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Rovio, the developer of Angry Birds

Rovio is a Finnish developer, writer, distributor of video video games and is an leisure corporation situated in Espoo, Finland. The organisation was founded in 2003 as a cellular game development studio and is pleasant known for growing the Angry Birds franchise.

In 2003, three students from Helsinki University of Technology (currently Aalto University School of Science), Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim Dikert, participated in a mobile recreation improvement opposition on the Assembly demo birthday party backed through Nokia and HP. A victory with a multiplayer sport referred to as King of the Cabbage World led the trio, in conjunction with Niklas Hed's cousin Mikael Hed, to set up their own corporation, Relude. King of the Cabbage World become offered to Sumea (now called Sumea Studios as part of Digital Chocolate), and renamed to Mole War, which became one of the first industrial real-time multiplayer mobile games. In January 2005, Relude acquired its first round of funding from a commercial enterprise angel, and the enterprise changed its call to Rovio Mobile, because of this pyre in Finnish.

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In 2009, Mikael Hed became the CEO. In December 2009, Rovio launched Angry Birds, its 52nd game, a puzzle game wherein a chook is flung the use of a slingshot for the iPhone; it reached No. 1 spot in the Apple App Store paid apps chart after six months, and remained charted for months after. Angry Birds has due to the fact been downloaded over 1 billion instances, with paid downloads accounting for extra than 25% of overall downloads, making it one of the pinnacle promoting video games inside the Apple App Store.

In March 2011, Rovio raised $forty two million in assignment capital investment from Accel Partners, Atomico and Felicis Ventures. In July 2011, the employer changed its name to Rovio Entertainment. In June 2011, the organisation employed David Maisel to lead their Angry Birds film manufacturing. By October 2011, Rovio bought Kombo, a Helsinki-primarily based animation agency. The animation studio turned into obtained to provide a chain of quick films launched in 2012. In March 2012, Rovio obtained Futuremark Game Studios, the game improvement division of benchmarking business enterprise Futuremark, for an undisclosed sum.

In May 2012, Rovio introduced that its recreation series Angry Birds had reached its one billionth down load. In July 2012, Rovio announced a distribution partnership with Activision to convey the first three Angry Birds titles to online game consoles and handhelds, in a set named Angry Birds Trilogy. It became launched in September 2012. In November 2012, Rovio released Angry Birds Star Wars, an generation of its popular sport licensed from the Star Wars original trilogy, for cell devices and PC. Rovio partnered with Activision once more to port the title to video game consoles and handhelds, with it being launched on the ones structures in October 2013. A sequel, Angry Birds Star Wars II, based on the Star Wars prequel trilogy, become released in September 2013.

ToonsTV brand In March 2013, Rovio launched its multi-platform ToonsTV channel beginning with Angry Birds Toons. As of 2013, Rovio have become a video game writer and is publishing 1/3 celebration games through its Rovio Stars program.