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Rovio has built a new version of its smartphone games sensation Angry Birds that plays in Flash. Yesterday the Finnish studio took stage at Adobe’s Max event in Los Angeles to demonstrate the game running in Flash Player 11, Adobe’s newest web standard for rich media. Rovio will bring the …

Mobile games giant further expands its platform base

Rovio is the first games developer to bring crowd gaming to the masses with its new Angry Birds title. The new social game will be introduced at the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix. Finnish group Uplause, which has experience of audience entertainment at around 200 events, created the technology for …

Innovative 'crowd game' controlled by audience noise levels

As pilot tests show some 10,000 people spent over 30 minutes playing at Barnes & Noble stores

Fans of Angry Birds can now embarrass themselves with a new range of themed Halloween outfits and headpieces. Costume Discounters is stocking 14 different bird and pig costumes from Rovio’s 350m-selling mobile game franchise, as reported by MacTrast. The costumes are available in both adult and child sizes, with RRPs …

'If it goes ahead it will be different' says Rovio executive

The wheels (or wings) show no signs of falling off the Angry Birds juggernaut anytime soon. Developer Rovio Mobile says its franchise has now generated more than 350 million downloads across all platforms. Are people still playing? Just a bit. General manager Andrew Stalbowtold the TechCrunch Disrupt conferenceyesterday that mobile …

More than one million toys and t-shirts sold each month, Rovio says

Perhaps the biggest coup (or coop?) of today’s introduction for Google+ is the fact the service boasts Angry Birds before Facebook. Earlier this year, Rovio Mobile said its iconic bird physics game would launch on Facebook with new social functions.But it quietly delayed the proposed launch from May without much …