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This week’s news in the Finnish Game Industry has been a true roller coaster. On the bright side, Remedy turned profitable in the third quarter, China has approved Supercell’s Squad Busters, and Bitmagic has emerged as the standout winner of Game Changers 2025 for Generative AI & Agents. However, the darker side of the industry brings some unfortunate updates: Fingersoft lays off 14 their staff, and Sony has made the decision to close down Finnish studio Neon Koi.
⚡Biggest News
- Fingersoft lays off 14 staff after “substantial decline” in ad revenue
- Sony shuts Finnish Neon Koi
- China approves Supercell’s Squad Busters
- Bitmagic is the standout winner of Game Changers 2025 for Generative AI & agents!
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📣Neogames News
- Neogames Finland reminds about their upcoming event; “Level up: IP Strategies in Games” on 12th November!
- Neogames Finland KooPee Hiltunen and Jari-Pekka Kaleva met Media Desk Kerstin Degerman and Inkeri Lundgren and discussed about Creative Europe Media funding.
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- Young indie devs from the Espoo Game Lab, making their first title named Twilight Ferry. See the demo here
- A great gamified solution to a news story on YLE about access to care in mental health issues (in Finnish)
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studio
- Remedy’s earnings turned profitable in the third quarter
- Nitro Games released their Interim Report January – September 2024 and announced that Autogun Heroes is now available on the leading web games portal CrazyGames. + they joined the Sustainable Games Alliance (SGA)
- The cult status of the award-winning Alan Wake 2 was both a burden and a challenge in the game’s communication and marketing (article in Finnish)
💰 Funding
- Creative Europe’s funding call for video games is open – application deadline on Feb 12, 2025.
- EACEA organizes info session about Creative Europe’s funding for games on Nov 6, at 11-12.30 EET.
- EGDF organizes EU Funding webinar on Nov 6, 14.00 EET. Registration required to get the webinar link.
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
😍 NEW Finnish games released:
- Horsefly Games, has released Hyperdrive Inn in Steam. Check also SuomiGameHUB article in Finnish.
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Level up your career at the Autumn Games Job Fair on Nov 7-8, 2024!
- Apply to Kajaani GameLAB is a free mentoring program by 10th November
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- 6th November EACEA info session of Creative Europe’s funding for video games
- 6th November EGDF EU Funding webinar
- 7-8th November Games Job Fair
- Online event / LinkedIn Live: November 7
- Onsite / Kamppi Helsinki: November 8
- 12th November Level up: IP Strategies in Games
- 15th November XmasJKL
- 18th November Playing for the Planet Networking & Awards
- 20th November Core Talks: The Art and Science of Scaling
- 28-30th November 2024 the Unbreakable Connectivity Hackathon/ Espoo Nokia HQ. Apply here. The event has €10,000 prize pool and access to the Sirius Partner Program and there are also travel grants are available.
- 12-14th December; WEkEO Hackathon 2024: “Data-Driven Solutions for Climate Change”
- Kick-off Webinar on November 4, 2024
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!
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Neogames Finland