The Angry Birds movie is coming out May 2016, but that’s too late to save a number of jobs at the company responsible for the early mobile gaming hit.
Rovio, the Finnish publisher that created Angry Birds, revealed today that it has cut 213 jobs. This comes as the result of the “employee negotiations” that the company announced August 26. This will reduce the developer’s costs, but it also means it won’t have the workforce to chase after a plethora of different potential ventures as it has before. In a statement, the company acknowledged that it will have to pare back its ambitions. Most notably, the company attempted to act as a third-party publisher with its Rovio Stars partner program, which never took off.

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