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Rovio (previously known as Relude & Rovio Mobile, currently known as Rovio Entertainment) is a Finnish game publisher formed in 2003 in Espoo, Finland by Helsinki University of Technology students Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim Dikert.
History
The company originally started out developing games for the Assembly Demo Party. Until in 2005 when the company got it's first sponsor. This caused the company to rebrand to "Rovio Mobile", with the word "Rovio" meaning "Bonfire" in Finnish.[1] When the rebrand occurred in March of that same year, Rovio only had 20 employees with 3 in-house development teams for J2ME and real-time multiplayer games.[2]
Games
For full list, see List of games.
Trivia
- On April 14th, 2022 Rovio has reached over 5 billion downloads throughout their app library.[3]
- On March 9th, 2012 Niklas Zennström, the founder of Skype invested $42 million in Rovio.[4]
- In mid-2011, Zynga attempted to buy-out Rovio for $2.2 billion USD, but the offer was declined.[5]
Gallery
Logos
2003-2005
2005-2011
2011-2016
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Horizontal variant
2016- present
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Horizontal variant
GIF
References
- ↑ https://www.rovio.com/about/#:~:text=From%20Relude%20to%20Rovio.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050325023943/http://www.rovio.com:80/
- ↑ https://www.rovio.com/articles/rovio-games-have-surpassed-5-billion-total-downloads/
- ↑ "$42m Series A Investment in Rovio, Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype joining board http://bit.ly/gAFPt8" - @angrybirds
- ↑ https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/rovio-turns-down-a-2-billion-buyout-offer-from-zynga
External links
- Rovio Website
- Relude Website (Archived)
- Relude Linkedin