercell reports rising Hay Day user engagement through “growth virality” after 12 years, and Metacore solidifies its position as the leading benchmark for casual and Merge2 games. Speaking of different platforms, Ridge Racer 64 arrives on Nintendo Switch Online. Alan Wake 2 becoming the first game to support Mega Geometry Technology is clear evidence of Finland’s strong technological foundation.
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📣Neogames News
- Neogames has begun the Finnish Game Industry 2024 study, continuing the biannual research series published since 2005.
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- We in Games Finland co-organizes International Women’s Day event with Next Games on 7th March
- Natasha Skult Indie Games Glam With Nat; Why to become an Indie Game Dev?
- Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2025 offers special discount code: PlayFinlandSF20
- Gamebadges project is identifying the most important competences for game industry professions. Check seven short polls covering different areas.
- Global Game Jam 2025 sees almost 10% of its participants and games coming from Finland.
- bit1 (students game development) competition time has extended to February 23, 2025, at 23:59
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- End-all Entertainment received the first ever IGDA Finland Grant for their game Paradigm Island, and the demo is available on Steam NOW!
- Metacore’s plans to continue to be the number one benchmark for casual and Merge2 games.
- Alan Wake 2 has become the first game to support Mega Geometry Technology
- Supercell reveals rise in Hay Day active users with “growth virality” 12 years on
- Pax Dei is now officially available on GeForce Now and the Epic Game Store!
- Ridge Racer 64 slides onto Nintendo Switch Online
💰 Funding
- Business Finland announces R&D funding for boosting business in the creative industries.
- Creative Europe’s funding call for video games is open – application deadline on Feb 12, 2025.
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Rovio offers now opportunities for job seekers to sign up for job alerts.
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- 11th February IGDA Helsinki February Meetup
- 12th February: Game Design Case: How Valheim gets you hooked (online event)
- 7th March We in Games Finland co-organizes International Women’s Day event with Next Games
- 17 – 18 March Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2025 – special discount code: PlayFinlandSF20
- 17-18 March The Game Developers Conference (GDC) – San Francisco
- 6th May Over 7 Hills – an IT and games industries conference in Turku, Finland
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6th October; IGDA Finland Leadership Day
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7-8th October; Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki
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9-10th October; W Love Games Conference
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)
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