25 years of covering games: My views of then and now
This is one of those posts where you get to hear a lot of what I think about gaming, from my own perspective. As...
Angry Birds maker Rovio bringing its ToonsTV cartoon app to Apple TV
Angry Birds mobile game publisher Rovio is announcing today that its ToonsTV animated cartoon channel is flying to the Apple TV platform. The move...
Angry Birds’ maker Rovio announces new CEO as company awaits release of feature movie in 2016
(Reuters) — Rovio, maker of hit mobile phone game Angry Birds, said on Wednesday chief executive Pekka Rantala would step down after just a...
Shakira’s new Love Rocks game with Rovio will have … no birds
Rovio teased more tidbits about the mobile game it’s working on with pop star Shakira. And the title coming from the maker of Angry...
Angry Birds maker Rovio teases Shakira partnership
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...
Sonic the Hedgehog zooms into Angry Birds Epic
Sonic the Hedgehog has been a gaming icon for decades, and now he’s lending his powers to Rovio’s Angry Birds brand. The Finnish tech...
Rovio cutting up to 260 jobs — Angry Birds studio admits ‘doing too many things’
Angry Birds creator Rovio today announced a major rounds of job losses as the studio admits it’s been doing “too many things.” Despite the...
Rovio reveals the key to Angry Birds’ success: brand partners
Rovio Chief Commercial Officer Alex Lambeek lays out the success of Angry Birds as a marathon of cross-pollination with multiple brands and business partners.
How Angry Birds publisher Rovio maximizes organic installs via A/B testing
App store optimization just got harder. Fortunately, it also just got easier. App developers are now using A/B testing and optimization to improve not...
Angry Birds 2 hits 20M downloads in its first week
Angry Birds 2 has turned into a big hit. Rovio Entertainment announced the mobile game has been downloaded more than 20 million times in its...