Big Fish snares an Angry Bird with Wibe Wagemans hire
Wibe Wagemans is trading Angry Birds for Big Fish. Wagemans, the former global brand-building executive (known as the Hummingbird) at Rovio, maker of the...
Angry Birds maker Rovio seeks $1.2B valuation in upcoming funding round
Angry Birds maker Rovio is in the process of a fundraising round that would value the company at $1.2 billion, according to a report...
Rovio finds a partner to get Angry Birds to fly to China
Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, has been puffing its feathery chest lately about moving into China as part of a quest to get...
Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed. As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was...
Cloud-based video games will put pirates out of business
Ever wonder what the gaming world would be like without pirates? That future isn’t too far away, thanks to the advent of cloud-based gaming...
17 reasons to attend GamesBeat 2011
We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2011. But here’s a summary of why we think this will be...