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First look at Saros, Housemarque’s upcoming title, gameplay has been revealed (and it looks thrilling!). Metacore is celebrating its fifth anniversary with not-so-modest numbers: Merge Mansion has passed 60 million downloads and $700 million in lifetime revenue. Neogames crew has been travelling around Finland – from indie developers in the north to political decision-makers in the south. New Finnish game releases during the past two weeks give a great view of the versatility across platforms and game types. On top of all, the autumn calendar packed with events will keep the industry folks busy.
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💎Highlights
- Metacore celebrates fifth anniversary – Merge Mansion title has surpassed 60m downloads and $700m in lifetime revenue
- First look at Saros gameplay revealed
📣Neogames Dones & News
- Suvi Latva & KooPee Hiltunen visited today at Google Helsinki housewarming party
- Neogames Finland ry, as a partner of Gamebadges -project remind educators how to support students with Competence Map.
- Suvi Latva visited in Kajaani and Northern Game Summit
- Neogames on why Finland’s games industry is still alive and kicking after a challenging few years
- Neogames Finland ry, and Business Finland had webinar about the business opportunities in Indian games market on Thursday
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- W Love Games conference program is now LIVE + the first ever Finnish Games Week Steam Event featuring Finnish games on Steam
- Rovio chief sustainability officer Heini Kaihu believes Finland’s games industry has proved itself Resilient amid tough times
- Xamk Game Track on 7th November invites you to explore the potential of game technology. This year’s event focuses on three key themes: Development – Design – Business.
- Pocket Gamer offers free bus ride from Kotka, Porvoo, Jyväskylä and Lahti, ticket to the event is required
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Mika Tammenkoski, the CEO of Metacore shares 5 learnings from the company’s first 5 years
- Angry Birds Rush mobile game soft-launches in the US
- Supercell planning office facilities in the Maria area
😍 NEW Finnish games released
💰 Funding
- 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.
🏫 Education
📝 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
- 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
- 7th November Xamk Game Track 2025 / Kotka + Online
- 9th December Finnish Game Industry DEI summit / Helsinki / Hybrid
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