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This week, the Finnish game industry is absolutely bursting with news: Chanel 37 has released the trailer for The Last Caretaker, and Seven Stars has secured funding from Spintop Ventures, Behold Ventures, and Sisu Game Ventures. An absolute must: check out (and play!) the demos and games by Finnish game developers at Steam Next Fest – but hurry, the event ends on March 3rd! Worth to note is also that EIT Culture & Creativity is launching its three first calls of funding on 2025 and games are included also.
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💡Big News
- The Last Caretaker, developed and published by the Channel37 – Announcement Trailer is revealed
- Seven Stars has secured seed funding co-led by Spintop Ventures and Behold Ventures with Sisu Game Ventures
📣Neogames News
- Neogames Finland ry,’s KooPee participated in a panel led by the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Creative Economy Advisory Board, a joint project by the Ministry of Education & Culture and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (Finland)
- Neogames Finland ry represent and support The Finnish Game Industry across the country. Every region plays an important role in the industry’s success, and we value the work being done throughout Finland.
This week Jari-Pekka Kaleva was in Oulu and Kajaani
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- Free CDG Booster Accelerator, for Finnish companies in the XR, VR, AR, metaverse, gametech space
- The VOD for the Finnish Game Incubator Demo Day 2025 is now available!
- Releasing the City builder Cities: Skylines expansion DLC Green Cities. Sustainable Games Alliance hosted a session with Samantha Woods, the Community and Social Media Manager at Colossal Order Ltd.
- Kajaani Game Catalyst launched with 5 teams
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
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Kuuasema reveals Cthulhu Keeper in Steam wishlist, already on last week
- Steam Next Fest (Feb. 24 – Mar. 3rd) demos & Games by Finnish Game Developers:
- Kaamos by Pepperbox Studios is featured
- Liekki has a playable demo
- Ritual Party by Hologram Monster has a demo available
- Kiko’s Apple Adventure, PawPaw
- Mauri Mursu’s Odyssey by Nervant
- Moadra by Gloomsoft
- HELI 100 by Tree Men Games
- Last Drop by Lohkare Games
- Stratogun by Horsefly Games
- Versebound by Conifer Digital
- Tiny Dangerous Dungeons Remake by Adventure Islands
- Punch A Plant! by Neatly Production
- Play With Your Cat! – A Virtual Toy Box by Herra Koira Company
- Shadows of Betrayal by JayzonBH
- Art you can be a part of: Designers discuss Finnish video game Alan Wake and the evolution of games
- Mitale’s Launch of Willow Guard at Steam and Itch.io is getting closer
💰 Funding
- EIT Culture & Creativity is launching its three first calls of funding on 2025! If you’re working in games have a look.
- Business Finland: R&D funding for boosting business in the creative industries.
- Meta launches $50 million Creator Fund as it shifts focus to mobile content
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Play Ventures Job Board
- Rovio offers now opportunities for job seekers to sign up for job alerts.
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
🏫Education
- Learn to use Unreal Engine in the courses offered by Digi & Game Center
- An online course on writing game stories will begin at the Tampere Regional Adult Education Centre starting on March 5. (Course is in Finnish)
👉 Upcoming Events
- 4th March SGA & EGDF – EU Omnibus Briefing: Changes to European sustainability disclosure regulations
- 7th March We in Games Finland co-organizes International Women’s Day event with Next Games
- 17 – 18 March Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2025 – special discount code: PlayFinlandSF20
- 17-18 March The Game Developers Conference (GDC) – San Francisco
- 6th May Over 7 Hills – an IT and games industries conference in Turku, Finland
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6th October; IGDA Finland Leadership Day
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7-8th October; Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki
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9-10th October; W Love Games Conference
See also following calendars:
The Game Industry Events calendar (mostly relevant for Finnish Game industry)
Game Conference Guide Calendar (more international (powered by EGDF and Slovakian games association)
Game Industry Biz
This week’s roundup highlights news from the past week in the Finnish Game Industry. In the future, this bulletin is again posted every Friday afternoon. You can find past weekly roundups here.
News are gathered from various industry sources and the Play Finland group posts during the week. Post your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group to get a chance to be included in the weekly roundup!
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland