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Sega Acquires Angry Birds Developer For $776 Million
SEGA has acquired Finnish Rovio Entertainment, behind the popular Angry Birds mobile games for a total of $776 million. Rovio Acquired by Sega Japan Sega Sammy Holdings INC has officially signed a deal to fully acquire the Finnish development studio Rovio Entertainment for a total of $776 million. Rovio are…
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Angry Birds Maker Rovio Shuts Down London Office
Rovio Shut Down London Studio Back in 2008, Rovio was nothing more than a fringe games studio. Having failed to find any real footing in the gaming market, in 2009 they launched Angry Birds and everything changed. Since then we have seen various sequels, tie-ins, merchandise, cartoons, and even a full-blown…
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Rovio to Cut Over a Third of the Workforce
Why is it, when I think of Rovio and cutbacks, I imagine the big bosses sitting on their perch and throwing stuffed birds at the workforce to determine who leaves? Just me? Okay! The studio of the massive mobile gaming hit, Angry Birds, has announced their huge cut of 260…
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Angry Bird Consumers Irritated With In-App Purchases
Nothing looks after your credit card more than those Godfather birds within the image above, anyway, angry Birds 2 has been downloaded an astonishing 10 million times as of writing, if there was a formula for an App which tapped into consumerism as successfully as both this game and Candy…
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Angry Birds Developer Rovio Lays off 110 Employees
It’s no surprise that the company that found luck with the insane success of Angry Birds has started to lay off employees. Despite being the most downloaded mobile game of all time, Angry Birds is a simple game, with a simple concept, a game that arguably got in early and captured the…
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Angry Birds Go! Flings Over 100M Downloads
Rovio Entertainment has announced that Angry Birds Go!, the company’s free-to-play kart racer has topped over 100 million downloads. Rovio has now announced that the team will be adding multiplayer abilities to the game in its latest update. Angry Birds Go! now supports three players versing one another, while the…
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Angry Birds Website Hacked And Defaced After NSA Leaks
Last week we reported that the NSA were spying on peoples mobile games such as Angry Birds, using security flaws in software to obtain personal data and get up to all the other nonsense we’ve heard about the NSA in recent months… I’m sure you’re more than familiar with their…
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