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PopCap also turned down deal 'due to rumours of the company's rescinding share awards'

A new report from The New York Times claims that Angry Birds creators Rovio rebuffed an astonishing $2.25bn takeover offer from Zynga in the summer. The context placed on the revelation is that potentials targets are being scared off by a ruthless corporate culture that, while serving Zynga well on …

'Thousands' of games and apps to be available on the Amazon device

200,000 years of game time accumulated since release, claims Rovio

The mobile game phenomenon Angry Birds will get its own line of retail stores, developer Rovio has announced. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Beijing, Rovio’s chief marketing officer Peter Vesterbacka said the move was partly to tackle piracy in China. He brought a couple of unofficial Angry Birds …

Company must be happy with level of demand and will open stores to accommodate, says CEO

Peter Vesterbacka says the bid will begin 'maybe a year from now'

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

Innovative 'crowd game' controlled by audience noise levels