Angry Birds cartoon series premieres next month

Rovio has announced the debut of its new Angry Birds animated series will land in March.

 

A blog post and accompanying trailer from the video game developer-turned-entertainment company confirmed that Angry Birds Toons will premiere on March 16-17 (assumedly based on time zones).

According to Rovio, new episodes will be made available online “every” week – though how many are ready to go at this point is unclear.

 

It’s been a while since we heard about the cartoon, which was originally revealed back in January 2011 as one of the many products the company was investing in for its mobile franchise.

 

Angry Birds' Rovio doubles its revenues

 

Business has been good for the Angry Birds developer as the company's revenues doubled year-on-year in 2012.

The studio's revenue was €152.2m, up 101 per cent from 2011's €75.6m. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) grew by 64 per cent to €76.8m.

“2012 was another record-breaking year for Rovio. We doubled our revenue with an EBIT margin of 50 per cent, more than doubled our headcount, established new offices and a New Business Ventures unit,” said Rovio CFO Herkko Soininen.

Like the year before, merchandising accounted for a large chunk of the company's revenue. Rovio's Consumer Products business unit's revenue showed a yearly growth of over 300 per cent, and made up almost half of the company's total revenue.

Rovio games broke the 1bn download mark in May 2012 and the total active monthly users topped at 263m in last December.

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Angry Birds flock to the world of children's books in time for Christmas

Via TechCrunch:

Rovio's Angry Birds are poised to make the leap – or is it flight? – to the world of print media in the UK, courtesy of a deal with children's book publisher Egmont.

The freshly-inked agreement will see Angry Birds-branded books distributed across the UK, Ireland, and English-speaking Commonwealth countries in time for the holiday season.

Kicking off the series is a double-sided joke book, featuring pigs on one side and birds on the other.

While hardly classic literature, Egmont hopes that the appearance of Angry Birds in books will convince children to put down their borrowed tablets and smartphones to read for a bit.

The joke book is planned to retail for £4.99/$8.00.

Book 'em, Rovio

Following the release of the double-sided joke book, Egmont plans to expand the range of Angry Birds titles by releasing a 'punch out' book and a 'search and find' title in 2013.

The move for Rovio to bring its successful Angry Birds brand to children's books is hardly unexpected, given the broad range of Angry Birds licenses that have popped up in the past year from card games, to theme parks, and even talk of an upcoming movie.

Angry Birds maker Rovio to unveil book app

Gaming isn’t enough to contain the ambitious of Rovio, maker of the highly contagious Angry Birds mobile game series, VentureBeat reports.

Next week, Rovio plans to disclose its “vision of digital publishing” and unveil its first book app at the Frankfurt Bookfair in Germany on Oct. 11. Peter Vesterbacka, Mighty Eagle and chief marketing officer at Rovio, will make a presentation about the app at the event.

The book app will serve multiple purposes. It will extend the Angry Birds (presumably that’s the franchise) property from one media to another, satisfying fans who can’t get enough of it. It also diversifies Rovio’s business into a new form of media, beyond the games and toys that it already sells. Rovio isn’t dropping any more clues about the content of the book yet, VB says.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17921633

Angry Birds-maker Rovio pins growth hopes on Bad Piggies

 

Mobile gaming developer Rovio has launched its latest title, Bad Piggies - a spin-off of its hugely popular game, Angry Birds.

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