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This week news about the Finnish Game Industry moves between endings, new beginnings, and a bit of politics in between. Squad Busters is reaching its finish line with the final update coming in December 2025, while Hill Climb Racing 3 rolls out in Open Beta across Finland, Sweden, Norway, and the UK. Finland’s official stance on the Digital Fairness Act was clarified in Parliament, where Neogames’ KooPee Hiltunen spoke before the Committee for Economic Affairs — big thanks to the decision-makers who have kept their ears open on the matter. And next week, it’s time for Get Funded – How to Fund Your Game Start-Up in 2025, organised by Neogames Finland on Tuesday, November 4, and streamed for everyone who can’t join on-site.
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💡Big News
- Squad Busters development is ending, final update in December 2025
- Finland’s official position on the Digital Fairness Act was clarified in Parliament. Neogames’ KooPee Hiltunen was invited to speak on the topic before the Parliamentary Committee for Economic Affairs last Thursday. Neogames extends its thanks to the decision-makers who have been attentive to the matter. Parliamentary press release (in Finnish)
📣Neogames Dones & News
- Neogames Finland organizes Get Funded – How to fund your game start-up in 2025 event on next Tuesday, Nov 4. The event is also streamed
- Suvi Latva shares her thoughts about diversity at the Games Industry at Pocket Gamer Article
- Iida Laurila took a part to Talent Boost Summit!
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- Diversity;
- If you currently work, have previously worked, study, are seeking employment in the Finnish game industry or are closely connected to the field, please participate in the We in Games experience survey
- Sari Latvala on building games based on different viewpoints and mutual understanding
- Games Now Event Week is back from Nov 10–16, 2025!
- Discussion (in Finnish) about horror in games, and ie. Shifting Chambers by Korpi Games in YleAreena
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Remedy Isn’t Satisfied with Recent Sales, But Remains Confident and Aims for ‘Significant Commercial Success’ by 2030
- Nitro Games interim report Jan-Sept 2025 released, positive result in Q3
- Fingersoft’s journey to Hill Climb Racing 3
- Bugbear: Wreckreation – The Ultimate Open-World Arcade Racing Sandbox
- You can still pre-order the limited edition of the short novel of Willow Guard
- Korpi Games released a new update for Virtual Hunter!
- Colossal Order brings you Bridges & Ports, the first major expansion for Cities: Skylines II! See The Launch Trailer
😍 NEW Finnish games released & soft launched
💰 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:
- 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:
- Lifeline Ventures unveils €400M Fund VI to support Europe’s next generation of startups
- 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
- COO/Product manager at Lola Panda / Beiz
- Play Ventures Job Board
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- 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
- 8th November Skill Check Conference by Silver Legend / Oulu
- 10-11th November Games Now! Talk
- 10-16th November Games Now! Exhibition
- 11-16th November Games Now! GameJam
- 13th November Matching Games & AV networking event / Helsinki
- 13th November Day Zero 2025 of XmasJKL / Jyväskylä
- 14th November – The Game Industry Business Seminar / XmasJKL / Jyväskylä
- 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.
- 25th November Finnish Game Industry QA Meetup
- 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