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This week’s news, we share highlights from the past few weeks across The Finnish Game Industry. Angry Birds Licensing is merging with SEGA’s global operations and introducing a new international agent network, and Nitro Games has secured a €1.6 million contract. Despite stormy weather and freezing winter conditions, Finnish game developers’ machines do not congeal: My Winter Car was released on Steam on 29 December, Potion8 revealed its debut title Goblin’s Die with an announcement trailer, Sledders received major updates, and Phantom Gamelabs shared insights on building co-op at the core. For students, the Bit1 student game competition returns this spring, with registration opening in January. When it comes to funding, two timely opportunities are opening next week: the Epic MegaGrants submission window on 12 January and Business Finland’s funding info session for R&D in the creative industries on 13 January.
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Big News
- Angry Birds Licensing Merges with SEGA’s Global Operations, Introduces New International Agent Network
- Nitro Games Lands €1.6M Contract
- My Winter Car released on Steam 29th December
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- Bit1 student game competition is happening again this spring & registration opens in January, closes in February
- Visionist released The January 2026 edition of the Good Game News from Finland newsletter.
- The Finnish Game Research Yearbook 2025 has been published (in Finnish).
- Hangover? Review about the Finnish Game Industry state in Helsingin Sanomat (Story in Finnish, paywall)
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- My Winter Car Earns Overwhelmingly Positive Steam Reviews Despite Use of AI-Generated Content & Blowing Up on Steam
- Building Co-op at the Core at Phantom Gamelabs
- Finnish indie studio Potion8 has officially revealed its debut title, Goblin’s Die and released announcement trailer. Wishlist on Steam
- Nitro Games appoints new COO (Antti Ruonala) and CPO (Milka Tarkiainen)
- Sledders Game got major updates (article in Finnish)
😍 NEW Finnish games released & soft launched
💰 Funding
- Epic MegaGrants submission window opens at January 12
- Business Finland organises Funding info session for R&D in the creative industries 2026 on 13th January. The event will be held in Finnish, subtitled in English and recorded.
- Supercell calls on companies to reach for potential partnerships on new website
🏫 Education
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Play Ventures Job Board
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- 13th January Business Finland: Funding info session for R&D in the creative industries.The event will be held in Finnish, subtitled in English and recorded.
- 19-20 January Pocket Gamer Connects London 2026
- Get the 20% discount with code GAMEDEVFI20
- 22nd January workshop about budgeting in Luova Eurooppa / MEDIA -application, especially regarding on filling application detailed budget table. (wokshop in Finnish)
- 14th March DevCon 6 Tampere 2026
- 26-29 May Nordic Game Conference
- 5th June Way Forward Forum / Oulu
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 from Weekly roundup section.
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