SEGA to acquire ‘Angry Birds’ creator Rovio for €706 million

SEGA has decided at its Board of Directors meeting on April 17, 2023, to make a tender offer to acquire Rovio Entertainment Oyj, a Finnish mobile game company, through its UK-based wholly-owned subsidiary SEGA Europe Limited. Continue reading “SEGA to acquire ‘Angry Birds’ creator Rovio for €706 million”

For the return of Nokia, HMD global appoints Ex Rovio CEO Pekka Rantala

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HMD global has appointed Pekka Rantala as Chief Marketing Officer to look after the return of Nokia brand of mobile phones and tablets. Continue reading “For the return of Nokia, HMD global appoints Ex Rovio CEO Pekka Rantala”

Angry Birds creator Rovio launches Flappy Bird themed ‘Retry’ game in few countries

Flappy Bird created a lot of buzz in the handheld gaming industry and Angry Birds creator Rovio has decided to use the hype to create a similar game. Rovio has just launched ‘RETRY’ game that looks like Flappy Bird.

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Angry Birds Go updated with new levels and karts

Angry Birds is a name you hear very often these days and sometime back, they launched a racing game – Angry Birds Go. Rovia has updated the Angry Birds Go racing game with new levels and new karts. In addition to new levels and karts, Angry Birds Go Sub Zero, as the expansion pack is called, gets a new winter chilly theme along with new currency.

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Rovio Account now available on iOS and Android

Angry Birds has long been a staple game on most smartphones, and with increasing number of people using it on different device, the necessity of game save transfers were clear. Rovio acknowledged this need, and announced that they are releasing their own cloud service called Rovio account, which can save your game progress with a sign-in, and roam the saves through various devices you use. This has finally launched today, on iOS and Android. Initially supporting only the original Angry Birds and The Croods(which had it already), Rovio promises to work on adding it to all its other games real soon.

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Finnish F1 driver Heikki Kovalainen to sport Angry Birds helmet

F1 Driver Heikki Kovalainen has inked a deal with Rovio and as part of the merchandising and webgame partnership , will be sporting an Angry Birds helmet on the race track. The new helmet will make its debut at the weekend’s inaugural Formula 1 race in Melbourne.

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Angry Birds For WP7 Confirmed, 3D Version Coming Soon

Rovio recently confirmed that, its popular Angry Birds game will arrive soon on the WP7 devices. Peter Vesterbacka also confirmed that, a 3D version of Angry Birds will be launched soon for smartphones with 3D capabilities.

Angry Birds is one of my favorite game and I’m seriously addicted to it. Not only me, but people all over the world love playing this game for countless hours on their smartphones. Angry Birds is already available on iOS, webOS, Android, Maemo and Symbian^3 smartphones, but the Windows Phone 7 users are still dreaming of playing this amazing game on their handsets. Now we have a good news for the Windows Phone 7 users. Rovio recently confirmed that, its popular Angry Birds game will arrive soon on the WP7 devices. Continue reading “Angry Birds For WP7 Confirmed, 3D Version Coming Soon”