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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 roundup 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
💎 Highlights:
- Sega announced Sonic Rumble, a 32-player PvP mobile game created with Finnish studio Rovio.
- ODDLI is the Best Finnish Student Game of 2024! #bit1
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Redhill has kicked off a new collaboration with Mainframe Industries on the #PaxDei project!
- Finnish Game Awards is organized on May 16th
- Bookmark the live stream: https://youtube.com/live/-Qw7h_lGtRkf
- The nominees for Finnish Game of the Year 2023 are:
- 1939 Games: KARDS
- Colossal Order: Cities: Skylines II
- Dreamloop Games: Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue
- Frozenbyte: Trine 5: Clockwork Conspiracy
- Kyy Games: Knights of Pen and Paper 3
- Nitro Games: Autogun Heroes
- One Trick Entertainment: Lempo
- Please Be Patient: Finnish Army Simulator
- Remedy Entertainment: Alan Wake 2
- Resistance Games: Great Houses of Calderia
Neogames News
-
Neogames Finland Suvi Latva participated this week to The 7th CIIE Promotion Event at Helsinki. Thanks for the invite Mikael Leinonen and Charles Chiang from MyGamez Ltd.
Finnish Game Industry News
- If you are looking for playtesters for your game, maybe you are interested in joining OneJoyFulDay
- Seasoned game industry expert Petri Nordlund has recently been working on a game on their own to test a casual game that mixes RTS and tower defense elements. Petri is pretty happy with the results, so far everything seems to work as planned! The graphics are from the Unity Asset Store. Ping Petri if you want to know more.
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- ‘If Roblox and TikTok had a baby’: Supercell-backed HypeHype edges closer to launch
- Return Entertainment, a Finland-based developer of cloud-native technology and games, is announcing the launch of their smart TV gaming platform and debut game, Rivals Arena, exclusively on Samsung TVs in the United States.
- Codename Kestrel cancelled as Remedy focuses on existing franchises.
- Touches the whole mobile game industry; Metacore CEO Mika Tammenkoski says recent litigation against Google and Apple shows the mobile market is in need of a revolution.
😍 NEW Finnish games released:
- Great Houses of Calderia by Resistance Games is released on Steam
🇫🇮 Articles in Finnish
💰 Funding
- IGDA Finland Grant accepts applications, submit yours by May 31st.
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Finnish game developer/entrepeneur, James Cramer asks; What are the chances that there is a freelance / junior level designer in this group available for a short gig?
- Huuuge Games is looking for senior 3D artist
- Check the best tips to enhance your portfolio by Redhill
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
Upcoming Events
- 16th May Finnish Game Awards. The live stream: https://youtube.com/live/-Qw7h_lGtRkf
- 21-24th May Nordic Game Conference @ Malmö, Sweden
- 30th May – 2nd June; CROSSING LATITUDES 2024 /Brazil – Finland Game Jam. W Love Games and Finnish Game Jam associations in collaboration with Embassy of Brazil in Helsinki are organizing
- 4th June; Game Studies day / Turku
- 30th September IGDA Finland Leadership Day 2024
- 3th October W Love Games Conference 2024
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz