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This week at Gamescom has been an exciting whirlwind, with Neogames rolled the Nordic All Stars booth. There was a great success among Finnis Devs at Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2024. Another great news is that Return Entertainment’s is partnering with Aethir GPUs to bring cloud gaming to smart TVs. Don’t forget, registration for Games First 2024 is now open! In broader industry news, Epic’s Mobile Store launched this week, and it’s also worth noting that Apple is now requiring developers to display their address, phone number, and email on the App Store in the EU.
💎Highlights
- Return partners with Aethir GPUs for smart TV cloud gaming
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Registration for Games First 2024 is open at https://supr.cl/gf-apply ! The event is free, but spaces are limited – apply for your ticket by August 30th.
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📣Neogames News
- Hendrik Lesser will continue as president of European Games Developer Federation (EGDF) and so do will KooPee Hiltunen Hiltunen from Neogames Finland ry
- This week Neogames operated Nordic All Stars Booth at Gamescom. This year the booth features companies and game clusters from Finland, Norway and Estonia. Finnish partners include Bonus Stage, Boss Hogg, Dreamloop Games, Makea Games, Millenary Games, Quicksave Interactive, Resistance Games, Spectarium Games, XPFIRST, BusinessOulu and GameCity Kajaani.
📰 Game Industry News
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
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Pocket Gamer People’s Choice Award 2024: Honourable mentions: Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, Squad BustersBest Live Ops: Winner: Stumble Guys & Honourable mentions: Brawl Stars, Jackpot PartyBest Service Provider: Honourable mentions: Amber, GeeklabBest Tool Provider: Honourable mentions: Metaplay, Unity TechnologiesBest AI Games Tech: Honourable mentions: Cosmic Lounge, modl.ai
- Lightneer is closed / bankrupted
💰 Funding
- DigiDemo application period for demo grants is open until 6 September
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine; “How to help me notice your job application”
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
💡 Good to know
- Steam to ban adding links to other websites and games in text descriptions on store pages!
- Good advices for growth company looking for investment
- Apple requiring developers to show address, phone number, and email address on App Store in EU.
- Epic Mobile Store opened this week
👉 Upcoming Events
- 18th September: Game Industry in Turmoil / NGS side event
- 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
- 30th October Games First Helsinki Registration is open at https://supr.cl/gf-apply ! The event is free, but spaces are limited – apply for your ticket by August 30th.
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)
- 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 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