Supercell's revenue for 2021 was at €1.89 billion. + Rovio 2021 revenues increase 5.1% to $326.6 million, boosted by Angry Birds titles. + Remedy earned €44.7 million in revenue for the full year of 2021 (up 8.9 percent from the same period last year), and had an operating profit of €14.7 million. That's an 11 percent rise from the prior year. + Return Entertainment Cloud native gaming available to all closed 5.3 million euros funding
Rovio has partnered with Popeye and non-profit The SeaCleaners to promote awareness about cleaning plastics out of the ocean + Game Studies Thesis Competition 2022 is here again.
Bran new start-up, Social First (by Kim Soares and Mikko Kähärä) raised 2,5 million USD pre-seed from Play Ventures and Joakim Achrén's syndicate
Supremacy Games announces Apex Kings NFT Racing. Real cars, real brands, real value + Yahaha Studios, raises $50million! + Sulake announced the completion of the first stage in evolving the Habbo metaverse by bringing it to Web 3.0 + Microsoft to acquires Activision Blizzard. (Not really about Finnish Game Industry, but remarkable news from game industry)
Dodreams invests $1.4 million to merge games with online videos + Take-Two to acquire mobile gaming giant Zynga for $12.7B + Remedy Entertainment signs a global development, license and distribution agreement with Tencent for the co-operative multiplayer game codenamed Vanguard.
Next Games Corp.: Next Games Signs up to 16.5 Million USD Co-Development Agreement on a Mobile Game + Resistance Games announced their new game Great Houses of Calderia, that will be published by a Franco-Swedish publisher Firesquid + New Yorker lists Returnal by Housemarque among the best video games of 2021.
Returnal won title for the Best Action Game of 2021 at The Game Awards! + Remedy Entertainment announced that they are working on Alan Wake 2. + Tampere Game Hub announced collaboration with Microsoft!
Play Ventures revealed its new fund for blockchain gaming investments + Mainframe announced a €17.3 million new funding round! + Supremacy Games releases the first NFT game coming from Finland - Race Team Rivals NFT Garage.
Housemarque won Breaktrough Award at Golden Joysticks! + Icelandic games studio 1939 Games is opening of a new development unit in Helsinki + Living Game Intelligence Network has secured a round of funding with the City of Helsinki, for nearly three years!
HypeHype, formerly known as Frogmind, has launched a mobile app to enable everyone to create, remix, and play games with their smartphones + Rovio pledges to be carbon neutral by 2022 + Remedy is officially expanding to Sweden in 2022 by opening a Swedish subsidiary