Posts Tagged ‘Rovio’

Rovio Reports €75.4m Revenues over 2011

May 8th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

With hundreds of millions of downloads, business has no doubt been going very well for the Finnish mobile studio Rovio. Yesterday, the studio has shown the success it had in pure cash as it reported €75.5 million in revenues over 2011.

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20 Million Downloads for Angry Birds Space

March 31st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Angry Birds Space has managed to shift past 20 million downloads in the first week online. Of those 20 million, half of the downloads took place in the first three days it was available.

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Rovio Acquires Futuremark Games

March 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following the acquisition of animation studio Kombo, Rovio has made a second acquisition. This time, it took control over Futuremark Games Studio. The gaming branch of 3DMark inventors Futuremark.

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Angry Birds Space Outsells The New iPad

March 26th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A title like that isn’t hard to make of course, given the number of devices the newest title from Rovio can be bought upon, but selling 10 million downloads of a single game in three days remains impressive.

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Rovio Confirms Angry Birds Space for Windows Phone

March 25th, 2012 by Roelof Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

With the second releasewave of the iPad, Rovio also released their highly anticipated Angry Birds Space game. This fourth instalment brings a lot of change to the catapult game as gamers will have to defy gravity now.

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The Angry Birds Turn Two

December 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Deals | No Comments »

Rovio’s Angry Birds have a reason to celebrate this weekend as the franchise has turned two this weekend. To celebrate, Rovio and Chillingo have updated the Angry Birds and Angry Birds HD games on iOS with 15 new levels and a brand new orange bird to throw around.

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Rovio to Sync Angry Birds Scores

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Rovio has announced Angry Birds Sync. With the new cloud service, consumers can keep track of progress no matter on what hardware they are playing one of the Angry Birds games.

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Amazon Appstore Launches, US Only Though

March 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While European Android users have been drooling over the launchdate of the Amazon Appstore to get their hands on Angry Birds Rio, it seems the mother of all webshops is letting them all down.

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Rovio to Float in NYC

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

After hauling in millions of revenues on Angry Birds and their first funding round, Rovio is planning their next step; filing for an IPO in New York somewhere in the next five years.

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