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This week news about the Finnish Game Industry covers e.g. funding and founding your game startup and a new game release. Neogames Finland hosted Get Funded – How to Fund Your Game Start-Up in 2025 on Tuesday – you can rewatch the stream if you missed it. We also published our statement on the planned Business Finland cuts to innovation funding. Talkin about founding a company; applications are now open for Kajaani GameLAB 2026 until November 23. On the release front, The Last Caretaker is out now in Early Access on PC – time to craft and build your way to saving the world. And to wrap up the week, National Game Week celebrates game education and culture, with 2025’s theme focusing on sustainable development.
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📣Neogames Dones & News
- Neogames Finland organized Get Funded – How to fund your game start-up in 2025 event on Tue. You can rewatch the stream here
- Neogames Finland‘ statement Business Finland in cuts in funding for innovation activities. Behind a paywall and in Finnish
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- Day Zero & #XmasJKL are coming 13th – 14th Nov 2025 Next Week
- Application period open for the Kajaani GameLAB 2026 3.11.-23.11.
- How the Finnish games industry is more welcoming yet still advancing when it comes to diversity
- National Game Week is an annual theme week held every November to promote game education and game culture. The theme for Game Week 2025 is sustainable development
😍 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
- Business Finland: R&D funding for boosting business in the creative industries.
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- 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
- 7th November Game Studies Day / Helsinki
- 7th November Xamk Game Track 2025 / Kotka + Online
- Finnish Game Jam Awards 2025
- 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