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This week news about the Finnish Game Industry brings a news about the resent and possibly upcoming layoffs in Finland – which is part of bigger European trend recently – as well as other news in companies’ structures. Neogames has continued with its policy work in DFA topics.
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📣Neogames Dones & News
- As part of advocacy work, Neogames Finland submitted their answer to the European Commission’s consultation on the Digital Fairness Act. The consultation round ends today (Friday, 24th of October).
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- Rebooting Play is the new premier games event in the Nordics, in collaboration with Slush. A curated program designed to spark creativity, foster collaboration, and explore the future of games. There is no better time for The Nordic games industry to come together and define the next wave of gaming! Thanks to sponsors, event has tickets reserved emerging talent in the games industry — whether you’re an entrepreneur, developer, or creative visionary. The last date to apply a ticket is 31st of October.
- GDC announces details of its new Festival rebrand, remains industry only. Piece of news – thread to discuss about it in Play Finland.
- We in Games Finland’s Experience survey collects insights into the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Finnish game industry workplaces, events, and schools. Submit your responses.
- Game Designers of Finland is back after a long break, and they are kicking things off with a Spooky Quiz Night at Aalto Design Factory on October 30th!
- Film × TV × Game × Comics Industry Networking — HALLOWEEN EDITION on 31st October
- Discover new contacts and business opportunities with film, TV, and games at the Matching Games & AV networking event! 13.11.2025 13th November
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Ubisoft RedLynx proposes strategic refocus on small screen
- Rovio Entertainment lays off 36 employees as part of restructuring
- Remedy Entertainment CEO Tero Virtala steps down after almost a decade
- The Last Caretaker by Channel37 is being featured on a Debug magazine’s cover (and inside too!)
- Rovio’s Angry Birds Flock Party is one of the hero titles on Amazon’s new GameNight servic on Luna.
💰 Funding
- New funding call from Creative Europe Programme: Video games and immersive content development. Deadline for submission: 11 February 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time.
- Check out the info sessions:
- EACEA Info Session on Oct 29th, 11-13 Finnish time, join the session.
- Creative Europe Desk Finland Info Session, tailored to support Finnish applicants, on Dec 9th, 13-14.30 Finnish time. Register to join.
- Check out the info sessions:
- 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
- 3oth October Game Designers of Finland meetup with a Spooky Quiz Night at Aalto Design Factory
- 31st October Film × TV × Game × Comics Industry Networking — HALLOWEEN EDITION / Helsinki
- 4th November Get Funded! event / Espoo / Hybrid
- 5th November Pelikulttuuristrategiapäivä
- 7th November Game Studies Day / Helsinki
- 7th November Xamk Game Track 2025 / Kotka + Online
- 13th November Matching Games & AV networking event / Helsinki
- 19th November Rebooting Play (Slush premier games event) / Helsinki. Event has tickets reserved for emerging talent in the industry – apply on Oct 31st the latest to join.
- 9th December Finnish Game Industry DEI summit / Helsinki / Hybrid
- 9th December Creative Europe Desk Finland Info Session for Creative Europe Programme’s Video games and immersive content development. Session is tailored for Finnish applicants. Register here.
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