Rovio set to put social spin on Angry Birds with rumours of freemium mobile version in 2012
One of four games currently in development
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[UPDATE] GREE and KDDI suing DeNA for antitrust breach, but DeNA denies all knowledge
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Activision vets come together to launch browser-based digital studio U4iA Games
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