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
Nolla Games with their original indie game Noita was awarded as the Finnish Game of the Year 2020, and it also won Big Screen Game of the Year 2020 award.
Nominees of The Finnish Game Awards 2021 are announced! The Awards will take place on Nov 10th. Join the event online at 18.40 at YouTube https://youtu.be/nYvF_F8d4LU
Housemarque won the Best Game of the Year (and Best Visual Art) at Develop Stars awards for Returnal!