Angry Birds maker buys Finnish gaming studio
Angry Birds maker Rovio has bought Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming arm of Finnish benchmarking software firm Futuremark, for an undisclosed sum. full story
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Profit Up for Angry Birds Maker
Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish company that created the Angry Birds mobile game franchise, said net profit in 2012 was up 57% over the prior year as demand for its games and licensed merchandise continued to grow.
wsj.com (1 month and 21 days ago)
Rovio, DreamWorks to Launch 'The Croods' Mobile Game March 14
Finnish game maker Rovio, maker of Angry Birds, has teamed up with DreamWorks Animation for an all-new mobile game based on the studio's upcoming animated movie The Croods.
pcmag.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
Angry Birds Will Never Die. Now There's A Movie In The Works.
Sony announced today that it has won worldwide distribution rights to the upcoming Angry Birds movie which is slated to hit theaters July 1, 2016. Apparently several studios were vying for the rights. In a press release Sony Pictures Entertainment's co-chairmen Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal said: Every studio in town would love to add Angry Birds to their slate. There are...
forbes.com (9 days ago)
How Does ‘Angry Birds’ Maker Rovio Compare With Disney?
As "Angry Birds" maker Rovio ventures more into licensing and theme parks, it's transforming more into Disney and away from being a game maker.
wsj.com (1 month and 18 days ago)
'Angry Birds Toons' to Start Airing
'Angry Birds' maker Rovio plans to release its first-ever animated series this week across mobile devices, TV channels, connected TVs and streaming-media boxes, the clearest sign yet the popular mobile-game maker believes its future is in becoming an entertainment company.
wsj.com (2 months and 15 days ago)
Why does Angry Birds have a vice president of book publishing?
Sanna Lukander explains why print books are more than a licensing sideline for RovioIt should come as no surprise that there are official Angry Birds books, given its evolution into a brand spanning toys, clothing, sweets and hundreds of other products.What may be more surprising is that Rovio doesn't simply license Angry Birds out to publishers and leave the details to...
guardian.co.uk (3 months and 5 days ago)
TechBit: ‘Angry Birds Friends’ makes the popular game competitive
The Angry Birds franchise has taken us plenty of places. We’ve flung birds in Rio and in a galaxy far, far away, but now game-maker Rovio is attacking an entirely new frontier: the competitive arena. “Angry Birds Friends” taps your into your network of Facebook friends to offer a new dimension to its familiar game. Users can play weekly tournaments with their friends with...
washingtonpost.com (13 days ago)
Angry Birds maker sees profits surge
Mobile game developer Rovio Entertainment Ltd. says the popular Angry Birds franchise helped it double revenue in 2012, with net profit surging more than 55 percent to 55.5 million euros ($71.2 million).
philly.com (1 month and 20 days ago)
Angry Birds maker sees profits surge
Mobile game developer Rovio Entertainment Ltd. says the popular Angry Birds franchise helped it double revenue in 2012, with net profit surging more than 55 percent to 55.5 million euros ($71.2 million).
miamiherald.com (1 month and 20 days ago)
Angry Birds maker sees profits surge
HELSINKI (AP) -- Mobile game developer Rovio Entertainment Ltd. says the popular Angry Birds franchise helped it double revenue in 2012, with net profit surging more than 55 percent to 55.5 million euros ($71.2 million)....
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