TagsWeekly News,
This week we’re combining news from two weeks, and we’re already getting very excited about the Finnish Game Awards coming up next Tuesday, 13 May. Finnish Cottage Simulator is clearly having its moment in the sunshine – nominated both at the Finnish Game Awards and as Nordic Game of the Year. Q2 seems to be filling up with events, and Finnish Games Week in October is already looming on the horizon. New Finnish games keep popping: Stratogun by Horsefly Games is out on PC and consoles, Kaamos by Pepperbox Studios is live on Steam, and Remedy will release FBC: Firebreak globally on 17 June. Money is good fuel for the game development, regarding to that IGDA Finland Grant is open – not huge, but a good start for indies.
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💡 Highlights
- The Finnish Game Awards 2025, organized by Suomen Pelinkehittäjät ry and Neogames Finland ry. will be on next Tue 13th May. It is sponsored by; Housemarque (Platinum sponsor), Small Giant Games (Gold sponsor) and (Silver sponsors) 10tons, Colossal Order, Fingersoft, Kuuasema, Metacore Games, Metaplay, Next Games – A Netflix Game Studio, Supercell, and Ubisoft RedLynx.
- Finnish Cottage Simulator by Ranela Games is also nominated for the Nordic Game of The year
📣Neogames News
- Suvi Kiviniemi represented Neogames Finland ry at gamescom latam on 29th April and 3rd May
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- JamJam 2025 Talks and Workshops announced
- Better Games Together – a collective consisting of Finnish game companies Metacore, Next Games, Rovio, Supercell, and the non-profit We in Games, is taking part to Helsinki Pride Month in June 2025, and to the Pride March on June 28
- OP Financial Group joins Supercell to back tuition-free coding school Hive Helsinki
- IGDA Finland Grant is available, apply by 1.5.2025
- Tickets for the annual hybrid conference – W Love Games are available now! W Love Games is also the Lead organizer of The Finnish Games Week
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Metaplay makes game backend tech accessible with new free plan for Unity developers
- Remedy will launch FBC: Firebreak on PC and consoles worldwide on June 17
- Housemarque challenges players with their difficult games (article in Finnish)
- Sledders, developed by Hanki Games and released by Bonus Stage, was chosen as one of the 6 indies in the ID@ Xbox Indie Select
- Fingersoft organizes Way Forward Forum 2025, an executive games industry event in Oulu, Finland, on the 6th of June.
😍 NEW Finnish games released
- Stratogun, by Horsefly Games is out now for PC & consoles!
- Kaamos, by Pepperbox Studios is released on Steam
💰 Funding
- IGDA Finland Grant is available, apply by 1.5.2025
- 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
- Career camp, online event to work in the digital entertainment industry. MAY 13 — 16, 2025
- 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
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Application time for “Kesäpeliopintoihin” and !Pelibisnesopintoihin” (both in Finnish) is open.
- Expa Game Business Cooperative’s Education platform. Learn to use Unreal Engine in the courses offered by Digi & Game Center
👉 Upcoming Events
- 13th May Finnish Game Awards The award ceremony will be streamed live online from 7PM to 8:30PM.
- 16th May GAMEHack – Game Industry Ecosystem 2.0
- 17th May Pelidemopiste event shows games developed by the students of the university of Jyväskylä
- 20th May the Nordic Game Executive Summit
- 20th-23rd May Nordic Game 2025 Conference/ExpoSummits/Awards/Showcase
- 6th June Way Forward Forum 2025, an executive games industry event in Oulu, Finland, organized by Fingersoft
- 10th June Next Games Breakfast and Talk event with Laura Smith
- 13-15th June Jam Jam 2025 / Sappee
- 6th-10th October Finnish Games Week 2025.
- 18th-19th October Kuopio Pelaa -pelikulttuuritapahtuma.
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