Tagged: Angry Birds & News
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Angry Birds maker Rovio hires new EVP to lead game development News
19.04.2013 Angry Birds maker Rovio Entertainment has added a new executive vice-president of games to its flock, Jami Laes. -
Angry Birds maker Rovio flying high on 101pc revenue increase News
04.04.2013 Angry Birds creator Rovio has something to crow about: a 101pc increase in total consolidated full-year revenue, thanks to growth in games revenue and sales of consumer... -
Angry Birds hits 1.7bn downloads – cartoon coming to TV, smartphones and tablets News
11.03.2013 Angry Birds creator Rovio is to bring its weekly animated series Angry Birds Toons to tablets, smartphones and TV stations this weekend. CEO Michael Hed also revealed the games... -
Speed up the mobile web – smartphone users will switch off after eight seconds News
13.02.2013 Smartphone users require speedy download times or they will abandon the effort, new research reveals, placing the onus on brands and site owners to come up with mobile-optimised... -
Rovio splashes out on watery update to Angry Birds Space News
10.01.2013 Thirty new water-themed levels known collectively as Pig Dipper are inhabiting the Angry Birds Space galaxy in Rovio's latest update to the game. -
Angry Birds tops 8m downloads on Christmas Day News
04.01.2013 Angry Birds maker Rovio had something to celebrate this holiday season: more than 8m downloads of the game on Christmas Day alone and 30m downloads during Christmas week (22-29... -
Parents told to beware of hidden dangers in kids’ smartphone and tablet apps News
20.12.2012 Kids are going gaga for smartphones and tablet computers this Christmas, but a security expert has warned that parents need to be wary of apps that are capable of gathering data... -
Despicable Me’s John Cohen to produce Angry Birds movie News
11.12.2012 Despicable Me producer John Cohen has been catapulted into the role of producer for the upcoming Angry Birds movie. -
SongPop is a hit in Facebook’s top 25 social games of 2012 News
05.12.2012 Calling it the most diverse and global year for social games to date, Facebook has revealed its 25 top-rated social games of 2012, with SongPop coming straight in at No 1. -
Angry Birds Star Wars hits hyperspace and goes to the top of US and UK app charts News
09.11.2012 After launching yesterday, Rovio’s Angry Birds Star Wars game has already gone to the top of the US and UK iOS App Store charts.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps Zone, Apps -
Rovio goes trick or tweeting with Halloween-themed Angry Birds (video) News
26.10.2012 To celebrate the year’s spookiest holiday (and because there isn’t a theme these birds won’t latch onto), Rovio has introduced a new episode for Angry Birds Seasons, plus a... -
May the birds be with you: Angry Birds Star Wars coming 8 November (video) News
08.10.2012 Rovio has hit upon a merchandising goldmine in the form of Angry Birds Star Wars, set for release on 8 November (and perhaps developed a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away).Categories: Games/Entertainment, Apps -
Bad Piggies shoots to No 1 in App Store three hours after release News
28.09.2012 Just over three hours after it launched in the US, Rovio’s Angry Birds spin-off Bad Piggies reached the top spot in the iTunes App Store, with a launch that could rival the...Categories: Games/Entertainment, Apps -
Move over Angry Birds, now it’s the Bad Piggies’ turn to play (video) News
20.09.2012 If you play any of the games in Rovio’s wildly successful Angry Birds series, you’ll know that pigs are the egg-stealing bad guys. But now, in its ‘piggest’ game ever, Rovio is...Categories: Games/Entertainment, Apps -
Angry Birds hijack NASA’s Curiosity rover (video) News
24.08.2012 In Red Planet, the latest episode in Angry Birds Space, Rovio’s kamikaze birds shoot off to Mars for an adventure involving the Curiosity rover. Now we know curiosity killed the... -
Green Day pig out for new Angry Birds Friends game (video) News
21.08.2012 Pop-punk band Green Day have been transformed into adversaries of the famous Angry Birds for a new game from the Facebook app. -
The week in gadgets: a physical controller for Angry Birds (video) News
13.08.2012 A look at gadget happenings, as Panasonic’s latest mirrorless interchangeable lens camera makes its debut, Denon bring us a wireless speaker that’s not married to just one...Categories: Week in Gadgets, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Development, Consumer Tech -
Samsung brings motion-controlled Angry Birds to smart TVs News
03.08.2012 Samsung has introduced an Angry Birds app for its range of smart TVs. Developed by Rovio, the app lets smart TV viewers play the popular pig-destroying game using gestures... -
Amazing Alex, Rovio’s follow-up to Angry Birds, has finally arrived News
12.07.2012 We've been waiting for this one for awhile! Amazing Alex, a new puzzle game from the creators of Angry Birds which involves creating contraptions out of household objects, is... -
Angry Birds continues world takeover – next stop: PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo 3DS News
11.07.2012 Activision and Rovio are teaming up to bring the extremely popular game Angry Birds to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo 3DS consoles.Tags: Games, Gaming, Consoles, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Kinect, Nintendo, Angry Birds, Activision, Rovio,