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This week big news about the Finnish Game Industry are; Paramount Pictures is flying the Angry Birds back into cinemas – The Angry Birds Movie 3 is set for global release in January 2027. Metacore’s Merge Mansion’s grandmother truly keep collecting coins – the game has now crossed 60 million downloads and $600 million in lifetime revenue. And just in time for Finland’s annual spring snowstorm (takatalvi), FakeFish has announced a new partnership with Shiro Games for the survival crafting title Frostrail.
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💡 Highlights
- Paramount Pictures releases The Angry Birds Movie 3 in movie theathers world wide on Jan. 2027
- Merge Mansion has reached 60 million downloads and $600 million in lifetime revenue.
- Shiro Games and dev FakeFish partner on wintery world of Frostrail
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- Taru AI has developed an AI tool to predict player behavior before game content is released. They are now seeking mobile game developers as pilot customers.
- Legendary Finnish magazine focused on video games, Pelaaja, is shutting down. (Article in Finnish)
- Team Scavenger wins the Bit1 competition
- Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2025 tickets are already available
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Team that participated in LeveLappi project have started a company: CozyNest. Check it out, looks good
- Why Supercell wants to invest in games companies
- The Willow Guard is part of The Weirdest Indie Platformer of 2025 by Best Indie Games
- Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon by Cornfox Studios is set to release on Steam, iOS and Android in Q2 2025
- Return Entertainment launches Rivals Arena smart TV trivia game on Amazon Fire TV in UK
😍 NEW Finnish games released
💰 Funding
- Supercell calls on companies to reach for potential partnerships on new website
- 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
- Espoo Game LAB – game development programme opens new application period 4-16.4.2025.
- Metacore starts trainee program, Press Play again. The application period is open from April 7 to April 27.
- 24th April Games Job Fair Spring 2025: Bridging Talent and Opportunity in Finland’s Gaming Industry
- 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
- Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (KAMK) has announced for the additional application 2025 for GAME education in:
- Bachelor’s degrees· Business Information Technology, Game Development, full-time
- Master’s degrees· Game Business Management, part-time, remote· Game Business Management (Engineering), part-time, remote
- 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
- 11th April; Tampere Game Hub’s LEADERBOARD – Tackling Leadership in Finnish Game Development, in Tampere
- 11th April Future/s Possible
- 14th April IGDA Turku April Meetup with Reaktor
- 24th April Games Job Fair Spring 2025: Bridging Talent and Opportunity in Finland’s Gaming Industry
- 6th May Over 7 Hills – an IT and games industries conference in Turku, Finland
- 20th May the Nordic Game Executive Summit
- 20th-23rd May Nordic Game 2025 Conference/ExpoSummits/Awards/Showcase
- 13-15th June Jam Jam 2025 / Sappee
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6th October; IGDA Finland Leadership Day
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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