Flying High
How Angry Birds 2 significantly increased its revenues within a year
Michail Katkoff deconstructs the changes that breathed new life into the game
Company Profile
Rovio
Website
www.rovio.com
About
Rovio is a leading European mobile game developer that focuses on publishing its benchmark quality games directly, and uses selected partners to further broaden its distribution network. The company was founded in late 2004, is based in Helsinki, and is growing fast to support the global demand of its premium games.
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Accolades
Articles featuring Rovio
Iap Inspector
How does Angry Birds: Evolution monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Tencent Eyeing Rovio
Report: Tencent considers Rovio acquisition in deal worth $3 billion
Either that or Rovio is going to IPO
Rovio Interview
The Eastern influences that inspired Angry Birds Evolution’s design
Rovio's flagship IP is back with a new mobile RPG
Shaking The Nest
Rovio's Board of Directors appoints Mika Ihamuotila as new Chairman of the Board
Kaj Hed steps down after nine years as Chairman
Flying High
The Angry Birds Movie 2 flies into cinemas September 2019
Angry Birds Movie 2 release date set for September 20th
Record Year
How Rovio is steering the ship to a new wave of success
Rovio's Wilhelm Taht on the company's cultural shift, new IP and building on its most famous licence in Angry Birds
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Rovio London's new Executive Producer Will Luton shares career insights
Reflecting on nearly a decade in the games industry
Iap Inspector
How does Rovio's Battle Bay monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Soaring Financials
Rovio’s games business revenues soar to nearly $62 million in Q1 2017
Nearly doubles quarterly revenue year-on-year
Stockholm To London
Will Luton joins Rovio's London studio as Executive Producer
Leading "the next generation of mobile MMOs"
Acquisitive Inquisitions
10 mobile game M&A deals that probably won't happen but which maybe should
Joining the dollar dots
Earth Birds
Rovio partners with WWF for Earth Hour-themed Angry Birds Friends tournament
Switch your lights off and fling some birds
Engaging Users
Why does Flurry say mobile game engagement is down?
Rovio's Wilhelm Taht dives into the stats
Happy Birds
Rovio revenues shot up 34% in 2016 as games business had best year ever
Games business revenues increase to €159 million
Job Losses
Rovio may cut as many as 35 jobs as it restructures animation division
Games thought to be unaffected
Angry Banned
Angry Birds is the most blacklisted app on corporate devices worldwide
Should probably be more concerned about Angry Birds 2
Gates To Success
How Rovio tweaked its gated production framework to offer more autonomy
VP Operations Cyril Barrow explains the evolving strategy
Roviocon 2017
Rovio to host talks and panels from industry legends at second RovioCon in Helsinki on April 20th
Followed by jazz and jolly conversation
Right People, Right Job
Rovio on games performance management and career models
VP of HR Marjo Kuosmanen breaks it down
London Nest
Angry Birds developer Rovio opening London studio
New office for Finnish outfit
All About The Games
Finding success in mobile games the second and third time around
Oscar Clark asks some industry experts how they do it
Rovio Goes (red)
Rovio joins Apple's Games For (RED) campaign with updates to Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds POP
Donating 100% of proceeds from certain IAP to charity
Bundle Of Joy
Ubisoft, Bandai Namco, GungHo and more to bring over 100 games to Hatch mobile streaming platform
Play the best Pac-Man game for free
Up In The Cloud
New mobile streaming Rovio spin-off Hatch aims to finally bring cloud gaming to the masses
Vesa Jutila reveals how the start-up is offering consumers new ways to play games
Publishing Power Panel
Power panel: Experts discuss what publishers can offer in 2016 and beyond
Steel Media's Chris James gets them chatting
Flocks Of Angry Birds
Angry Birds 2 soars to lofty heights with 130 million downloads
Rovio games downloaded 3.5 billion times
Own Goal
Rovio cancels Angry Birds Football after seven months in soft launch
Services to close December 15th
Back To The Nest
Rovio brings back former VP of Ads from Unity and hires new Senior VP of Studios
Antti Viitanen joins from Sulake
Free To Pray
The 10 commandments of free-to-play game design
Thou shalt not try to change free-to-play
More Monsters
Rovio's Pet Monsters expands soft launch to India, Ireland, and the UK
Flat out fails in the UK
Shot Down
Rovio cans Siamgame-developed shooter Angry Birds: Ace Fighter in soft launch
"Adjustment of product structure platform" to blame
Angriest Birds
Rovio soft-launches another Monster Strike-like called Angry Birds Evolution
One is never enough
Box Office Numbers
China, US and Japan drive global games industry revenues to more than double movie Box Office
China and Japan make up over 42% of mobile game revenues
Rather Pleased Birds
Rovio greenlights Angry Birds Movie 2 as profits jump in first half of 2016
Teases new games that we already know about
Party With Pocket Gamer
Join Pocket Gamer, Rovio and KamaGames for the PG Connects Helsinki Party
Register for PGC Helsinki to get access
Angriest Birds
Rovio soft-launches yet another Angry Birds title, Angry Birds Blast
Was two not enough?
No Stars
Rovio Stars on why it hasn't published a game for over a year
Matthew Wilson is getting fussy
Deminions Renamed
Rovio's Monster Strike-like, Deminions Unleashed, renamed Pet Monsters
Stealing an audience or setting up a new franchise?
Spreading His Wings
Rovio's Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka flies the nest to pursue startup
Retains shares with Angry Birds developer
From Pocket To Multiplex
The Angry Birds Movie hits $238 million worldwide, with China in the lead
Angry Birds and Warcraft movies enjoy strong start
Flying Higher
The Angry Birds Movie rakes in $70 million from US and China opening weekends
Now number 1 in 44 markets
Lights, Camera, Action!
Bouncing birds and staying on brand: The making of Angry Birds Action!
How Tag Games gave the familiar characters a whole new style
Flying High
The Angry Birds Movie makes $43 million in opening weekend
Around half its budget made back before launching in the US
Best Of The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016
The shakers, movers and moneymakers
Millionaire Panel
Video: What does it cost to make a million on the App Store?
Less than a million, you would hope
Meg-ua Predictions
Eric Seufert predicts the UA mega trends of 2016
What will be big?
Turnaround
Rovio's game sales up again to $161 million, but company makes loss in 2015
#MakeRovioGreatAgain
10 In 10
10 years of Pocket Gamer: Rovio's Wilhelm Taht on moving from 'dumb phone games' to ultra HD graphics
10 questions, 10 answers, 10 years
Like A Boomerang
Ville Heijari returns to the nest; he's Rovio's new CMO
Making Rovio Great Again