Events:
- Umbra and IGDA Finland will organize Umbra Ignite on Sept 1 in Helsinki.
- #GameONjkl seminar will be on Sept 3 in Jyväskylä
- Pocket Gamer Connects will be in Helsinki on 7-8 September. Check out everything you need to know about it!
- Neogames is organizing a trade mission to GDC China on 23-28.10.2015 DL for registrations is 19.8.
- Join the Nordics at Game Connection Europe in Paris, France on 28.-30.10.2015. DL for registrations is 4.9.
Releases:
- SIEIDI released Gunnheim on Steam Early Access. Check out a review.
- Parta Games released Go! Go! Meatball for iOS
- Rusto games released Drunk-Fu: Wasted Masters for iOS and Android
- Zorg Entertainment’s AG Drive is now -50%
Announcements:
- More awesome details about Quantum break were released at gamescom
- Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power by Frozenbyte will be released on 20th of August
- Check out the first gameplay trailer for Next Games’ The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land
- Xenocide by Confused Genius will be released on Steam on Aug 28
Open jobs:
- PlayRaven is hiring
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- The Masterplan by Shark Punch won the “Best Game Design” Indie Prize award at Casual Connect. Congrats!
- You can still support the game museum crowd-funding project at Mesenaatti. You can also help the project by planning a T-shirt.
- Elina Lappalainen wrote a book Pelien valtakunta about the Finnish game industry.
- You can know get even the newest games from the library (in Finnish). Read more here (in Finnish).
- Seriously released an infographic about Best Fiend’s first ten months.
- Seriously raises $18 million to build out its mobile-first entertainment strategy
- “What makes Finland successfull in games” on Finnish morning show (in Finnish)
- The report Tekes – 10 years of funding and networks for the Finnish game industry 2004-2014 is now on Neogames website
- Markus Mäki and Sami Järvi from Remedy share their wisdom on the program Tähtihetki (in Finnish)
This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish game industry. If you want to have your news on the list, post them to the Play Finland Facebook group. The summary will be posted every Friday afternoon. See the previous post here.