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Remedy veteran starts new Finnish game startup

Remedy Entertainment game veteran Oskari “Ozz” Häkkinen has started a new mobile-game and app startup called Futurefly.

Häkkinen, the former head of franchise development at Remedy, the maker of hit games like Alan Wake, has started a new studio with nine employees in Helsinki, a hotbed of mobile-game startups. Mobile games are expected to become a $30 billion business this year, eclipsing console games on a global basis, according to market researcher Newzoo.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.