{"id":1761,"date":"2026-05-30T12:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:28:24","slug":"finlands-role-as-global-gaming-player-is-safe-because-of-these-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"Finland&#8217;s role as global gaming player is safe because of these guys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If I say big Finnish cultural exports, you might think Moomins, Marimekko and perhaps heavy rockers Lordi of Eurovision fame. But something else far exceeds them all. The Finnish gaming industry is worth billions of euros, and many young Finns are tempted by a career creating computer games. Kanaani University in Northen Finland started teaching gamin as long as 20 years ago. Here is my report for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BEVANGER-Gaming-degree-Finland.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I say big Finnish cultural exports, you might think Moomins, Marimekko and perhaps heavy rockers Lordi of Eurovision fame. But something else far exceeds them all. The Finnish gaming industry is worth billions of euros, and many young Finns are tempted by a career creating computer games. Kanaani University in Northen Finland started teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}