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Angry Birds maker Rovio teases Shakira partnership

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Shakira is going to be part of Rovio’s Angry Birds family. That’s not so easy to do, as her hips don’t lie, and the Angry Birds cartoon characters don’t actually have hips.

In any case, Rovio just shared a new video on YouTube that hints at the coming partnership with Shakira. In the video, Rovio marketing executive Peter Vesterbacka, also known as the Mighty Eagle, sits at a table with some company people who are brainstorming game ideas. One comes up with “Angry Cows,” and he is unceremoniously ordered out of the room.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.