Weekly News 35/21
New game releases from Redhill Games - Nine to Five on Steam early access - and Brakesoft - Swift: Galaxy Trails. Reworks acquired by Playtika. Quicksave Interactive on the first batch of Zoom Apps Fund Investments.
New game releases from Redhill Games - Nine to Five on Steam early access - and Brakesoft - Swift: Galaxy Trails. Reworks acquired by Playtika. Quicksave Interactive on the first batch of Zoom Apps Fund Investments.
Finland is the third-largest games industry hotspot in the EU in terms of industry revenue! GamePro program is here again. DL to apply 13th Sept. + Supercells' new game Everdale is at beta!
Apply to Finnish Developers Showcase by 26th Aug. Clash Royale has accumulated $42,5million from player spending on June 2021 + Metacore's Merge Mansion closes in on $40 million revenue + Remedy has published its financial results for the first half of 2021; a slight 3.3% increase in revenue to reach €17.5 million
Top 10 highest-grossing mobile games of all time: Number 3 - Clash of Clans with $7.7 billion revenue
Koukoi Games has been acquired by SciPlay! +Neogames Finland has released policy paper for local decision makers. + Tencent acquired (in May) 3.8% stake in Remedy
Koukoi Games has been acquired by SciPlay! +Neogames Finland has released policy paper for local decision makers. + Tencent acquired (in May) 3.8% stake in Remedy
Sony Buys Returnal Developer Housemarque! +Boom Corp. raises $1.8M to make social games + Jaakko Kylmäoja is the new permanent CEO of Fingersoft + Remedy signs an agreement with 505 Games to co-publish and develop a multiplayer spin-off game of Control +Rovio gains exclusive rights for Moomin mobile games + Next Games is launching the second round of "Game Developer Academy"
This week has been quiet. It is the last week before midsummer (Juhannus 🌼🌞🔥) and Finnish Game Developers are rushing ⏱ to get 🛠 world 🌍 ready before that.
Neogames has published brand new Finnish Game Industry report! The full report can be found at www.playfinland.fi
Quicksave Interactive has raised $1.3M for HTML5 social games!