VR game firm Resolution Games raises $25 mln C round
Swedish VR games studio, Resolution Games, said it has closed a Series C funding round of $25 million. The round was co-led by Qualcomm Ventures LLC and BITKRA...
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Finland’s Koukoi Games sold to SciPlay
SciPlay Corporation said it has acquired Koukoi Games, a Finland-based developer and operator of casual mobile games. The Koukoi team that developed the hi...
Denmark’s Invisible Walls wraps round, sees 100-fold user growth with new deal
Danish game development studio Invisible Walls, which is wrapping its 500,000 euros funding round on Funderbeam, expects its userbase will grow hundred times b...
Finland’s Loupedeck raises €2 mln from Razer venture arm
Loupedeck, the Helsinki-based creator of custom consoles, announced a 2 million euros investment from zVentures, the corporate venture arm of Razer, the world’...
Sony buys Finnish games maker Housemarque
Sony has acquired Finnish 1995-founded gaming studio Housemarque. "I have been a fan of Housemarque since the studio’s early days when they introduced Super...
Finnish gaming firm Metacore gets €150 mln credit line from Supercell
Metacore, in whose Merge Mansion game 800,000 players renovate grandma's mansion each day, said it has got a 150 million euros credit line from Supercell to fu...
Supercell drops out of Top10 Finnish brands
Supercell became the fastest falling brand in Finnish annual brand value ranking as the gaming firm continued to see falling revenues in a year when gaming ind...
Time To Get Creative: Resolution Games Announced A Level Builder For Angry Birds
This coming holiday season players of Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs will have the freedom to design their very own levels, becoming game developers in their own...
Hiring For Nordic/Baltic Startup: Insider Tricks
When you are an early stage startup with rapid product development, it is truly crucial that your team of founders and first employees work together and build a...
Building Startup In Your Cabin: The Nordic Way
Open the window and let sun enter your room. Put on your t-shirt and walk out bare feet all the way to the beach. Watch the waves and see how good they are fo...
Exploring Sami Culture Through Gaming
On February 21-25 Utsjoki, Finland’s northernmost municipality will run a game jam challenge dedicated to Sami people and their culture. For this challenge, ...
1.5 Million Dollar GIF
Do you use GIF animations in your online marketing? If no, perhaps you should try as GIF is predicted to be the most powerful digital marketing tool in 2017. Th...
John Romero is Coming to Finland
John Romero, one of the original developers of Doom and Quake, is coming to Kajaani for a rare overseas visit. The reason to come all the way to Finland is vali...
Rival Games Is Bringing New Game and It's Awesome
Turku-based game studio Rival Games partnered with entertainment company Skybound Entertainment from LA, California to bring on the new video game based on the ...
VR Game Bait! Surpasses 2 Million Players And Releases VR Controller
2 million players all over the world and release of the newest VR controller - lots of news from Swedish gaming company Resolution Games. Resolution Games toda...
Critical Force Hits 22M Downloads And Is Set To Invade Asia
Finnish game developer Critical Force reported 22 million downloads of the Critical Ops, a first person shooter mobile eSports game. The game studio has also op...
Serious games for business people
Finnish business games company World of Insights turns the meeting room into a playroom together with world's top business schools. While working with staff fro...
3rd Eye Studios launches in VR
Finnish 3rd Eye Studios launched on Friday its debut VR game Downward Spiral - Prologue, a zero-gravity space thriller for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The core t...
Oulu's Koukoi goes to Hollywood
Oulu-based Koukoi Games unveiled a new partnership with FoxNext Games to develop a tie-in mobile game for the upcoming film, Ferdinand. "Feel the beat with ...
Tampere game studio raises $2.7 mln
Tampere-based Traplight, the developer of Big Bang Racing mobile game, said on Thursday it has raised $2.7 million from Korea Investment Partners and other inve...