Pelit ("Games") is a Finnish video games magazine published in Helsinki, Finland.
Pelaaja ("Gamer") is a Finnish video games magazine published 11 times a year by H-Town. Pelaaja turned 15 years old in 2017. Pelaaja covers both PCs and consoles, although between 2003 and 2007 it focused only on consoles. During that time the PC coverage was in a separate magazine named PCPelaaja, now defunct. Its editor-in-chief was Miika Huttunen, who is the current editor-in-chief of Pelaaja.
Harri Sakari Vaalio, also known by his artist name Wallu, is a Finnish cartoonist. He is known for his strip Punaniska comic albums and his strips in Finnish magazines such as the Mikrokivikausi strip in the computer magazine MikroBitti. He has also written and drawn 12 Winnie the Pooh stories for the Finnish Winnie the Pooh magazine in 1986–1988. His other comics includes Hessu-kissa (1985–), Armas, also known as Lämsänperäläiset (1977–), and KyöPelit (1993–). In the early 1980s he was a teacher in the local elementary school, now known as Vuokkoharjun ala-aste.
Miika Huttunen is the editor-in-chief of the Finnish gaming magazine Pelaaja. Prior to this he was a host of certain game-related television programmes primarily on the now defunct MoonTV cable channel. He became recognised for hosting Peliuutiset and continued hosting related topics on the more important shows such as Player and PC-Peliluola. He also hosted URL, infamously one of the last 15-minute shows on the channel alongside current editor-in-chief of Pelaaja, Thomas Puha. Unlike all other shows that Huttunen was in, URL was dedicated to the showing off and reviewing and/or insulting of web sites sent by fans.
Elias Poutanen is a former host/computer-game critic. He has worked for the magazine Pelaaja and for a number of related television programmes. Though officially a Finnish citizen, he was born in Australia.
Tilt is a Finnish video gaming programme aired primarily on MTV3. It started out in 1997 on MTV3 and was also seen on Sub, Jim, Fox and briefly on Nelonen. Currently the programme is aired on Kutonen. Tilt.tv was originally hosted by Jaana Pelkonen, who more recently hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki together with Mikko Leppilampi. After Pelkonen the host was Anna-Maija Jalkanen from 2005 to the spring of 2007 after Jalkanen the host was Kristiina Wheeler from 2007 to 2008, and after Wheeler the host was Anni Uusivirta from 2011 to 2013. The current host is Martina Kuitto. Simo Kurki hosted alongside Kuitto from 2013 to 2015. The show has had continuing success and has been exported to Poland and other countries.
Lost Secret of the Rainforest is an educational adventure game developed by Sierra On-Line in 1993 for the MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus. The game designer is Gano Haine and unlike the first game Jane Jensen was not involved in creating the second game, having moved on to create the Gabriel Knight series.
Pirates! Gold is a 1993 computer game, a remake to Sid Meier's 1987 release, Sid Meier's Pirates!.
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Deluxe is part of the Railroad Tycoon series, and was released in 1993.
Beyond the Red Line was a total conversion for the game FreeSpace 2, based on the reimagined TV show Battlestar Galactica. It allows players to fly into combat as either a Colonial Viper pilot or a Cylon raider.
C-lehti ('C-magazine') was a Finnish computer magazine targeted specifically at Commodore computers. It was in circulation between 1987 and 1992.
Tero Tiitu is a Finnish floorball player currently playing for EräViikingit of the F-liiga.
Tim Väyrynen is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liechtensteiner club Vaduz in the Swiss Challenge League.
Risto J. Hieta, also known by the pseudonym Nordic or Nordic the Incurable, is a Finn connected with the role playing and computer game culture.
In the Korisliiga, the top Finnish professional basketball league, two awards are considered the Most Valuable Player award. The first, the Player of the Year, goes to the best Finnish player in the league. The second, is the Best Foreigner.
Otto Rauhala is a Finnish professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing for Tappara of the Finnish Liiga. Rauhala's role is mostly being the stocky Harri Kirvesniemi-like bulldog.
Joose Antonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who currently plays with KooKoo of the Liiga.
Atte Sihvonen is a Finnish footballer who plays as a defender for Haka.
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