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Rovio rebranding Casey's Contraptions as "Amazing Alex"

by Mike Schramm (May 11th, 2012)

We're hearing a little more every day about Rovio's next big mobile title. Originally, we thought that the game would be a truly original release, but that's not quite the case: The company has instead bought the rights to Casey's Contraptions, a really excellent iOS title that came out last ...

Confirmed: Rovio acquires rights to Casey's Contraptions

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2012)

Rovio's Ville Heijari has confirmed the rumor we heard yesterday is true, and Rovio is taking over the iOS Casey's Contraptions title from developers Noel Llopis and Miguel A. Friginal. We're still not sure what the exact business agreement is, but it sounds like an acquisition of all rights ...

Rumor: Rovio's new game is Casey's Contraptions

by Mike Schramm (May 9th, 2012)

148Apps has done a little bit of digging, and has possibly discovered what Angry Birds creators Rovio are up to next. Rovio recently released a thank you/teaser video for a full billion Angry Birds downloads, and in the very end of that video, a character appears: It's a younger kid, with some ...

The Physics of Angry Birds updated for Space

by Mike Schramm (Mar 29th, 2012)

Ah, remember the early days of Angry Birds? Back when we were still fascinated by those frustrated feathered creatures and the hogs they so vehemently want to take down? That's when writer and physicist Rhett Allain published his original "Physics of Angry Birds" article, which used the ...

Rovio Entertainment acquires Futuremark Games Studio

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 27th, 2012)

Rovio is on fire right now. Last week, it launched Angry Birds Space and logged an impressive ten million downloads in three three days. Now, the company announced it has used some of its cash to acquire benchmark software maker Futuremark Games Studio, says a report in Venture Beat. Mikael ...

Angry Birds: Space logs 10 million downloads in 3 days

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 26th, 2012)

As spotted by The Verge, Rovio said in a Monday morning tweet that it recorded 10 million downloads of its Angry Birds Space in just three days. This is one of several recent iOS-related app milestones. Earlier this month, the iOS App Store climbed to 25 billion total downloads and the new ...

Angry Birds Space now available for the Mac, iPhone and iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 22nd, 2012)

Today is a big day for Rovio. Angry Birds Space, the fourth spinoff of the Angry Birds series, is now available on multiple platforms including iOS and OS X. You can download the US$2.99 iPad version and the 99-cent iPhone version from the iTunes App Store. The $4.99 Mac version is also now ...

The Daily hints at iPhone version

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 21st, 2012)

Speaking to Venture Beat, Greg Clayman, the publisher of the iPad-only newspaper The Daily, hinted at a forthcoming version of its newspaper app for the iPhone. Clayman said a scaled-down Daily might just look like its recently released standalone guide to Angry Birds Space. The Daily's team ...

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 ...

Rovio announces Angry Birds Space, coming March 22

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2012)

Just when you thought they were finally done -- they're coming back again. Rovio has announced that it will be releasing Angry Birds Space, and unfortunately, all we know about it, per the strange teaser trailer below, is that it'll be out on March 22. Presumably, this is just another iteration on ...

No Comment: Rovio exec's wife dresses up Angry Birds style

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2011)

In these pics over at the Hollywood Reporter, you can clearly see Peter Vesterbacka, the CEO of Rovio, who you may remember from his speech earlier this year at GDC 2011. The woman he's pictured with is none other than his wife, Teija Vesterbacka, who, according to the pictures, looks like a ...

Rovio reportedly turns down $2.25 billion from Zynga

by Mike Schramm (Nov 28th, 2011)

We're pretty late in the year, but this might be one of the craziest stories of 2011 -- according to sources, Angry Birds developer Rovio turned down a deal with social game company Zynga, to the tune of $2.25 billion. That's right, billion with a B, and they turned it down. I actually believe ...

Angry Birds hits 350 million downloads

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 13th, 2011)

Angry Birds continues its explosive growth. Almost 21 months after its December 2009 launch, the bird-flinging game now boasts of 350 million downloads and over 300 million minutes of gameplay each day. And its merchandising side is seeing similar gains. According to Andrew Stalbow, Rovio's ...

Angry Birds' Rovio aiming for $1.2 billion valuation

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2011)

Rovio, the development company behind the insanely popular iOS game property Angry Birds, is working on getting more funding. A deal is reportedly underway that would put the value of the studio at $1.2 billion. That's billion with a freakin' B, which is an astronomical number for a mobile game ...

Apple updates its response to Lodsys suit, but doesn't move to invalidate patents

by Chris Rawson (Jul 27th, 2011)

Apple has updated its proposed answer to the Lodsys suit against third-party developers. Lodsys has recently expanded its patent suit to include big-name iOS developers like Rovio (of Angry Birds), EA, Atari, Take-Two Interactive and Square-Enix, according to The Mac Observer. Florian Mueller ...