How an office sauna might help make Finland’s next tablet game blockbuster

The organizers of Slush paid my way to Finland last month. Our coverage of the event and of the Helsinki startups we talked to remains objective.

HELSINKI, Finland — Grand Cru has built a very nice and very Finnish headquarters for its employees, complete with a wood-burning stove in the kitchen and a sauna for important meetings. It treats its employees well because it figures it will be around for a while, based on the prospects for its first game, Supernauts, which the game studio is building for smartphones and tablets.