Arkisto: Weekly roundup

Weekly News 5/22

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.

Weekly News 4/22

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

Weekly News 3/22

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)

Weekly News 2/22

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.

Weekly News 50/21

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.

Weekly News 49/21

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!

Weekly News 48/21

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.

Weekly News 47/21

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!

Weekly News 46/21

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

Weekly News 45/21

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.