Angry Birds developer Rovio has laid off 16% of its staff (a total of 130 employees) in Finland. This is due to hiring staff based on expectations of growth, expectations which turned out to be wrong, CEO Mikael Hed announced in a statement on the company's...

Dear Hollywood, You are good at what you do. You make movie magic. Blockbusters, indies, novel adaptations, comic-book adaptations; all of these excel on screens across the world. But time and time again you fail to bring convincing adaptations of video...

Sure, Angry Birds has become a worldwide phenomena since Rovio introduced this avian experience, but it never truly became big. Why do I say that? Because as gamers know so well, no series is truly big until it creates a kart racing spin-off game. Starting...

Of the estimated 17.4 million new Android and Apple phones and tablets unwrapped on Christmas day, nearly half snagged a copy of Rovio's bird-powered physics puzzler. It sure pays to be nearly synonymous with mobile gaming, doesn't it? Using statistics...