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.
This week news are; Critical Force's excellent performance has been recognized with several achievements; The strongest in Finland 2020, Achievers 2020 and Growth Company of year 2020! Mr Autofire, is turning one!
This week news are; Jose Saarniniemi raises to new CEO of Small Giant + Apple will cut App Store commissions by half to 15% for small app makers + New game industry doctorate of this week; Heikki Tyni from Tampere Game Research Lab successfully defended his dissertation: Games Crowdfunding as a Form of Platformised Cultural Production.