This year is a major milestone for Finland as they celebrated 100 years of independence! The official date is tomorrow, 6th December, but many companies are celebrating the occassion today as tomorrow is a bank holiday. Events were scheduled nationwide with companies encouraged to have studio-wide coffee around 2pm. Fireworks and lights filled the city centre with displays, and tomorrow there's a children's event with alpacas. Dude. Alpacas!
Remedy joined in on the celebrations with champagne and cake! Photos were posted by developers on Twitter tagging the company:
Celebrating Finland's 100th anniversary at @remedygames #suomisata #Finland100 #cake pic.twitter.com/oCGqLevUe2— Eevi Korhonen (@silliet) December 5, 2017
Kicking off Finland’s 100 year anniversary right at @remedygames pic.twitter.com/jEoHT59hTd— Paul Ehreth (@bacon_sanwich) December 5, 2017
We're celebrating 100 years of Finnish independence @remedygames today. Cake & champagne all around pic.twitter.com/YLrlG0JOyi— Anna Megill (@cynixy) December 5, 2017
Our home nation Finland is celebrating 100 years of independence on December 6th. Here are some historic Finnish moments... #lasseviren #mannerheim #mm1995 #curre #alanwake #suomi100 pic.twitter.com/a15N6sHmFF— Remedy Entertainment (@remedygames) December 5, 2017
In addition nationwide events, Steam is celebrating the occasion with a sale spotlighting Finnish titles! Death Rally 2011/12, Max Payne, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne and Quantum Break are all on sale in addition to other great titles. (Death Rally doesn't show as one of the spotlighted titles, but if you search for it, the game is 80%.)
If you have all of Remedy's collection, I recommend checking out games by other Finnish developers including Cities Skylines, Legend of Grimrock and Trials Evolution.
