Tag: Rovio
News Sonic and Angry Birds Join Forces at Last in a Crossover No One Asked For
Five smartphone games see series collide
SEGA purchased Rovio a little while ago now, so it’s a surprise it’s taken this long for Sonic the Hedgehog and Angry Birds to meet. But as of right now, the two franchises have clashed in five smartphone games, through until 21st March. This includes Angry Birds 2,
News SEGA Buys Angry Birds Maker for $775 Million
Angry bids
Update: And just like that, SEGA has purchased Rovio, the mobile developer behind Angry Birds. The final bid is slightly less than had originally been reported: $775 million. Considering the Finnish firm’s turnover totals about $300 million a year, this deal looks like a snip for the Sonic the Hedgehog publisher. As we’re all...
News The Angry Birds Movie 2 Game Drops Asymmetrical Multiplayer on PSVR
Fowl play
Did you know there’s a second movie in the Angry Birds franchise? Nuts, eh? Not only that but XR Games has teamed up with Sony Pictures and Rovio to create The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure – a brand new PlayStation VR title with an emphasis on asymmetrical co-op play. This leverages the hardware’s social screen feature,...
News Angry Birds VR Flies to PlayStation VR This Week
Pigs are back
Remember Angry Birds? It was popular once upon a time – they even made a movie about it, and there’s a-bloody-nother one on the way. Well, there’s good news for fans of fowl flingin’, as Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs is coming to the PlayStation 4 next week. For those of you who haven’t played this, it’s essentially just...
News Rovio Flings Live Action Angry Birds Trilogy Trailer Online
Bigger than ever
We’re not sure what’s more frustrating: the fact that Angry Birds is big enough to warrant a live action video in the first place, or the saccharine sweet nature of the footage itself. Either way, Rovio has released a brand new trailer for Angry Birds Trilogy which is due out on PlayStation 3 later this week. If you’re...
News Angry Birds Trilogy Targets PlayStation 3 This Year
Fowl flinger
As previously teased, Activision will be tossing an updated version of Rovio’s popular mobile title Angry Birds onto the PlayStation 3 this year. The Move-enabled re-release – entitled the Angry Birds Trilogy – will collate the original Angry Birds with Angry Birds: Seasons and Angry Birds: Rio. “You can think of the game as...
News Angry Birds Space Could Come to PlayStation Vita
Rovio leaving it up to Sony
Angry Birds is unsurprisingly one of the best selling PlayStation Minis in the platform’s history. While the title suffered from numerous frame-rate issues when running on the PSP, the title still garnered tremendous success. (Go look at its number of ratings on the PlayStation Store and you’ll see what we mean.) A...
News Angry Birds Scoops Up Over 350 Million Downloads
Regular readers will know we're not the biggest fans of Angry Birds, but even we have to tip our hat to Rovio's latest sales figures for the fowl flinging application
The developer's general manager, Andrew Stalbow, has confirmed in an interview with Venturebeat that the title has surpassed a whopping 350 million downloads, with users playing the...
News Apparently Angry Birds Is The Most Downloaded Game On PlayStation Network
It seems not enough people paid attention to our 1/4 review of Angry Birds
Reports suggest that the over hyped, Rovio developed casual game has jumped straight to the top of the PlayStation Network's downloads chart. This is an atrocity. "PSN appears to be gaining traction tapping into the casual and social gaming market with titles such as...
News Angry Birds Launches On PlayStation Minis This Week
For all the hyperbole that's spewed about iOS being the future of handheld gaming, we don't really feel like its catalogue is all that special
You've got a stream of clunky rip-offs from Gameloft, plenty of games trying to make do with no buttons, and then the critical darlings: Doodle Jump, Angry Birds and Cut The Rope. All three titles are...
News Angry Birds Heads To PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3
One of the iPhone's most popular games, Angry Birds, is set to hit the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3
That's according to developer Rovio's co-founder, Joe Wee. He told The Sun: When it was released last December Angry Birds made a slow start but as word got round, everyones gone crazy for it. We are also releasing it on Nintendo DS,...
