Return Entertainment and Samsung elevate smart TV gaming with “Rivals Arena” partnership + Tencent raises its stake in Remedy to 14%. The LEGO Group welcomes Ilkka Paananen to its Board of Directors + Finnish Game Awards is organized on May 16th
Supercells is releasing a new game Squad Busters globally on May 29th Alan Wake 2 scoops up prizes at Bafta Games Awards Finnish Game Awards is organized on May 16t + Nominees are announced
Big game industry players like Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft must now comply with the Digital Markets Act in the EU. Neogames advocates for Finnish game developers and urges those facing challenges in these situations to share with us. Neogames will work with the European Games Developer Federation and bring these issues to the European Commission.
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Neogames is listing commercial games released globally in 2023 by Finnish Game developers. Based on game list Finnish Game Awards nominees are voted. Remedy acquires full rights to the Control franchise from 505 Games IGDA Finland Grant is coming! Full details will come out on www.igda.fi/grant in the beginning of March. + Neogames Finland joins The Finnish Startup Community, the representative associations Technical Industries of Finland and Suomen Ekonomit (“Economists of Finland”) as well as the City of Helsinki to suggest measures for streamlining and improving the labour migration process. The publication is available in Finnish. Autogun Heroes, by Nitro Games has won the best mobile game tittle on the Game Development World Champinonship.
Nitro Games has signed a Publishing agreement for Autogun Heroes with publishing solution Supersonic from Unity. +Alan Wake 2 was honored with the award for Art Direction by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences at the #DICEAwards!
Empires Not Vampires are thrilled to announce collaboration with The Sandbox Game
EGDF expresses its' disappointment in Apple’s new install fee structure for game developers aiming to launch games and collect payments via third-party marketplaces and payment systems in iOS. Read the full statement Red Stage Entertainment got into a big list of Xbox Indie teams
City of Kajaani is funding Game City Kajaani EUR 0.5million. +Metaplay launches Unity-based SDK to scale mobile games Business Finland has invested EUR 2.8 million to Kymeenlaakso + Nitro Games from Kotka got the major share; EUR 1.5 million.
Lots of new Finnish Games released and several game industry events ahead.