Weekly News 46
This week New Finnish Player Barometer 2020 and Kati Alha's brand new doctoral dissertation "The Rise of Free-to-Play: How the Revenue Model Changed Games and Playing" was released!
This week New Finnish Player Barometer 2020 and Kati Alha's brand new doctoral dissertation "The Rise of Free-to-Play: How the Revenue Model Changed Games and Playing" was released!
This week Secret Exit reached hundred million(!!!) downloads + Rovio released their Q3 report already last week, with great profits + Neogames is organizing Pitching Event for partnering with Korean investors and publishers.
This week (end of October) is the deadline for Finnish Cultural Foundation's funding application. Stirring Abyss was released on Steam and Kalla Gameworks is announcing new Kickstarter project on next week.
This week big news are Om Nom: Run by Koukoi Games reaching +17,5m downloads and Barotrauma is celebrating 🎂 their 5 years birthday. FakeFish made a short retrospective video to celebrate and say thank you to their players
This week big news are: Pelimetsä project, that has already preserved over 130 hectares of Finnish forest and invites now more Finnish game companies to become long-term supporters + Habbo Hotel celebrates it's 20th anniversary + Johanna Verhiö got rewarded for Girls Act of the Year (Vuoden tyttöteko)
This week big news is Dreamloop Games partnering up with Feardemic and Unfold Games to bring DARQ to new platforms.
This week we have several very interesting positions open at Finnish Game Industry
This week big news are Futureplay Games releasing Merge Gardens on iOS and Android Neogames Finland released a study regarding the employment situation of students graduated from Finnish Game Education. The study is written in Finnish but there is a English abstract.
This week big news is Metacore (formely Everywear Games) raising $17.6 million (+$11.8 million line of credit) 💰 from Supercell and launches Merge Mansion mobile game. Congratulations! 🥳 Playsome released (in Finland) their first title Friends & Dragons. Thank you 🙏 @PGConnects Helsinki <3
Autumn is starting busy with lots of event at Finnish Game Industry, although many of them are online events. Next week will be Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki!