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This week’s biggest news is the winners of the Finnish Game of the Year 2024 award on Finnish Game Awards. Congratulations to Mainframe Industries and their game Pax Dei! You can see all the winners in this weekly roundup, under Highlights.
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💡 Highlights
- The Finnish Game Awards 2025, took place on Tuesday 13th of May – and the winner are:
- Finnish Game of the Year 2024: Pax Dei (Mainframe Industries)
- 2nd place: Supermoves (Makea Games)
- 3rd place: LEGO Hill Climb Adventures (Fingersoft), Finnish Cottage Simulator (Ranela Games) and Squad Busters (Supercell)
- Best Creative Achievement of the Year 2024: Pools (Tensori)
- Power Player of the Year 2024: Ilkka Paananen
- Rookie of the Year 2024: Hanki Games
- Finnish Game Jam – Jampion of the Year 2024: Ali İrdiren
- Bit1 Student Game Competition 2025: Spaceship Scavenger (Team Scavenger)
- IGDA Finland Volunteer of the Year 2024: Daria Bokovaya
- IGDA Finland Lifetime Achievement 2025: Christopher Hamilton
- W Love Games Excellence Award 2024: Finnish Cottage Simulator (Ranela Games)
- Finnish Game of the Year 2024: Pax Dei (Mainframe Industries)
📣Neogames News
- This week the Neogames’ team has been busy with the Finnish Game Awards 2025. Next week we will be at Nordic Game Conference in Malmo.
- Gamebadges project has released the Game Industry Competence Map! Neogames is part of the Gamebadges project.
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- We in Games has created Event Accessibility Guidelines.
- GN! Exhibition 2024 showcases seven games from the Games Now! game jams 2024-25 – themes “Space & View”. Exhibition is open until May 23rd, 2025 in Kumma Gallery.
- The search for members of the Peliosuuskunta Expa board for the next two years has begun! Applications accepted until May 30, 2025.
- Digi&Game Center podcast episode – Tools of employment in the game industry
- Shah Ad is looking for insights for the bachelor’s thesis about monetization strategies for AI-driven, ever-changing single-player games.
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Seven Stars secures a seed round to build next gen puzzle games.
- Kick Motion showcases 3D art work they have created for Star Heroes.
- Channel 37’s debut game The Last Caretaker previewed in PAX East 2025.
😍 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
- 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
- 13-23rd May GN! Exhibition 2025 “Space & View” at Kumma Gallery.
- 20th May the Nordic Game Executive Summit
- 20th-23rd May Nordic Game 2025 Conference/ExpoSummits/Awards/Showcase
- 20th May UTU Seminar: Is digital gaming a counterforce for physical activity? – register here
- 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 from Weekly roundup section.
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