Miika Huttunen
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Pelaaja
Pelaaja is a Finnish video games magazine published 12 times a year by H-Town. In the Finnish gaming magazine scene Pelaaja is a relative newcomer, challenging mainly the well-established Pelit magazine. Pelaaja covered both PCs and consoles, but since October 2005 the magazine focuses on...
. Prior to this he was a host of certain game-related television-programmes primarily on the now defunct MoonTV
MoonTV
MoonTV was a free Finnish cable network channel. It started off as a channel for programmes about computer and video games but later grew into a channel covering several areas of youth culture. In its prime it was the first interactive TV channel in the world. At its best MoonTV could reach 1.3...
cable-channel. He became recognised for hosting Peliuutiset (Game News) 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.
Huttunen would later appear as a regular, host and critic on the show Play on Nelonen
Nelonen
Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...
alongside Huttunen and fellow MoonTV host Elias Poutanen
Elias Poutanen
Elias Poutanen was a host/computer-game critic who has worked for a magazine and for a number of related television programmes. Though officially a Finnish citizen he was born in Australia....
. Play was cancelled in 2005. In late 2007 he appeared alongside Puha on the game segments of the program Extra Large on YLE Extra
YLE Extra
YLE Extra was a Finnish television channel owned and operated by YLE, the channel launched on 27 April 2007. It replaced YLE24. YLE Extra ceased broadcasting on 31 December 2007 and it was replaced by YLE TV1+, a temporary channel which broadcasts YLE TV1 with fixed subtitles....
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