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This week, latest news from Finnish Game Industry covers announce of Angry Birds 3 movie production, Supercell’s great success with Squad Busters, Metacore being appointed to fastest growing technology company at Finland and several super cool new Finnish game releases are coming!
💎Highlights
- Rovio, SEGA, and Prime Focus Studios Announce The Angry Birds Movie 3 Is In Production At DNEG Animation
- Supercell’s Squad Busters generated $1.1m and picked up 8.8 million downloads on launch day
- Metacore is fastest growing technology company in Finland at Technology Fast 500 list
- Mainframe Industries has announced that its Unreal Engine 5-powered social sandbox MMO game, Pax Dei, will hit Steam Early Access on June 18th.
- Makea Games’ Supermoves comes out to Steam PC on August 28th 2024!
📣Neogames News
📰 Finnish Game Industry News
- Inferni: Hope & Fear, created by Finnish Village Studio will be released at Steam on 1st July
- IGDA Finland has several summer meetups around Finland
- Including non-Finnish-speaking researchers in the activities of the Finnish Society for Game Research – Working to increase the inclusivity of the Finnish Society for Game Research.
- INDIE VILLAGE is coming to Assembly Computer Festival this summer. W Love Games has announced a new partnership with Assembly and creating dedicated space for indie game developers to showcase their work and engage with their fans! If you are interested, fill in the following form
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Next Games shared a little blog about the different things they do year-round to support the LGBTQIA+ community. A big shoutout to the other Better Games Together companies (Supercell, Metacore, Rovio, and We in Games Finland) for all of the work we do together!
- Metaplay CPO and co-founder Teemu Haila on the importance of building foundations for success before, not after the fact
- Game analysis: How Brawl Stars achieved its incredible comeback
😍 NEW Finnish games released:
- Game demo Trinitarius made in the Karelia University of Applied Sciences Game production course has been published on Itch.io
🇫🇮 Articles in Finnish
💰 Funding
- DigiDemo new application time opens at 20th May.
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
👉 Upcoming Events
- 30th May-4th July; Monetization Workshop series from Multiscription
- June 13, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Analytics for Indie Success
Katla Hrund Björnsdóttir - June 20, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Marketing & Network Effect (Panel)
Moderator: Teis Anker Mikkelsen
Panelists: Sissel Morell Dargis & Ömer Yakabagi - June 27, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Publisher Partnerships 101
Søren Lass & Markus Windelen - July 4, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Interactive Round Table
Teis Anker Mikkelsen & TBD
- June 13, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Analytics for Indie Success
- 13-19th Unity Summer Game Jam / Virtual
- 25-27th June Metaversenergy Hackathon / Pori. Register before 12th June
- 18-20th September Northern Game Summit / Kajaani
- 30th September – 4th October: Finnish Games Week
- 30th September IGDA Finland Leadership Day 2024
- 1st-3rd October; Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2024
- discount code: PlayFinland20
- Be a speaker at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki this October? Submit your talk here
- 3rd October W Love Games Conference 2024
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 📅 Game Conference Guide Calendar 📅Flemish Game association calendar & 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 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