This week Supercell, Rovio, Next Games and Remedy released their financials. Suomen Pelinkehittäjät is looking for applied games to submit their projects for Finnish Game Awards. Neogames is updating the list of games released on 2020 by Finnish Game developers.
It's been week of milestones in the Finnish Game Industry - Heavyweight Rex hitting about 2M dollars as cumulative lifetime total in funding, Koukoi Games reaching 25M downloads with less than a year old Om Nom: Run and Redhill Games closing a funding deal with Netease.
This week Game Studies Thesis Competition 2021 opens and Outi Laiti has her defense about the potential of game development events to empower the cultural self-expression of Sámi people. In addition Joakim Achrén joins Play Ventures and Hatch is not shutting down!
Neogames is conducting data to next report with inquiry. This week Azerion acqured fully Habbo Hotel developer Sulake. Neogames is reminding that The application period for January round of Finnish Cultural Foundation's Regional Funds is on.
Incredible week at Finnish Games Industry; • Amazon acquired Finnish software company • Critical Force raised over 8 million EUR investment • Savage Game Studios has raised $4.4 million to create two mobile game studios in Helsinki and Berlin. • The Finnish Museum of Games celebrates its 4th birthday on this weekend! • Ohayoo opens contest for hyper-casual to casual games.
Playsome released Friends & Dragons on iOS already last week. This week Koukoi Games and Fingersoft opened several interesting positions. Check those and all the news from our site. Enjoy the winter & weekend!
Rovio has named Alexandre Pelletier-Normand as its new CEO and Peliosuuskunta Expa the IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub turned 8 years old on Dec 2020.
This week Nitro Games announced that they have secured a global exclusive license for Nerf by Hasbro to develop a mobile action game based on Nerf blasters.
This week Remedy Entertainment confirms that its 2019 action-adventure title Control, has now reached a new impressive sales milestone. Is also good to know that guidelines on ranking transparency in European platform regulation has been published.
This week Yousician got the Digi app of the year reward in Finland and several new cool Finnish games were released.