May 7th, 2013
One of the frustrating things about playing Angry Birds games on different devices is the lack of synchronisation across them: scores, unlocked levels and so on.
Now Rovio is changing that with a new...
April 30th, 2013
Facebook game Angry Birds Friends will launch on iOS and Android this Thursday (May 2). Angry Birds Friends was launched in February 2012 as a collaboration between Facebook and Rovio. It has since picked...
April 19th, 2013
Rovio has appointed Jami Laes as its new EVP of Games, with his role including a focus on international development in China and Japan for the Angry Birds developer.
Laes joins from EA's Playfish social...
April 18th, 2013
MinoMonsters has raised $2m in funding and signed up with Hollywood agency William Morris to help it move beyond games and into entertainment. TechCrunch reports that the William Morris deal is aimed at...
April 3rd, 2013
Rovio has published its financial results for 2012, revealing that its revenues increased 101% year-on-year to €152.2m, while its net profits grew 57% to €55.5m.
The Angry Birds games attracted...
March 12th, 2013
Rovio has announced that its Angry Birds Toons series of animated shorts will make its long-awaited debut on the weekend of 16-17 March, with the company's own apps the key element in the cartoon's distribution.
An...
March 8th, 2013
The original Angry Birds game is now free for iOS users, with the title being named App of the Week on the App Store for good measure. Rovio hasn’t spoken about the decision, which is presumably intended...
February 27th, 2013
Rovio’s Angry Birds Toons animated cartoon will debut online on March 16. The company said that new episodes of the show would be released weekly from that date, promising that Toons would throw the...
February 18th, 2013
Rovio's recently-announced deal with Penguin will see seven new Angry Birds books published this year, but books aren't just a licensing spin-off for the Finnish company.
It has an in-house team focusing...
