The authors of The Walking Dead: No Man's Land acquired Helsinki GameWorks

Finnish studio Next Games, which is currently preparing a mobile game in The Walking Dead universe, has acquired its neighbors – startup Helsinki GameWorks.

Both teams have not released any games yet and can only boast of experienced employees. Next Games is founded by people from Rovio, Supercell and Disney. Helsinki GameWorks gathered mainly veterans of Rovio, Remedy, Recoil Games and Futuremark. 

The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but it is known that the CEO of GameWorks Kalle Kaivola, who previously served as vice president of product and publishing at Rovio, will become the head of games under licenses at Next Games. 

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• Next Games is a small Finnish startup founded in 2013 by former employees of Rovio, Supercell and Disney.

By the end of 2014, he raised investments by $6 million. One of the main investors was Jari Ovaskainen, who invested money in Supercell at an early stage.