Rovio Ipo
Rovio officially unveils plans for an IPO on Nasdaq Helsinki
The rumours were true
Pc Connects
Remedy, Housemarque and Bossa head up PC Connects Helsinki 2017
Event takes place on September 19th to 20th in, you guessed it, Helsinki
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
Countdown Time
Super Early Bird & Midsummer Special last chance: PG Connects Helsinki 2017
Double discount for September 19th-20th 'triple conference' will run out soon
Now Playing
Now playing: PlayRaven CEO Lasse Seppanen on Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
Revved Up
Top Gear mobile developer Motorious drives up extra $894,000 in funding
Debut game Top Gear Road Trip set for summer release
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Supercell's Richard Bangs on how to get a job as a Game Programmer
Boss Alien co-founder and Clash Royale programmer shares career insights
Pedal Power
Finnish game jam JamBike gives two developers a week to make a game while riding a tandem bike
Game to be showcased at Nordic Game Conference 2017
Finland's First
Next Games on its successful IPO and being Finland's first publicly-traded game developer
CEO Teemu Huuhtanen gives IPO advice
What's Next?
Next Games doubles revenue in Q1 2017 after successful IPO
Helsinki firm grows to 77 employees
Undead And Kicking
One and a half years on: Next Games on the evolution of The Walking Dead: No Man's Land
CMO Saara Bergström on the game's life so far
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
Setting Sail
"Pokemon GO is a great opportunity for us": Shipyard talks Supercell funding and its location-based game ambitions
CEO Andreas Wedenberg talks Supercell, Pokemon GO and the potential of geo games
Ship Comes In
Shipyard Games secures $2.9 million investment from Supercell to develop location-based game
Supercell continues to flash its cash
Seriously Profitable
Best Fiends franchise generates more than $65 million in revenue
Seriously making $100,000 a day
Live And Kicking
Two years on: Seriously on the evolution of Best Fiends
CCO Petri Järvilehto on the game's life so far
Next Games Goes Public
Next Games becomes first Finnish games studio to go public on NASDAQ First North
Studio enjoys strong debut
Live And Kicking
Two years on: EA on the evolution of SimCity BuildIt
Live Service Lead Inka Vikman on the game's life so far
Small Giant Investment
Small Giant Games closes $5.7 million funding round to grow new game Empires & Puzzles
Brings total funding raised to around $9.5 million
Giant Plans
Why Finnish developer Small Giant is ditching casual comforts with Empires & Puzzles
CEO Timo Soininen discusses the thinking behind its latest game
Raven's Call
PlayRaven brings in ex-EA exec Juha Sadeharju as COO
Overseeing studio operations and recruitment
Join The Armada
Armada Interactive secures $10 million from two seed funding rounds
Looking to revolutionise core mobile gaming
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: PlayRaven's Paul Kurowski on how to get a job as a Game Lead
Spymaster Game Lead shares career insights
Break The Ice
$14 million Finnish investment fund Icebreaker wants to help established developers create startups
Bringing people together to create exciting new software
Roviocon 2017
Rovio to host talks and panels from industry legends at second RovioCon in Helsinki on April 20th
Followed by jazz and jolly conversation
Don't Read This Article
How Seriously won YouTube Ad of the Year with 'Don't Download Best Fiends' campaign
Philip Hickey talks creative marketing
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
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
Talking Seriously
How to get a job at Best Fiends developer Seriously
Chief Creative Officer Petri Jarvilehto shares insights
All Hands On Deck
Why Next Games gets everyone including the CEO involved with Customer Support
CMO Saara Bergström explains the firm's novel approach
Iap Inspector
How does Best Fiends Forever monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Playraven Profile
How PlayRaven is embracing Finland's sharing culture to reboot Spymaster
CEO Lasse Seppanen on the journey so far
Fame Land
Hall of Fame: Delving into the mind of Badland developer Johannes Vuorinen
Making it big in premium
Super Frog
Supercell acquires 51% of Badland developer Frogmind as the two studios enter a long-term partnership
Frogmind to remain completely independent
Supercell Expansion?
Supercell weighing up investments in other developers and opening new studios
CEO Ilkka Paananen expands on his previous hints
Beyond Helsinki
Supercell looking at ways to bring its company culture to "teams in other locations"
Ilkka Paananen thinks big on company culture
Pgc Helsinki Speaker Spotlight
1010! and Six! developer Gram Games on its game-specific UA approaches
UA Manager Kerem Alemdar explains all
Industry Connections
250 companies heading to Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2016
Get your networking on
Best Man
Hall of Fame: Seriously's Petri Järvilehto on building big games franchises
From Max Payne to Angry Birds and Best Fiends
Party With Pocket Gamer
Join Pocket Gamer, Rovio and KamaGames for the PG Connects Helsinki Party
Register for PGC Helsinki to get access
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
Secret Service
Unity Finland working on mysterious "revolutionary" Project X
Jussi Laakkonen teases details
Pitching & Networking
Getting into Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2016 for free
Looking for a way to bag yourself a free ticket to PGC Helsinki?
Boss Remedy
Remedy names former RedLynx boss as its new CEO
Finnish studio hires Tero Virtala after 12 years at RedLynx
Growing Plan
Shifting DAUs from low value China, how Seriously used influencers to raise US daily revenues 400%
Best Fiends love
Under Pressure
Three games canned, daily reviews, little freedom: Why Gameloft Helsinki failed
The studio cancelled three games before its closure
Best Fiends Forever
Seriously's clicker sequel Best Fiends Forever returns to soft launch
Less idle, more RPG