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While some of the folks in Finland have been enjoying their winter holidays this week, the Finnish Games Industry shows no signs of rest, with big news continuing to roll in. Sam Lake is set to receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards 2025, honoring his outstanding contributions (huge congratulations!), while Nitro Games delights by reporting a record-breaking $12.3 million revenue for 2024. As a wind of change, Fingersoft’s COO Ville Rauma has announced his departure from the company. Wishing enjoyable winter holidays to those who are starting theirs!
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💡Big News
- Sam Lake will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award at Game Developers Choice Awards 2025
- Fingersoft COO, Ville Rauma exits company
- Nitro Games reports record $12.3m revenue in 2024
📣Neogames News
- A delegation from the Finnish Game Industry; Jari-Pekka Kaleva on the mission of Suomen Pelinkehittäjät ry and Neogames Finland ry, Janne Salminen (Metacore) and Mikko Kirmanen (Fingersoft) met EU policy makers this week in Brussels.
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- Suomen Pelinkehittäjät ry supports for local game industry events in 2025. If you have (or if you know) a local game industry event looking for support, feel free to contact: koopee@neogames.fi
- Indie Games Glam With Nat; EP 2 – Think Twice Before Becoming a CEO
- Tampere Game Hub /Finnish Game Incubator DEMO DAY 2025 introduced 7 exciting new games
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
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Kuuasema reveals Cthulhu Keeper in Steam wishlist.
- Clash Royale’s Barbarian has teamed up with Michael Bolton.
- Gloomsoft is creating its debut game, Moadra, with an estimated release in 2025
😍 NEW Finnish games released:
💰 Funding
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Play Ventures Job Board
- 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
🏫Education
- An online course on writing game stories will begin at the Tampere Regional Adult Education Centre starting on March 5. (Course is in Finnish)
👉 Upcoming Events
- 27th February Duunitori event; an opportunity for game studios to meet fresh student talent
- 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!
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland