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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
Mobile Mavens
Rovio's risk: Are layoffs evidence of lean times ahead at the house that Angry Birds built?
Our Mavens give their view
Jobs
Rovio lays off 130 staff
Finnish Facebook group offers help
Rovio CEO Mikael Hed to step aside in 2015
Flying the nest
Video
Rovio, Creative Mobile and Lima Sky discuss building global brands
Panel talking from PG Connects Helsinki
Video
Money doesn't matter: Embrace your mistakes and chase your passion, says Rovio's Niklas Hed
A phoenix rises
Artist files lawsuit after claiming her trademarked 'Angry Birds' IP was sold to Rovio illegally
Fight the power
Video
Realising potential: Rovio reveals how developers can brand their way to success
Learn from the best
The Charticle
Quest for gold: Did Angry Birds Epic find fortune on the App Store?
Epic by nature?
Video
Game changer: Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka on why brand building is the future
Detailing the '100 year plan'
Pg Connects
Rovio: Most games for our publishing label are 'found at conferences'
Call for indies to get out and about
Pg Connects
Angry Birds goes pop: Why branding and licensing is a must for devs looking to make it big
Power panel reveals all
Pg Connects
Brand power: Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka on why great games aren't enough
Don't get left behind
Pg Connects
Mistakes, epiphanies, and hard work: How Angry Birds conquered the world
The origins of a mobile superstar
Deal
NTT Docomo signs Angry Birds subscription deal with Rovio
Includes games, toons and free in-game items
Rovio shores up consumer products business with trio of strategic hires
And one in-house promotion
The Finnsider
Keep calm, we're Finnish: While the UK whips itself into a F2P furore, Finland's finest are steaming ahead
A tale of two territories
Angry Birds Go's IAPs not out to tempt kids, but the "inner child" in all of us says dev
Exient on finding its feet with F2P
Making Of
From kart to finish: The making of Angry Birds Go
The race is never over
Level up: Rovio announces new publishing label LVL11
Looking to do things outside Angry Birds
Interview
"LVL11 is a kind of magical place": Jami Laes talks Rovio's new publishing label
Going to the next level
Chart Of The Week
How Rovio’s growth stacks up against Mojang, King, and Supercell
Embattled birds
Financials
Pause or decline? Rovio sees 2013 profits drop 51% to $37 million
Sales up 2.5% to $215 million
Diary Of A Promiscuous Gamer
Week of the Big Uninstall
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
The Global View
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2014
The shakers, makers and movers
We're out to find the Man Utd of the Dutch dev scene: Reinout te Brake talks GameOn's 10 million development fund
iQU founder rebutts Rami Ismail's criticisms
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: King gives up on Candy(TM), Rovio unveils new publishing program, and MagicSolver 'moves on'
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Exclusive: Rovio unveils groundbreaking new publishing program
Children learn more when they're having fun
Vlambeer pours cold water on GameOn's 10 million development fund
Could hurt stability and creativity, says Ismail
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Farewell Flappy Bird, Supercell's $892 million sales, and Molyneux says F2P is a sledgehammer
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
The In-App Purchase Inspector: Having a go on Angry Birds Go!
IAPs from the players' perspective
Opinion: Very Big Indie Pitch proves mobile's still the market that matters
Innovation and creativity flourishing
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: One big arrival and a massive clear out
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PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Phablets explode, PlayRaven raises $2.3M, Linekong raises $80M, and lessons learned from PG Connects
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
PCG: Angry Birds is as big as Twitter says The Mighty Eagle
Has 200 million players every month
Over 550 signed up to PG Connects as we countdown to 20 January
Join them (and us) at London's Vinopolis
We need to meet core gamers' needs, and satisfy the casual audience, says Game Insight CEO
Alisa Chumachenko on going broad and deep in 2014
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Heroes of Dragon Age tries my patience and wallet
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PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Tearaway tops GDC Award nominations, BlackBerry backs away from games, and the App Store's $10 billion for devs
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
The Charticle: The launch of Angry Birds Go!
The early reaction to Rovio first F2P release
2013 In Review: SponsorPay's Janis Zech
Supercell deal was a vote of confidence in mobile games
Very Big Indie Pitch grows even bigger as Rovio, MyGamez and GameSparks join Wild Tangent as sponsors
Pre-submission deadline extended to 18 December
Rovio brands a newborn generation of Finns
Swag for birdday babies
Angry Birds Go is our first step to take the brand in new directions, says Rovio
Company also working on brand new IP
Stateside: Violent change is coming. Only the innovative will survive
F2P consensus is fragmenting
'We're teaching Rovio a few things about free-to-play': Pocket PlayLab talks Juice Cubes
Why working with Rovio is a two-way street
Rovio mergers veep Teemu Huuhtanen flies nest to found new mobile studio
Next Games his next move
We're looking for devs who can match Angry Birds' quality says Rovio Stars
Publishing arm wants to see your ambition
Video Star
Angry Birds Toons hits 400 million views
Brand on the run
New deals see Rovio break the 500 partner barrier for Angry Birds licensing
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