Gaming startups in 2017 received about $ 25 million in total with the help of collective funding on crowdfunding resources, according to the analytical company Ico Partners.

Rovio employees are launching a Lightneer educational gaming project.

Co-founder and former executive producer of RedLynx studio Atte Ilvessuo is launching a mobile gaming startup. He told about this in an interview with the resource Gamesindustry.biz .

The Finnish mobile games market is going through another cycle today: teams founded by people from console development studios appear on the local stage one after another.

The author of the Might and Magic series of games, John Van Caneghem, will develop mobile games. To this end, he founded the VC Mobile Entertainment studio.

The former head of the Rovio gaming division, Jamie Laes, founded his own mobile gaming startup Futureplay Games. In future projects, the studio will rely not on the usual free-to-play model, but on view-to-play.

Portuguese game studio Bica has completed the first round of seed investments. The funds came from a large venture fund Portugal Ventures. The exact amount of the investment was not disclosed.

California startup Akili is working on a game Project EVO, which can help diagnose autism, as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.