Housemarques Returnal is nominated in several categories at 2022 BAFTA Games Awards +Netflix Announced Plans to Acquire Next Games +Neogames Finland is updating the lists of games released in 2021 and active Finnish Game companies. Based on game list Finnish Game Awards nominees are voted.
EGDF Condemns Putin Regime’s War Against Ukraine And Asks The EU To Stand Up. Housemarque's Returnal won two prizes at DICE; Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition and Audio Design. Kitka Games is a new success story from Kajaani game development scene.
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
Bonus Stage Publishing preparing for their first Steam bundle. Remedy released Crossfire X single player campaign Operation Catalyst for Xbox. Bit1 competition starting.
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!