TutoTOONS reaches 50 million downloads, growing 10x in 10 months
Lithuanian game creation platform for non-coders TutoTOONS has reached 50 million downloads and ten times more daily players than a year ago.
Just as we were wa...
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Ready, Set – And Beta Test Playfield!
Guys at Shark Punch took liberty of solving the biggest problem in the indie game development world – discoverability.Playfield is a marketplace and a community...
Pick Your Tools – We Are Going To Farm Away!
Make Hay, Not War.Finnish mobile gaming studio Futureplay Games announces global launch of their brand new title Farm Away for iOS devices on the App Store worl...
Monkey Business
Continuing trend of opening private businesses, Tuomas Erikoinen has developed a new game called Monkeyrama.
Launch date is set for today so ready your phones l...
Pianorobot Teaches The Language Of Music
Tampere based startup Pianorobot launches today indiegogo campaign for animation game that gives you instant feedback while learning how to play piano.Pianorobo...
Resolution Games closes $6 million Series A led by Google Ventures
Stockholm-based gaming studio announces closing the largest single investment round for any virtual reality gaming company. We got big news today from the gami...
Should Finnish Social Security System invest in a video game?
Drunk-Fu: Wasted Masters is a statement towards the Finnish drinking culture. At ArcticStartup, we don't want to encourage our readers to get involved in drunke...
Everybody loves meatballs
Parta Games is a game studio from Suonenjoki, the 'strawberry capital' of Finland.A bit of misplaced voodoo magic and a twist of fate causes a meatball come bac...
Seriously raises $18 million Series A
The Helsinki-based entertainment startup continues to build up its mobile-first strategy.Seriously, a mobile entertainment startup behind the Best Fiends game, ...
Rovio looks for a comeback with Angry Birds "2"
Out of Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Transformers, Angry Birds Stella POP!, and so on, you might be surprised that Rovio has never made an...
Finland's Motorious launches to develop new Top Gear games
Just like tulips in the spring, new gaming companies are popping up here in Finland. The most recent of which is Motorious Entertainment, which announces is bui...
You saw it coming: Seriously gets into physical toys
It was inevitable. With Seriously CEO Andrew Stalbow the ex-EVP of Strategic Partnerships at Rovio, you knew that the Best Fiends characters were destined to en...
Kumoon reboot hits Steam Greenlight
The game that won the Assembly 2005 Gamedev Competition is back.Ten years ago Kumoon got its start as a "ballistics puzzler" run by Mikko Oksalahti (Hitlantis, ...
Playraven starts talking up new IP: Robocide
Finnish game developer Playraven has started talking up some new IP.
Their first game, Spymaster, was celebrated as one of the most original games to hit the iP...
Koukoi games announces first title
Oulu-based Koukoi Games has released the IP of what they're working on - a runner of sorts called Crashing Season where you control different kinds of animal ch...
Arcade indie game Tiltagon reaches one million downloads
Breakthrough of Tiltagon pushes forward newlyweds dream of establishing their own game company.Tilt. Fall. Repeat. – That's the process of Tiltagon.We got great...
Ministry raises €1.8 Million ahead of new game
Helsinki-based Ministry of Games picked up a nice funding round ahead of a to-be-announced game.
Judging by the quality of the investors, this could be an inter...
Rovio looks east with Angry Birds Fight!
If there's one thing Rovio evangelist Peter Vesterbaka is all about, it's... well, Angry Birds. But if there was a second thing he would be all about, it would ...
Tunnel Ground ties in mobile games with comics
Tunnel Ground is set to expand into the US market in the summer with a new business model based on games and comics.Game companies are all looking for an edge t...
Finnish indie game Fallman set to rise like a trampoline hero
FallmanThe exciting thing about the Finnish gaming ecosystem is that titles can come out of nowhere. This is especially true with Fallman, a one-man production ...