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Read More »Smurfs’ Village out-grossing Angry Birds
Amid all the buzz around Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise in recent weeks, something appears to have gone unnoticed this week. It’s being out-grossed by the Smurfs. Specifically, Capcom’s Smurfs’ Village iPhone game is ahead of Angry Birds in both the US and UK App Stores’ Top Grossing Games charts. That’s …
Read More »Seasonal game content becoming an annual trend
Season-specific content high on publishers' digital release plans
Read More »Rovio seeking expansion
Angry Birds studio said to be targeting 100 staff mark in near future
Read More »New Angry Birds sells 1m
Finnish developer Angry Birds has revealed that Angry Birds Halloween, the latest version of its popular mobile game, has sold 1m copies on the Apple App Store after just six days on the market. The download features 45 new levels and is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. …
Read More »Now Angry Birds heads to Nokia
Rovio Mobile might be seizing headlines for the two million downloads of its Angry Birds game on Android this week, but the company is targeting other smartphones too. The full Symbian version of Angry Birds has gone live on Nokia’s Ovi Store, and is available to buy now. Yes, that’s …
Read More »Angry Birds crashes onto Ovi Store
In-app payments coming soon too
Read More »Angry Birds not included in EA deal
Despite nearly all the reports going with the ‘EA buys Angry Birds publisher’ line following its acquisition of Chillingo, it seems that the multi-million selling feathery physics game is not part of the deal. "We did not sell to EA, Chillingo did," tweeted the game’s developer Rovio Mobile tonight. "We …
Read More »Angry Birds dev stays indie as publisher is bought
Electronic Arts acquires Chillingo in a deal put at $20 million
Read More »Angry Birds hits 2m on Android
Rovio, the Finnish studio that realised the App Store dream of turning an indie studio into a world-conquering money-maker, has found new success on Android devices. The studio that saw its full-price Angry Birds game downloaded nearly seven million times on Apple’s App Store, has now passed two million downloads …
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