Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine this week’s happenings from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
We are vary grateful for all of those who helped us in organizing the Finnish Game Awards and those who attended and those who watched the live stream. Congrats once again to all the winners and we will soon have images from the event!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015
Events:
In this report we will combine this week’s happenings from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
We are vary grateful for all of those who helped us in organizing the Finnish Game Awards and those who attended and those who watched the live stream. Congrats once again to all the winners and we will soon have images from the event!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015
Events:
- Unity’s retro game themed Open House Event recruiting event on April 28 in Helsinki
Releases:
- Data Realms’ Planetoid Pioneers has been launched on Steam Early Access
- Armadillo Adventure: Draw & Roll by Tuiske Productions in now available at the App Store
- Aeonic Entertainment’ Action Legion is now released at Steam
- BitWeird introduces you to the wonderful life of a factory worker in their first released mobile game, Defected Product
- Mindfield Games released their first VR game P.O.L.L.E.N for PC. It’s yours to grab from Steam, Playfield and other digital stores
- Majasalmi Ltd’s Heavy Rockets cave shooter game is now available at the App Store
- Parta Games’ Choppa Acting against orders and the odds (Apps for earth) has been global launched for Rick Guyvers crazy helicopter rescue mission
- Jani Tolonen’s second published game, Ghost Run is available at Google Play
- Ice Lakes by Iceflake Studios is now out at Steam
Announcements:
- PlayRaven’s new Robocide Hades update brings a bunch of PvP maps, balances and super-hard levels
- Learning game studio Lightneer announces its first title game, a new casual learning game called Big Bang. It will be soft launch in the third quarter of 2016
- Koukoi Games released the teaser video for Crashing Season
- Team Jolly Roger’s Mushroom Crusher Extreme now has an IndieDB page and a demo. Take a look at their Greenlight page
- Kukouri’s Tiny Troopers 2 is now also launched on Android in China
- TropicalWars from Vertige & Tilting Point is now out at the App Store and Google Play
Open jobs:
- Meanfish is looking for a Senior Full-stack Developer and a Software Developer to join their team
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Sisu Game Ventures is an exclusive advisory and investment company that advises and has invested in several Finnish game companies
- Pocket Gamer: Armada Interactive raises $3 million to give core mobile gaming a hard push
- Veteran Finnish game developer Antti Kallioinen has passed away at the age of 42. His co-workers and colleagues at Housemarque want to offer their condolences to his family and friends
- If you are going to Taipei Game Developers forum and have been doing volunteering for Global Game Jam, apply this
- Tivi: Suomalainen peliosaaminen ilahduttaa
- Kajaanin ammattikorkeakoulu on hyväksytty saksalaisen pelimoottorivalmistajan VR First -ohjelmaan
- Kyselytutkimus videopeleistä ja virtuaalitodellisuudesta
- Supercell on vuoden markkinointijohtaja
This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish game industry. If you want to have your news on the list, post them on the Play Finland Facebook group. The summary will be posted every Friday afternoon. Check out last week’s list!