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This week we want to remind you that you should soon apply for the Epic MegaGrant – but no later than Sept. 22. Next week kicks off with the 17th Northern Game Summit in Kajaani, after which the autumn event river keeps streaming full speed ahead and then billowing into Finnish Games Week, October 6–10, 2025.
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📣Neogames Dones & News
- KooPee Hiltunen were introducing the Finnish Game Industry in Business College Helsinki career event.
😍 NEW Finnish games released
- Normogames released Burger Bots Inc. in Steam Early Access
- On Steam wishlist:
- Against All Skies by Resonarc
💰 Funding
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Apply for an Epic MegaGrant by September 22 (closes 11:59 PM ET)
- Call for Game Startups to apply for funding by 14.9.2025! Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN) is now looking for startups in the game sector.
- Criteria for applying:
1. Scalable business model ie. grow beyond just “one game at a time.”
2. Global mindset
3. Stage: Preferably Seed stage (Seed = first revenues and growth).
4. Already seeing recurring revenue or early loyal players/customers.
- Criteria for applying:
- Finnish (+ Europe’s largest) Wave Ventures unveils €7M fund to invest in Gen Z founders across the Nordics and Baltics
- 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.
📝 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
👉 Upcoming Events
- 15th September Tampere Game Hub presents Gaming Legal Summit with Lexia
- 17-19th September Northern Game Summit / Kajaani
- 18th September Business Finland – India/Finland Gaming sector webinar
- 30th September The First Finnish Game Industry QA Meetup. The Finnish Game Industry QA Meetup Group is aimed for everyone interested in quality assurance in games. Group is looking for speakers for their future meetup events.
- 3rd October Cyber Game Day – Value Network Day / Jyväskylä
- 6th-10th October Finnish Games Week 2025.
- 6th October HypeHype / Phantom Gamelabs / Supercell / Google Cloud – Show & Tell Game Mixer
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7-8th October; Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki The discount code for Play Finland members is: PlayFinland20
- 18th-19th October Kuopio Pelaa -pelikulttuuritapahtuma.
- 5th November Pelikulttuuristrategiapäivä
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