Acquisition News
UK publisher PlayStack acquires Finnish developer Hisome
Studio renamed PlayStack Oy and will be responsible for development and finding new partners
Kitted Out
Looking into the Developer Toolkit track at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki touches down in Finland on September 11th to 12th
Lay Of The Land
Looking across the Live Ops Landscape at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki touches down in Finland on September 11th to 12th
Infoblast!
Everything you need to know about Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki (UPDATE)
We’ve rounded up all the essential info ahead of next week’s two-day conference and expo
Pocketgamer Connects Helsinki
Speaker Spotlight: Veikkaus game producer Karoliina Korppoo on taking a bet on gambling games
"To me the most interesting trend recently is how people who play gambling games are moving from buying physical scratchcards and playing on physical slot machines to play on mobile"
We Like Sports And We Don’t Care Who Knows
The esports academy track at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki
The past, present and future of esports in the modern day
Slow And Steady
Next Games revenue nearly halves in H1 2018 as The Walking Dead: Our World dev buckles down on game launches
Development costs and fall in DAUS hurts sales
What A Steel
Casual action game Hills of Steel rolls past 10 million downloads
The publishing label Round Zero was formed by Fingersoft last year
Growing Up
How Finnish studio Koukoi Games is leveraging Hollywood licenses and its own original IP to find success
CEO discusses the studio's history and where it's headed
Be Careful What You Wish For
The madness and method of Supercell’s M&A philosophy
A double-edged sword
Jobs News
Finnish publisher Full XP names Eliza Ralph as CTO
Will be responsible for leading the company’s technical direction and strategy
Got Insight?
Call for speakers for biggest PG Connects Helsinki on September 11th to 12th
Fifth outing to feature new tracks, new partner conference, new fringe events in new venue
Jobs News
Lightneer names new CEO, cancels Big Bang Legends
Co-founder Lauri Jarvilehto steps into chairman role
Funded
Nokia phone manufacturer to “aggressively expand” in 2018 after raising $100 million
Round of investment was led by Ginko Ventures
Rovio Financials
Record revenues for Angry Birds 2 boost Rovio profits
But overall company sales dip year-on-year
Finnish Culture
Ilkka Paananen: Open and friendly community is what makes Finnish games industry special
“Fundamentally I think this results in better games"
New Digs
Games Factory to open new hub for Finnish games companies in June
The tech space will hold 20 Finnish small to mid-sized gaming companies at a time
Ouch
Next Games revenue down 56% in Q1 2018 as Walking Dead: No Man’s Land loses players
Finnish developer cites change in daily active and monthly active users as the primary reason for drop in revenues
Silly Money
Ads generate majority of $270k revenue for Finnish indie Part Time Monkey's Silly Walks
Unity Ads-driven earnings made up 97 per cent of all revenue
Finnternal Promotions
Next Games promotes from within for management team
Finnish games developer also promotes former Head of Games Sami Nurmio to Head of New Projects
Finland's Finest
Empires & Puzzles wins Small Screen Game of the Year at Finnish Game Awards
Former Big Indie Pitch winner Team Ocmo picks up Rookie of the Year
Angry Investors
Rovio: What went wrong?
A real nest buster
Terminal Decay?
Something has gone terribly wrong with Finland - it has become an emblem of mobile games industry stagnation
Tero Kuittinen looks at the recent hot trends in the mobile space, and wonder where Finland's studios are
Cancelled
Armada Interactive cancels debut strategy game Quantum Siege
The title had been in soft launch since May 29th 2017
Doors Open
Habbo Hotel developer opens new MMORPG Hotel Hideaway on iOS and Android
Studio to bring AR functionality using Apple’s ARKit in spring
Giant Investment
Finnish developer Small Giant Games raises $41 million
Success of Empires & Puzzles leads to significant funding round as studio plots further growth
Fifth Finland
PG Connects Helsinki 2018 confirmed for September 11th to 12th
Call for speakers, content overview, save the date
New Wine
Don’t stop believing: The reinvention of Grand Cru
CEO Markus Pasula discusses the past, present and future of the Finnish studio
Business Finland
Tekes and Finpro merge to form new Helsinki-based organisation Business Finland
600 experts and over 40 international offices come together
Happy Birthday Finland
Rovio, Supercell, RedLynx, and more celebrate Finland's 100th birthday
Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää Suomi!
Finnish Xr
Finnish XR companies grew their revenues by almost 600% in 2016 compared to 2015
FIVR breaks down Finland's XR ecosystem
Sounds Good
Finnish startup Bon Games closes $1.4 million seed round to launch first game Transit King
Fingersoft handling publishing duties
Super Tax
Supercell generated €881 million in tax revenue in 2016
CEO Ilkka Paananen earned €46.6 million in taxable income
Big Numbers
The huge stats behind Supercell’s explosive success
Ilkka Paananen shares some impressive figures
Finland Ipo
Ups and downs: How Finland's biggest IPOs of 2017 are performing
How are this year's IPOs performing today
Fiendish Rivalry
Seriously takes Best Fiends back to its puzzle roots with soft-launched Best Fiends Rivals
A twist on a classic
Limbering Up
Fitness Village shapes up for global launch
PocketGamer.biz takes a tour of the studio
New Publisher
Hill Climb Racing developer Fingersoft launches data-driven publishing label Round Zero
VP of Publishing Daniel Rantala named as CEO of new division
Hot Ticket
Rovio on its $1 billion IPO and acquisition strategy
“We are stronger now than ever before"
Rovio Oversubscription
Rovio discontinues public offering of shares due to oversubscription during IPO
Institutional offering still going ahead
One Minute Heroes
Panzerdog on distilling the essence of console shooters into its 5v5 mobile game Tacticool
Fast-to-start, quick-to-end
Bucks For Bangs
Panzerdog raises $950,000 from Mail.Ru to launch mobile shooter Tacticool
Finnish/Russian dev closes seed round
Angry Unicorn
Rovio eyes $1 billion valuation for October IPO
Listing could pave the way for acquisitions
Taking Flight
Deconstructing Rovio’s pragmatically Finnish IPO
Angry Birds dev going public
Rovio Ipo
Rovio officially unveils plans for an IPO on Nasdaq Helsinki
The rumours were true
Explosive Start
Lightneer secures $5 million seed funding round to prep for launch of Big Bang Legends
Invisible-learning game now due to launch in January 2018
Critical Hit
Mobile shooter Critical Ops marches past 25 million downloads
860,000 daily active users
Bigger Better
King, Rovio, Gram Games, Twitter and Unity part of final 'big speaker reveal' for PG Connects Helsinki 2017
September 19th to 20th conference shaping up to be unmissable, business boosting affair
Flying High
Report: Angry Birds developer Rovio plots IPO
Listing could raise $400 million for the company
To The Moomin
Moomin-focused mobile developer Snowfall promotes COO Natasha Trygg to CEO
Former CEO Petri Elovaara will stick around as a board member and advisor