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This week the Finnish game industry has been at GDC, but there’s a lot game updates too: Supercell launched mo.co, Bugbear’s Wreckfest 2 launched on Early Access, so is Hanki Games’ Sledders, Remedy showcased their upcoming FBC: Firebreak, Kuuasema’s Cthulhu Keeper on play test, and more.
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💡Big News
- Supercell’s next big adventure begins with mo.co launch
- Remedy Entertainment’s Creative Director Sam Lake received GDCA Lifetime Achievement Award.
📣Neogames News
- Neogames Finland ry has summarized the key goals of the Finnish game industry for the upcoming municipal elections. The document can be downloaded as a PDF from here.
- KooPee Hiltunen participated in City of Helsinki’s event where Helsinki’s strategy to develop creative industries was published.
- Suvi Latva presented Neogames Finland ry this week in Game Developers Conference & Pocket Gamer Connects at San Francisco and spoke in a roundtable discussion on “The Reality of Investment in 2025” at PGC and a panel discussion on “Thriving in a Stagnating Industry – Collaboration as the Key” at the Nordic Breakfast.
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Remedy Entertainment showcased their upcoming game FBC: Firebreak – game will be launched on PC, Xbox Series and PS5 this summer. For Finnish reading, check Ilta-Sanomat, V2, and Helsingin Sanomat also.
- Quicksave takes 1st place at SXSW with their GSApp
- Kuuasema’s Cthulhu Keeper playtests are now open
- MiTale’s Willow Guard has official gameplay trailer out
- Korpi Games announced new game – Bow Course – multiplayer archery golf VR game. Wishlist on Meta and Steam.
- Remedy Entertainment’s Creative Director Sam Lake received GDCA Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Housemarque’s Ilari Kuittinen talking about the impact of Sony’s back up for their upcoming game Saros (original article at Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish)
😍 NEW Finnish games released
- Supercell’s mo.co is launched
- Bugbear Entertainment’s Wreckfest 2 on Early Access
- Hanki Games’ Sledders is launched on Early Access to PS5, Xbox Series and PC. Game is published by Bonus Stage.
💰 Funding
- Creative Europe MEDIA programme’s Skills and Talent Development call. DEADLINE for applications is 24.4.2025 at 17.00 Brussels time.
- 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
- 25th March; Jyväskylä PreBit and IGDA Jyväskylä Hub Meetup, in Jyväskylä
- 11th April; Tampere Game Hub’s LEADERBOARD – Tackling Leadership in Finnish Game Development, in Tampere
- 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