Roku gets more casual games. Next up: Cut the Rope?
Roku has struck a partnership with casual games SDK maker Marmalade, which could bring a number of the mobile games you know and love to your Roku.
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Roku has struck a partnership with casual games SDK maker Marmalade, which could bring a number of the mobile games you know and love to your Roku.
Candy Crush Saga is a runaway success, pulling down millions and setting up developer King for a big IPO. But one game does not a company make. Here are four lessons from other developers to help King chart its next move.
With a successful franchise in their back pocket, Angry Birds developers Rovio don’t need to reinvent the wheel with their next game. They can look for innovation in other indie developers.
Hullabalu shows us what kids entertainment might look in the age of the iPad. It is stunning, immersive and delightful. Most importantly it is touch and tablet native. Oh, they also got $1.8 million in funding.
Bridging the gap between hardcore horse-betting and social gaming, New York-based Derby Jackpot is beta testing an online game that lets players bet real money on live horse races. The launch comes as social gaming giant Zynga also makes inroads in real money social gaming.
Rovio, whose “Angry Birds” app has been downloaded over 1 billion times, announced its first book app, a $0.99 iPad cookbook called “Bad Piggies’ Best Egg Recipes,” at the Frankfurt Book Fair Thursday. “We’re looking for millions of downloads,” CMO Peter Vesterbacka said.
Rovio, the team behind Angry Birds, is launching Bad Piggies, a game told from the pig’s perspective. The game is still physics based but it doesn’t have the same visceral fun of throwing birds and bringing down structures.
I was going to include these posts in next week’s Om Says newsletter, but who wants to wait till then? I would say read these posts before you call it a Sunday. They aren’t exactly news, but that is why they are worth reading!
Rovio has finally released its next title after the smash hit Angry Birds — a physics puzzler called Amazing Alex that reworks an existing iPhone game with a few little extra touches. Will the Finnish company prove it’s not a one hit wonder?
Angry Birds maker Rovio generated $106.3 million in revenue last year based on the success of three games and a booming merchandising business. The tenfold improvement over the previous is a strong showing for the company as it looks ahead to an IPO next.
Book publishers have to make reading books as addictive and habit-forming as playing Angry Birds, Charles Duhigg, author of “The Power of Habit” (also known as “that book about how Target knew a teenager was pregnant before her dad did”) argues.
Samsung, on a high after releasing some strong mobile numbers last week, today became the latest consumer electronics brand to hang its name…
Angry Birds has soared into some rarified air with the news that it’s eclipsed 500 million downloads after launching less than two years ago. Mikael Hed, aka Mighty Eagle made the announcement on stage at the Slush Conference in Helsinki.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this may be stretching the expression a bit too far. Cut the Birds, a game release…
The No. 2 free app on Apple’s app store is Cut the Birds, a mashup of two really popular iOS games: Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja. The comments on the app’s review section say it all. I am just surprised it slipped past the Apple censors.
There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world — and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto s…
Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, and games like ‘Angry Birds’ are some of the most popular applications on smartphones today, b…
Angry Birds creator Rovio is using predictive analytics software from Seattle-based startup Medio in an attempt to improve the gaming experience and keep users playing. Mobile and social games might appear to be cute diversions, but they’re generating lots of money.
Right on the heels of $8 million in new funding, Roku has added seven new casual games to its boxes. The games, which were developed by Accedo, follow on the release of Angry Birds on its new devices and will add some additional revenues.
The iPhone and iPad are swimming in awesome game releases lately. Three titles worthy of special attention arrived on Apple’s mobile devices Thursday, including a little something for everyone, from casual gamers right up to those looking for a fairly rich RPG experience.
You can almost see the lawyers for Rovio debating whether or not they’d like to use the exploding black bird or the dive-bombing white bird…
The next generation of Roku media streaming boxes will roll out soon, with a new, smaller form factor and more powerful graphics. With the release, the company is betting big on casual games becoming available on new Roku 2 devices, including Rovio’s Angry Birds.
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which is struggling with lower in-store sales, has a new promotional offer: Bring an old e-reader into a store,…
Pictures and details of the next generation of Roku set-top boxes have been revealed, thanks to a filing with the FCC. So should you get ready to buy one? It probably depends on if you already own a Roku — and how much you like Angry Birds.
Barnes & Noble’s website sales are surging, but in-store sales are down. The retailer’s secret weapon to lure shoppers back into stores? Ang…
Looks like Rovio is not the only mobile content company that wants to catapult itself into being the next Disney of the entertainment world.…
Rovio wants to take Angry Birds local by enhancing game play for users when they visit real-world locations. The feature builds off an NFC feature for certain Nokia phones, and unlocks new levels when users tap their phones together or tap in at a location.
Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds, has a huge hit on its hands — 200 million downloads and ambitious plans for toys, animated series and even a movie. But is the company really thinking about the future . . . or just trying to cash in while it can?
Rovio, which has made a small fortune spinning out products from the wild success of its “Angry Birds” mobile games, is now moving into book…
With half a million apps and counting out there, and problems discovering the good ones, it’s likely that we are going to start to see some…
One of the greatest mobile gaming hits ever just keeps on rolling: Angry Birds has hit the 200 million-downloads milestone, Rovio’s Mighty E…
The second day of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) I/O was all about Google’s Chrome Web browser and its budding Chrome OS project. Google’s Chrome leade…
Chrome now has 160 million users in 41 countries worldwide. That’s more than double the 70 million users reported at last year’s conference. In addition to new features in the Chrome API, Google also announced a special web version of Angry Birds for Chrome.
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more Skype partnering and merger speculation, this time with Microsoft; (NSDQ: MSFT) An…
paidContent Mobile: Platform Power in New York is less than two weeks away. On May 18, join us as we discuss the dominating mobile platforms…
While Rio the movie rakes it in at the box office, Angry Birds Rio catapulted to the top of the app charts with 10 million downloads in the…
When the iPad first arrived, a lot of iPhone games got HD treatments. A little over a year later, and the opposite seems to be happening. Sword & Sworcery EP and Chicken Balls are both now on the iPhone after debuting on the iPad.
NFC can be used for a lot of things, now including unlocking levels in Angry Birds. Rovio is partnering with Nokia to offer a Symbian version of its popular title, called Angry Birds Magic, in which most of the levels will be unlocked through NFC.
Luckily for Rovio, raising cash from the public markets might be easier than trying to make the bird with the long beak spin back onto the p…
Angry Birds developer Rovio is launching its follow up game Rio exclusively on the Amazon App Store for Android, giving Amazon’s new market a marquee title as it prepares to open for business. Here’s what the deal means for Amazon, developers and Google.
Rovio, the Finnish company behind the hit Angry Birds game has raised $42 million in venture funding to grow the business into different directions. Investors in the company include Accel Partners, Atomico and Felicis Ventures. Angry Birds maker hopes to become a many-media brand.
The Game Developer Conference (GDC) is on this week, and iOS gaming is a big part of it. Angry Birds developer Rovio is in attendance, and CEO Peter Vesterbacka took some time to sing the praises of iOS before discussing the future of the bird-flinging franchise.
I went to an Austin cake show today, and amid several superhero cakes, wedding confections and some impressive feats of fondant I stumbled upon an ode to Angry Birds. I wonder if it tastes as good as it looks. Click through to see the whole thing.
— Angry Birds: Rovio’s hugely successful mobile game may not yet be available on Windows Phone 7 handsets, but it is now making the move to…
Rovio is taking its success with Angry Birds — 50 million downloads and counting — and using it to launch a new carrier-billing payment system. The mobile developer said it is launching Bad Piggy Bank early next year, allowing one-touch in-app billing to a user’s wireless bill.
Those Angry Birds cannot be stopped, not even by the holiday season. Rovio Mobile has released a special Android version for the holidays, with a twist. The Christmas-themed game was introduced on Dec. 1, and will only unlock one level per day until Christmas.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is the first Android tablet to make a serious run at the iPad, and with Angry Birds now on Android the question is how well does the game run on the Tab? Check out this video showing bird flinging in glorious hi-res.
The Angry Birds phenomenon just keeps rocking the mobile world, and soon a second Android version will be rocking low-end handsets with older versions of the OS. Performance issues are forcing Rovio to develop this version to address the diversity of devices running Android today.
Until recently, GetJar was probably one of the biggest app stores that few people had ever used. That ended on Friday, however, when it offered an exclusive on Angry Birds for Android, touching off a frenzy of downloads that overwhelmed GetJar’s servers.
ZeptoLabs’ Cut the Rope, a clever physics-based puzzle game, has replaced Angry Birds on the top of the App Store charts and got to 1 million downloads within 10 days, a record for a paid iOS app. We talk to the developers to find out their secret.
Electronic Arts bought UK mobile game publisher Chillingo, which distributes the break-out hit Angry Birds. The deal, rumored to be worth $20 million, comes almost a year after EA bought Playfish for $400 million and extends EA’s move into more social and mobile games.
Angry Birds just passed 2 million downloads on Android, making it the fastest downloaded app on Android Market ever. The successful launch on Friday says a lot about the game and about the state of Android Market. Here are five things we learned:
The Android world saw two new apps released this week that show promise. Angry Birds is one of the hottest games in the iTunes App Store, and the free Android version should be well received. Opera Mobile is coming to the platform and looks very nice.
Google has the Android Market for app distribution, but GetJar has Angry Birds with an exclusive deal that shuts Google out of the hot game phenomenon. GetJar is an app store with over a billion downloads, and Angry Birds will likely score a few more.
Until recently, the activity on the Team Coco YouTube account was relatively minimal. Looks like that’s changing in a big way, though, as today Conan O’Brien announced that he’d be taking questions on Facebook and answering them in video form on his YouTube channel.
I hear birds squawking in my sleep. I see green pigs dance in front of my eyes. Like millions, I am addicted to Angry Birds, the game. In this video, CEO Mikael Hed and executive Peter Vesterbacka share the secrets of capturing all our idle minutes.