Jobs News
PlayRaven recruits Eero Pöyry as new Development Director
Has experience at betting agency Veikkaus and THQ Wireless
Eye For Fashion
Ex-Rovio and Digital Chocolate staff score pre-seed funding round for new Finnish mobile studio Polka Dot
Developer's ambition to become the leader in fashion games
2017 Finnish Game Awards
Clash Royale picks up two Game of the Year accolades at 2017 Finnish Game Awards
Kopla Games scores a win as Best Rookie
Critical Training
Critical Force wants to fix Finland's game dev shortage with new academy
20 students at Kajaani University will get specialist coaching and feedback
End Of The Boom?
Finnish games industry slows after years of rapid growth
But still on the rise
Public Nitro
Finnish developer Nitro Games considers public listing to support self-publishing efforts
Taking a page out of Next Games' book
Gumi Nordic Vr
Gumi and Nordisk Film partner for €100,000 incubation program Nordic VR Startups
Offering seed funding and advice to Nordic VR developers
Next Games Goes Public
Next Games becomes first Finnish games studio to go public on NASDAQ First North
Studio enjoys strong debut
Flew The Coop
Rovio sells TV animation studio to former CEO Mikael Hed
Will remain as partners on future books and animation
Next To Ipo
Next Games looking to $30 million IPO to boost development and global competitiveness
The Walking Dead: No Man's Land also hits 16 million downloads
Several Men No Dog
Everywear Games co-founder Markus Tuppurainen joins Two Men and a Dog as Executive Producer
From wearables back to mobile
Supercell Acquisitions
Supercell's Ilkka Paananen says "it's no secret" that the studio is looking at further acquisitions
Also talks about how Pokemon affected sales
Grin And Bear It
Game developer takes plunge into icy water to speak with investors at Finland’s Polar Bear Pitching
3D Bear flies the flag for mobile, PC and VR games in education
Supercell Financials 2016
Supercell sees revenues grow to $2.3 billion in 2016 thanks to success of Clash Royale
Earnings also increase around 8%
Finnish Games Industry
The Finnish and Nordic games industry from an investor’s perspective
Samuli Syvähuoko breaks it down
Grow Your Own
The hows and whys of talent acquisition and nurturing a successful team in games
Ella Romanos asks some experts
Critical Hit?
Critical Force on building Critical Ops as a mobile eSport
Tim Spaninks and Juri Juskevits on the potential of competitive mobile gaming
The Next Supercell
Who will be the next $10 billion games company after Supercell?
Oscar Clark asks some industry experts
The Lives Of Devs
Finnish game developers reveal their daily lives in new YouTube series Devs
Fingersoft, Kiemura already confirmed
Why Finland?
Can Finland still be a powerful force in the mobile games market?
Oscar Clark leads a panel to find out
Big Plans?
Zynga opens Helsinki office
One of the first studios set up under CEO Frank Gibeau
Finnish Learnings
3 things we learned at Slush about VR, mobile and social gaming
VR, mobile and social gaming all big at Europe’s biggest startup conference
App To The Stars
Peter Vesterbacka joins Space Nation to help regular people become astronauts via an app
...and other headlines you never think you'd write
Wargaming Helsinki
Wargaming acquires Finnish studio Boomlagoon to fuel its ambitions of being a "dominant" force in mobile games
Helsinki studio aims to hire new staff and expand portfolio
Flocks Of Angry Birds
Angry Birds 2 soars to lofty heights with 130 million downloads
Rovio games downloaded 3.5 billion times
Fun In Finland
4 things we learned about Finland, Asia and war games at the Northern Game Summit
Fresh from Kajaani: top tips for making serious gaming experiences and succeeding in South East Asia
Hollywood, Baby
Koukoi Games raises $1 million to work on licensed Hollywood IP games
Funding from IPR.VC and TEKES
Moomin On Up
Finnish start-up Snowfall raises €1 million to bring Moomin mobile games to Asia
Turku-based studio eyes up niche market
Leading The Pack
Supercell made up 80% of all Finnish game revenues in 2015, report claims
Powering Finland to Nordic dominance
Super Frog
Supercell acquires 51% of Badland developer Frogmind as the two studios enter a long-term partnership
Frogmind to remain completely independent
Pgc Helsinki 2016
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki hosts over 2,000 business meetings and 950 delegates
All the stats from the key industry conference
Critical Funding
Critical Force raises $4.5 million to push FPS eSports title Critical Ops out to Asia market
Partnering with NHN Entertainment to do so
Content-tastic
Less than a week to go: Everything you need to know about PG Connects Helsinki 2016
Going bigger, better, bolder for third time in Finland
Unreal Workshop
Learn how to make a game with Unreal Engine 4 live at PGC Helsinki 2016
Get to grips with Epic Games' powerful game engine
Talking Heads
Space Ape, Epic Games, Traplight, Motorious and Playa are the latest speaker additions for PG Connects Helsinki 2016
More minds, more knowledge
Bigger Bang
Big Bang Racing races past three million downloads in its first month
One million user generated levels too
Game Jam
Make a game at the Pocket Jam during Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2016
Join the game jam free
Last Chance
Final hours of PG Connects Helsinki 2016 Mid Term priced tickets
Book now to save up to 25% for biggest PGC HSK yet
Wakey Wakey
Tommy Palm Google Daydream keynote confirmed for PGC Helsinki 2016
Resolution Games founder offers rare insight into mobile VR platform on September 5th
Unreal Workshop
Unreal Workshop to teach devs how to make a game with Unreal Engine at PGC Helsinki 2016
Get to grips with Epic Games' powerful game engine
What To Do
Good research; clever choices; build community; be lucky: Badland dev Frogmind on what indies need to do to be successful in 2016
Coping with a maturing market
Money Money Money
Eric Seufert, Rovio, Gram Games, Dodreams, Pascal Clarysse and more scheduled for PGC Helsinki 2016's Monetise, Retain, Acquire track
Everything you need to know about getting players and keeping them playing
Boss Remedy
Remedy names former RedLynx boss as its new CEO
Finnish studio hires Tero Virtala after 12 years at RedLynx
Key Curriculum
PG Connects Helsinki 2016 Mobile Games University track schedule includes King, Rovio, Frogmind, Amazon, Secret Police, Mana Cube, Google and more
That's six hours of game development learning
Indie Focus
PG Connects Helsinki 2016: Traplight Games, Rovio, PlayRaven, Seriously and Secret Exit confirmed in Indie Futures track schedule
...and Next Games, Shark Punch, flaregames, Gamevil, FGL, Seepia Games, and more
Speaker Squad
Mark Sorrell, Traplight Games, Beatshapers, Seepia, Sisu and Dodreams join PG Connects Helsinki 2016
One month to go for final PGC of the year
20x20 Fun
Join Rovio's Wilhelm Taht for the PechaKucha Sessions at PG Connects Helsinki 2016
Oscar Clark ended up losing his trousers at the last one...
Blowing Up
Big Bang Racing hits one million downloads in its first week
100,000 user-generated levels already available
Under Pressure
Three games canned, daily reviews, little freedom: Why Gameloft Helsinki failed
The studio cancelled three games before its closure
Crashing China
Koukoi Games partners with MyGamez to bring Crashing Season to China
Despite further restrictions on mobile games