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Bad Piggies gets a ... cookbook

by Mike Schramm (Oct 12th, 2012)

As if our recent exploration of the Angry Birds universe didn't convey the franchise's might, here's another sign. A Bad Piggies cookbook is available. Actually, the hardcover, real-life version of Angry Birds: Bad Piggies' Egg Recipes was out for the holiday season last year, long before the ...

Here's a look at the whole universe of Angry Birds games (so far)

by Mike Schramm (Oct 3rd, 2012)

Bad Piggies is the latest title added to Rovio's growing universe of Angry Birds games, and the latest word is that it's the fastest-selling game in the company's history, hitting number one on the App Store just a few hours after it launched. Given all of the various Angry Birds properties ...

Rovio is making a non-Angry Birds game

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2012)

AllThingsD recently sat down to chat with Rovio CEO Mikael Hed, and while much of the news about Rovio from the past few years has been to do with its enormously popular Angry Birds franchise (the latest title of which will be Angry Birds Space -- stay tuned for more on that next month). But Hed ...

Could the iPad 2 replace traditional video game consoles?

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 15th, 2011)

The iPad 2's new hardware and its popularity has led to speculation that tablet devices will soon replace consoles. Rovio Mobile's Peter Vesterbacka is the most vocal champion of this position and recently claimed during a South by Southwest panel that console games are "dying." Vesterbacka ...

Angry Birds doing a movie tie-in as well

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 31st, 2011)

Hot on the heels of the announcement that Doodle Jump will be working with Universal to promote the upcoming Hop movie, Angry Birds developer Rovio Mobile confirmed it will be producing a new version of Angry Birds set in Rio. This new version will be used to promote the upcoming movie Rio, which ...

DeNA and Rovio Mobile chat from LeWeb '10 in Paris

by Mike Schramm (Dec 9th, 2010)

Stuart Dredge over at MobileEntertainment is reporting live this week from Paris' LeWeb 2010 conference, and quite a few iPhone publishers and developers are in attendance and talking about Apple's platform and beyond. Of the most interest to us are probably the statements by Japanese publishers ...

Angry Birds Christmas to be free upgrade to Halloween edition

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 28th, 2010)

Rovio has a free gift on the way for everyone that ponied up the $0.99 for the Halloween edition of Angry Birds. The promised Christmas edition of the super-addictive mobile game will be a free update for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. @RovioMobile responded to a query on Twitter confirming ...

Rovio Mobile passing on Chillingo in the future

by Mike Schramm (Oct 21st, 2010)

Chillingo closed a huge deal with EA yesterday (becoming the second big iPhone publisher in as many weeks to be picked up), but the company's work with its biggest title apparently left a bad taste in the mouth of the developers, Rovio Mobile. That company tells TechCrunch that they'll never work ...