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...
Angry Birds maker predicts the death of console gaming
Peter Vesterbacka, whose company Rovio makes the immensely popular Angry Birds game, has a big vision for the future of mobile gaming. Vesterbacka leads...
Week in review: Epic Games shows off amazing graphics
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Epic Games shows...
How the Angry Birds deal could lead to mobile gaming nirvana
The $42 million investment in Angry Birds creator Rovio could be a watershed event for mobile games. The deal shows that at least one...
Skype founder, others catapult $42M to Angry Birds
Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures have co-led a $42 million investment round for Rovio, the creator of the Angry Birds Franchise. The Angry Birds...
Angry Birds will slingshot themselves onto Facebook
Angry Birds, the mobile game phenomenon created by Finland’s Rovio, is headed to Facebook in the next month. The Angry Birds fan page on...
Popular places to play mobile games: in the car and on the toilet
Everyone assumes that people play mobile games while they’re on the run, but the reality is that mobile game users are seven times more...
Angry Birds get Super Bowl appearance and Android SMS payments
Angry Birds developer Rovio announced today that you will see Angry Birds characters appear in a Super Bowl commercial advertising the Rio animated film....
New version of Angry Birds game will tie into animated movie Rio
The Angry Birds juggernaut continues. The mobile game has been downloaded tens of millions of times in the past year and it has broken...