That Angry Birds is set on a tropical island may be escapism. Rovio's offices are in Espoo, a 20-minute drive west of Helsinki. The dark-grey tower that houses Rovio is on a quayside, but the sea is ...

Peter Grimm has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. Since 2011, he has channeled that passion into writing about games, culminating in his current role as a writer and editor for ...

It's seems fitting that, at a time when Angry Bird's rise to prominence has been highlighted on these very pages, Rovio should detail just how close the game came to being scrapped. Speaking during ...

Everybody knows the story of Angry Birds. A slow starter, the original game in the franchise was Rovio's 52nd crack of the whip and, eventually, proved to be the game that made the Finnish studio its ...

Like the Canadian goose, Rovio’s Angry Birds are making a big move to a more hospitable region. Developer Rovio Entertainment revealed today that it is partnering with megaconglomerate Alibaba and the ...

Well that didn’t take long. It’s only been three days since Rovio teased us with the possibility of an Angry Birds Star Wars game, and today, it’s official. Rovio has announced that they will be ...

Earlier this year, Sega surprised many by announcing that it was entering into a 706 million Euro deal to acquire Rovio, mobile game developers and keepers of the Angry Birds franchise. This week, ...

Shareholders of Finland's Rovio, creator of the Angry Birds franchise, have overwhelmingly accepted Japanese Sega's offer to buy the company, allowing the deal to go through, the Finnish company said ...

Interesting. See that thing up there? That’s Roku. It’s a nice, inexpensive, internet-connected box that you hook up to your TV. Once it’s set up, you can use it to stream movies and TV shows from the ...

Angry Birds is no longer a dominant force in mobile gaming, but developer Rovio has enlisted the help of LEGO to rebuild the franchise. A line of tie-in LEGO sets will go on sale next spring to ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish mobile games and animation company Rovio Entertainment is stepping up its hunt for new hit games by opening a studio in London to focus on multiplayer games that would not ...