Nook Color first to offer Angry Birds with location-based extras
Barnes & Noble said Tuesday its Nook Color e-reader and tablet would be the first device to offer a real-world tie-in to the insanely popular...
Angry Birds developer acquires animation studio Kombo
Rovio, the Helsinki-based developer of gaming sensation Angry Birds, announced Wednesday it had acquired Finnish animation studio Kombo for an undisclosed amount of cash...
Angry Birds to invade TVs this summer with Roku
Yes, Angry Birds is now officially everywhere. Streaming video set-top box maker Roku has announced that it’s partnering with game maker Rovio to bring...
Week in review: A first look at Google’s Music Beta
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Google’s Music Beta...
Angry Birds flutters over to Chrome
Google is bringing Rovio‘s Angry Birds, a popular game on mobile devices where players fling birds at structures to try to destroy pigs, to...
Angry Birds hits 140M downloads, poised for growth in China
Rovio‘s Angry Birds mobile game has been downloaded more than 140 million times since its release 16 months ago. The game maker said it...
Angry Birds Rio hits 10 million downloads in 10 days
Game maker Rovio announced that its Angry Birds Rio game hit 10 million downloads on mobile phones in just 10 days. That’s a new...
Angry Birds maker may go public in the coming years
Rovio just raised $42 million in venture capital funding a week ago. But the developer of the hot Angry Birds mobile game says it...
Angry Birds’ Vesterbacka: Tablets are killing console games (video)
Frequent VentureBeat readers already know that Peter Vesterbacka, who leads business development at the company behind mobile gaming hit Angry Birds, thinks that mobile...
Amazon grabs exclusive on Angry Birds Rio for Android phones
The Amazon Appstore will offer exclusive downloads for the upcoming Angry Birds Rio game for Android phones. The new game from Rovio will be...