Angry Birds Star Wars plays off of both franchise’s strengths (review)

Angry Birds Star Wars offers a clever take on the familiar Angry Birds gameplay with a fun Star Wars flavor.

Angry Birds Star Wars tests just how far those funny birds can fly (interview)

Rovio is figuring out how it will reach its next billion game downloads -- and how to become a huge entertainment brand.

Get your very own Angry Birds Visa debit card

Rovio Entertainment's Angry Birds is going everywhere, including the prepaid-debit-card market.

Zynga is vastly undervalued

How can a company that brings in $1.2 billion a year, and recently cut costs in order to achieve profitability, have a market value that's effectively zero? It doesn't make sense. Here's why Zynga is undervalued -- provided it does the right thing next.

Threeview: Bad Piggies reviewed by a critic, an analyst, and an academic

Three different reviews, three totally different perspectives on the follow-up to casual gaming king Angry Birds.

Rovio: Star Wars Angry Birds ‘is the best Angry Birds we’ve ever done’

Rovio and Lucasfilm have officially partnered to bring the anger-prone fowl to Tatooine, the Death Star, and more. The developer will also have Angry Birds Star Wars merchandise in retailers by the end of the month.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Cliff Bleszinski, Skylanders Giants, and alleged racism at Kixeye

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Rovio teases a Star Wars-themed Angry Birds

Rovio and LucasFilm appear to be teaming up to bring a Jedi-branded version of the popular physics game to fruition.

Bad Piggies is a painfully challenging departure from Angry Birds (review)

Bad Piggies is far more difficult than Angry Birds ... but is it too hard for the casual gamer?

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Valve acquisition rumors, ‘Threeview,’ and Black Ops II

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Check out this amazing augmented-reality Angry Birds game

Iran-based PendAR developed an amazing augmented reality version of Rovio's hugely popular mobile games.

Angry Birds developer’s Bad Piggies looks a lot like Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

The Angry Birds spin off may look like that popular smartphone game, but it has a lot in common with a platformer for the Xbox 360.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Richard Garriott, PAX Prime 2012, and insane Japanese commercials

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Angry Birds ride their bicycle in support of annual AIDS charity event

Rovio is helping to support a good cause by dressing an angry bird like a legendary rock-n-roll star.

Samsung brings motion-controlled Angry Birds to Smart TVs, announces massive 75″ set

You’ve likely played Angry Birds across several different platforms by now, but you haven’t played it like this: Samsung today announced that it will be bringing the uber popular game to its Smart TVs with motion controls.

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Angry Birds follow-up Amazing Alex tops app charts after just one day

So much for the sophomore slump. Amazing Alex, publisher Rovio's follow-up to its mega-hit Angry Birds, is already claiming the top spot in Apple's app store.