East Sweden Game

30/10/2026

Look at the jury for ESG Awards 2026! 🤩

Raw Fury, Coffee Stain Publishing, Paradox Interactive, Caketown Interactive, Pugstorm, Bright Gambit, Lurkit and Nightjar Collective.

That's eight companies sending people to East Sweden Game Summit on 19–20 November to play your games, meet developers and hang out with our community. Pretty amazing!

If you're working on a new game that you've been developing for less than a year, you should definitely apply for ESG Awards!

28/10/2026

Meet the jury of Aeronautics Hackathon 2026!

Six experts from Saab, the games industry and academia are ready to discover what you create during the hackathon.

Mikael Kalms – Games Industry Legend
Aseel Berglund – Linköping University
Olof Sundin – Saab Aeronautics
Victoria Hellgren – Saab Aeronautics
Magnus Engström – Saab Aeronautics
Anna Malm – Saab Aeronautics

On 28 November, developers, designers, engineers and students will come together in Linköping to build creative solutions to a real challenge from Saab.

Selected teams will be invited for the final on 10 December, where participants get to present their solutions to Saab.

26/10/2026

First speakers & workshop hosts announced for ESG Summit 2026!

From game design and programming to art, music and business - there's something for everyone, whether you're a student, indie developer or industry professional.

Swipe through to meet our first speakers and workshop hosts. More announcements are coming!

📅 19–20 November 2026 · Linköping, Sweden
🎟️ Free admission!

See you at ESG Summit!

09/10/2026

Big congrats to East Sweden Game member Jim Magnusson, whose game Vault of Power has just launched on Nintendo Switch!

Originally released on Steam, the game has now made the jump to console thanks to CGI Lab Games from Moldova, who handled the porting and publishing.

Always great to see our members reaching new platforms and new players. Well done to both teams!

Shop Vault of Power for Nintendo Switch at Nintendo Store. See game details, editions, and availability.

08/10/2026

We're excited to announce Aeronautics Hackathon 2026, a new collaboration between East Sweden Game and Saab, bringing creative thinking into the aerospace industry.

Game developers, designers, engineers and students are invited to tackle a real challenge from Saab's aeronautics business: developing a planning tool for a production environment.

Use game engines, AI, 3D technology or something entirely different. The choice is yours. We're looking for fresh perspectives and unexpected solutions.

Kickoff at ESG Summit: 19 November�Hackathon: 28 November, Spektrum, Linköping�Final: 10 December

What happens when two worlds that rarely meet start solving problems together? We can't wait to find out.

Learn more and sign up:

Take on a real challenge from Saab and explore how game tech, 3D, visualization, simulation, interaction, AI and software development can help shape the production environments of the future.

10/09/2026

👉 IIIIT'S.... THURSDAY! 👈

As always, fun things happen. 🥳

🕛 **12:00 DevLunch at Laszlos Ebbepark** - Whether you are an ESG member or just curious about the game dev community, this is a great place to join up for some good chitchat about what's happening. Good food too! 🍛

🕓 **16:00 Thursday Fika: Epic Games' Mattias Jansson on LORE** - We are proud to welcome Epic Games technical director Mattias Jansson, who will spill the beans on LORE, the brand new version control system developed by Epic. Don't miss it!

21/08/2026

Yesterday, we welcomed a new group of students from Valla Game Education to East Sweden Game!

They toured our facilities, met local game developers and got an introduction to the region’s game community. Nightjar Collective presented their democratic publishing model.

We look forward to working closely with the students throughout their studies - and to seeing the exciting new games they create.

11/08/2026

A month ago we celebrated the launch of Romestead together with Beartwigs, Three Friends and the East Sweden Game community.

What an evening it turned out to be! 🍹

Three acts. Great food. Amazing people. Roman outfits. Karaoke. Countless laughs. Most importantly, a chance to celebrate an incredible achievement by one of our local game studios.

Congratulations once again to the entire Beartwigs team on an amazing launch. We're proud to have you as part of the East Sweden Game community. ❤️

10/08/2026

Från Linköping till miljoner spelare världen över.

Pugstorm, studion bakom spelsuccén Core Keeper, är ett exempel på hur den framgångsrika spelmiljön vuxit fram i Östergötland.

För Pugstorm har närheten till Linköpings universitet varit viktig – ungefär hälften av företagets cirka 40 medarbetare är civilingenjörer därifrån. Samtidigt har East Sweden Game skapat en miljö där spelstudios kan växa, mötas och samarbeta.

I dag har Core Keeper över fem miljoner användare världen över – och från basen i Linköping fortsätter Pugstorm att utveckla nya spel för en internationell marknad.

Läs mer om Pugstorms resa - länk i kommentaren!

26/06/2026

Romestead has now sold over 400 000 copies in its first month on Steam!

Developed by the Linköping-based studio Beartwigs, the game has become one of Sweden’s biggest indie success stories of the year.

Huge congratulations to the entire Beartwigs team - and of course everyone at their publisher Three Friends on this incredible achievement.

We’re proud to have followed your journey from the very beginning and can’t wait to see where Romestead goes next. ❤️