Recognitions for Tampere based game developer

Cities: Skylines by Tampere based company Colossal Order has won the 2015 Unity Award! The game developer team has also been recognized locally by the city of Tampere with a technical creativity award.

Cities: Skylines by Colossal Order has won the Golden Cube in the annual Unity Technologies' Unite 2015 Conference held in Boston. The awards are voted on by both Unity Technologies representatives and developers based on nominations. Tampere based Colossal Order was recognized as the best overall project made with Unity in the past year with the Golden Cube -prize.

Cities: Skylines was published in March 2015 for Windows, Linux, Mac and Xbox One. During its first month after the release the game sold a million copies, becoming the all-time best selling game for the publisher, Paradox Interactive.

The Golden Cube winner has also been awarded locally. The City of Tampere awarded Cities : Skylines team with a technical creativity prize. The city of Tampere technical creativity prize 2015 was shared with the team from Modulight who invented a laser for cancer treatments. Read more about the world-class laser by Modulight from Tampere - All Bright! Magazine.

More information:

Colossal Order Oy
Mariina Hallikainen, CEO
p.040 740 7363
press@colossalorder.fi

Modulight Oy
Petteri Uusimaa, CEO
p.040 830 4670
petteri.uusimaa@modulight.com