Fine Art
Stugan founder to auction off Simon Stålenhag’s Forest Iron Painting to benefit games accelerator
The painting will be auctioned off at Bukowski's auction house on October 23
A Polished Gem
How does Legend of Solgard engage, retain and monetise?
Analysing King’s new midcore matcher
It's A Hit
How a move into the hyper-casual games market provided MAG Interactive with a spring in its step
"Our teams make tonnes of prototypes and are in the habit of testing them early in the development process, which is the reason we realised that we had a real gem here"
Cabin
Games accelerator Stugan welcomes 21 developers in 2018 line-up
The programme has aimed to double down on diversity with this year’s crop
Moving Day
PlayMagic set for public expansion on the Swedish Stock Exchange
The games development studio hopes to start trading within the fourth quarter of 2018
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
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Eldring Games' Dan Olsson on overcoming adversity and taking risks
“I set out to do this because it has a lot of potential and I figure it's worth the risk. And it is a big risk, but you've got to take those sometimes.”
Another Way
Alternative Android game store Flexion raises $10 million prior to 2018 IPO
Levelling up
Developer Support
Stugan games accelerator open for applications
Program returns to Sweden for a fourth time to support games development
Another Ipo
Ruzzle developer MAG Interactive launches IPO with $137 million valuation
Share prices at around $5
Funding Quest
Ex-King staff raise $2.2 million for new Swedish studio Strange Quest
Developer to focus on multiplayer games for mobile
Mag Ipo
MAG Interactive to begin public trading on December 8th
IPO begins today
Mag Ipo
Ruzzle developer MAG Interactive eyes $68 million IPO
$27 million of shares already put to one side for existing investors
Event News
King, Riot and BioWare head up speaker line-up for Sweden Game Conference 2017
Over 800 attendees expected
A Growing Business
Swedish games industry generated revenues of $1.7 billion in 2016
Swedish Game Developer Index spills the beans
Birds To Vr
Angry Birds 2 lead programmer Jonas Johansson unveils social VR studio Neuston
Bringing his mobile and console experience together into VR
Class Of 2017
Stugan reveals the 15 teams taking part in its 2017 accelerator program
26 developers, seven weeks, one cabin
Paradox On Mobile
Paradox Interactive opens new mobile games development studio in Malmö
Prison Architect: Mobile is just the beginning
New Studio
DICE veterans form new developer Fall Damage
Swedish Games Industry CEO Maria Tjärnlund named as Chairman of the Board
Goats To Games
Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain Studios opens publishing arm
Wants to be a partner more than a publisher
Join The Corps
Swedish developer Gaming Corps pivots to acquisition strategy following $10 million investment
Bought one studio, now wants to buy more
Cabin In The Woods
Games accelerator-in-a-cabin Stugan opens applications for third annual program
Applications close March 31st
Mag Wiklander
MAG Interactive brings on ex-Widespace exec Magnus Wiklander as CFO
Helping to grow the business
Reunited
King invests big in Swedish developer Snowprint Studios
Bringing old friends back into the fold
Fresh Start
Former Rovio Stockholm GM Oskar Burman opens "narrative-rich" VR studio Fast Travel Games
Kristoffer Benjaminsson and Erik Odeldahl complete the team
Sharing The Wealth
MAG Interactive hits 100 millon downloads, celebrates by making players in-game millionaires
Ruzzle powers Swedish firm to huge milestone
Stugan 2016
Stugan 2016 reveals participants, announces Rami Ismail and Peter Vesterbacka as mentors
Big names, interesting games
On The Market
Tencent acquires 5% as Paradox Interactive goes public
Initial offering of $4 per share
Older Female Payers
G5 Entertainment announces it's generated $100 million from mobile hidden object games
Can you spot the difference?
Social Is The Glue
Creativity within restrictions is the key to success, says chat game dev Palringo
We take a tour round its Swedish studio
Swedish Scenes At Stugan
Stugan 2016 applications closed, location of summer program announced
7 weeks of making games in the Swedish countryside
Reel 'em In
Gear VR fishing game Bait! catches 150,000 downloads in first five days of release
First download data released for an Oculus-powered game
Catch Of The Day
Resolution Games unveils fantastical fishing adventure Bait! for Gear VR
Go fishing for real, in virtual reality
All Change
Patrick Liu takes charge of Rovio Stockholm, as GM Oskar Burman moves on
What's next?
Thriving Or Doomed?
Swedish indie Mediocre on surviving and thriving amidst the so-called 'indie apocalypse'
Johansson, Gustavsson and Bengtsson discuss the sustainability of indie dev
Future Of Vr
Devs must learn from 'intuitive' mobile games and stop making 'alienating' VR experiences, says Tommy Palm
It's so close you can touch it
Virtual Unknowns
Mediocre on the unclear vision for consumer VR
The Swedish indie explores the murky world of virtual reality
Applications Open
Swedish game accelerator Stugan heads back to the woods for 2016
Spend the summer in Sweden
Coming Soon
Mediocre on new game DIRAC and playtesting the social way
Swedish indie looks forward to a big 2016
New Platforms, Same Philosophy
2015 in Review: Mediocre Henrik Johansson on why despite a slow start, 2016 will be the year of VR
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Making Tracks
King, DICE, Rovio, and Zynga vets form midcore focused Snowprint Studios
Working on Nordic-themed RPG
Defying The Name
Mediocre's Henrik Johansson on not worrying about Asia, keeping faith in premium, and shunning indie elitism
Catching up in Pune
Inflationary
Apple increases App Store prices in Australia, Sweden and Indonesia
Foreign exchange balance
Breaking Ground
Resolution closes largest VR game development Series A funding round at $6 million
Led by Google Ventures
Nio Beginnings
N3TWORK acquires Swedish studio Nio Games to produce a new breed of mobile games
Euro Vision
Incubate
Why Stugan is the accelerator every indie developer needs
Nestled in the Swedish woods, a new type of accelerator has been created
Muse Me
Stugan: What games inspire you?
The indie games chart their top five best games.
Flapping Great
Bigger, badder, birdier: The Making of Angry Birds 2
The general manager of Rovio Stockholm lifts the lid on a new sequel
The Birds Are Back In Town
Angry Birds 2 launches with new Silver female cast member
Rovio's sequel hits shelves
Spell It Out
Stugan: How to write for video games
We ask three video game writers about their creative processes