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This week’s news from the Finnish Game Industry focuses particularly on students and juniors. However, support is also needed from industry professionals. The Game Badges project is seeking expert insights from QA specialists, marketing specialists, community managers, producers, and business specialists to help certify valuable industry skills. The Finnish Game Studies Thesis Competition 2025 offers students an opportunity to gain recognition for their work. The submission period is open until the end of March. Since there is always more to learn, a reminder that Games Now! lectures by Aalto University have started again and are available online.
Stay updated on what’s happening in the Finnish game industry by following the PlayFinland Facebook group, and help us stay informed by posting your Finnish game industry news there!
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📣Neogames News
- Neogames Finland ry is a part of Gamebadges project that is looking for more expert insights especially from QA specialists, Marketing specialists and Community managers, and Producers and Business specialists (including Studio managers, project managers etc.)
- Jari-Pekka Kaleva gave his insights about current Omnibus discussion at Sustainable Games Alliance‘s webinar EU Omnibus Briefing: Changes to European sustainability disclosure regulations.
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
😍 NEW Finnish games released
- Tiny Dangerous Dungeons by Adventure Islands is now out on Steam and mobile for Apple & Android
- Savukivi Entertainment released Finnish Cottage 8 on Steam!
💰 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
- 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