Angry Birds developer Rovio reports a strong financial 2012 with consumer products bringing in nearly 45 percent of total revenue.
Angry Birds Space Encounter opens in the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Angry Birds Space Encounter uses the popular mobile game to teach science and more.
Developers can program a game once and stream it instantly to any number of mobile devices.
Angry Birds Star Wars offers a clever take on the familiar Angry Birds gameplay with a fun Star Wars flavor.
Rovio is figuring out how it will reach its next billion game downloads -- and how to become a huge entertainment brand.
Iran-based PendAR developed an amazing augmented reality version of Rovio's hugely popular mobile games.
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Shiny Timeline cover images of mobile and social games like Angry Birds Space, CityVille, and Bejeweled Blitz for your Facebook profile.
Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment reported today that merchandising and licensing revenues accounted for about 30 percent of its sales in 2011.
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Angry Birds Space has been downloaded more than 50 million times in its first 35 days on the market, according to publisher Rovio.
That makes it the fastest-growing mobile game in history. And it means that Rovio hasn’t exhausted its …
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Rovio is betting that it will be a long time before Angry Birds runs out of steam. This fall, the Finnish company will launch a cartoon series for fans of the game.
The company has one of the hottest brands …
Angry Birds publisher Rovio Entertainment has acquired its fellow Finnish game development house, Futuremark Games Studio, in order to get some new talent.
Rovio, which just launched its Angry Birds Space mobile game blockbuster, is buying the game-making division of …
Minecraft, the hit indie open-sandbox game now coming to XBox 360 in May, has made over $80M since it’s beginnings as a company in October 2011, according to a blog post in the Financial Times.
A game that’s been compared …
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With 10 million downloads in three days, Angry Birds Space has vaulted the mobile-game business into the stratosphere of bona fide entertainment blockbusters.
It’s hard to calculate how much money the game has generated because prices range from 99 cents …
Houston, we don’t have a problem. Rovio’s latest Angry Birds game for iOS and Android, this one set in outer space, has received 10 million downloads in just three days, the company announced via its Twitter account Monday morning.
Angry …
Angry Birds Space debuted this week amid some unusual marketing efforts.
In Seattle, Rovio Entertainment and T-Mobile USA took over the Space Needle by creating a 300-foot-long slingshot with a 35-foot-tall Red Bird affixed to the 605-foot-tall tower. Was it …
