Events:
- Pitch your indie game at the Big Indie Pitch Helsinki on 17 Nov
- Biggest IGDA Finland evening ever on 17 Nov in Helsinki. Sign up now!
- Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer on 18 Nov in Helsinki
- Slush Mobile Mixer on 18 Nov in Helsinki
Releases:
Announcements:
- Kunin – Ninja in training by DoDreams will be released for Google Play and Amazon AppStore on 13 Nov. See also the promo material.
Open jobs:
- PlayRaven is hiring
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Jari-Pekka Kaleva from Neogames writes about the new VAT rules (two months left!)
- Shark Punch donates 10% of their Masterplan’s November revenue for Movember
- Zombie Catchers received million downloads in just 5 days!
- Serious Gaming Cluster Finland brings developers together
- Best Fiends by Seriously was awarded as Best Mobile Service 2014 in the games category! Congrats!
- Traplight’s What on Earth! made an impression on Game Connection
- Yle Aamu/Tähtihetki has actively been reporting about video games, all aspects of it. This time about esports and youtubers.
- Neogames is now on Instagram, find us by the name neogamesfin
- FIGMA is now in social media, check out their Facebook and Twitter pages
- Ilari Kuittinen from Housemarque comments on the news about the biggest tax payers (in Finnish)
- Lue EHYT ry:n Pelitaito-projektin loppuraportti
- Consumer will deside the race for the number one console says a study (in Finnish)
This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish games 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 last week’s post here.