Rovio Entertainment, known for its intense focus on one mega-successful game title, "Angry Birds," is looking to diversify with another new mobile game called "Amazing Alex."
Android users beware. Download the wrong version of your favorite pig-killing game and the birds won't be the only ones who are angry.
Fans of the "Angry Birds" franchise, take notice: The disgruntled feathery creatures have conquered space, and they're out to show those dastardly pigs a lesson.
Rovio launches the newest installment of its addictive mobile game franchise. Kristie Lu Stout finds out more.
Move over, Jupiter: Angry Birds is hitting the galaxy.
On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg explain how a multiple apps have been using Apple's mobile operating system to collect, and keep, users' contact lists.
Rovio CMO Peter Vesterbacka discusses the game's launch on Facebook and why they rejected a $2 billion buyout from Zynga.
We're going to feel a little guilty if this news gets you fired. But you can now play "Angry Birds" on Facebook.
App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low!
A small Seattle-based company hit it big after snagging the first-ever license to make Angry Birds baby products.
With a new slim-you-down app born every minute (or so it seems), it's hard to know what's worth your download.
CNN's Jonathan Mann reports on a real-life version of the wildly popular "Angry Birds" that has popped up in China.
When Indian activist Anna Hazare last month succeeded in pushing his government to take tougher steps against political dishonesty, victory came only after he endured days on hunger strike.
Google's social network, Google+, recently sent tremors through the gaming world with the announcement that it would be launching a new social games service.
If you're ashamed to admit you can't resist checking e-mail, catching up on your Web comics or flinging a few "Angry Birds" when nature calls, take heart. You're not alone.
Google upped the ante in its challenge to Facebook Thursday by introducing games into its nascent social network Google+.
Just how big is mobile game phenomenon "Angry Birds"?
Forget skinny jeans, sweater vests and iPads. This year's back to school must-have is anything having to do with Angry Birds!
Popular wisdom holds that because they're more intuitive, approachable and inviting than traditional video games, social games are shallow.
Being a tech dad is a curse. We are always chasing the latest and greatest that tech minds are producing despite our economic status, how many kids we have or whether or not the CFO at home (the wife) will approve.
Every year, like swallows to Capistrano, the great and the good of the marketing world flock to the French Riviera. For 58 years, the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity has been inspiring the people who make the ads you see on TV, the posters at your bus stop and, since 1994, the banners online that beg you to click here.
At 37, Lisa Sharp is comfortable calling herself a video-game junkie. But that wasn't always the case.
It's been a big week for video gamers.
Join Doug Gross to see the latest games on the floor of the world's biggest gaming expo, E3.
The news that Lady Gaga has inspired an online game, "GagaVille," has got us thinking: Let's face it -- Gaga already sort of is a video game character.
The world's most popular cranky avians are about to land in your Web browser.
In this week'sTech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg break down Amazon's plan to offer a cheaper Kindle with advertisements.
Spring has officially sprung for the video game industry, with new systems such as Nintendo's glasses-free, handheld 3DS and new titles such as "Crysis 2" and "Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars" leading the charge.
With very little cash, the developers at Finland's Rovio Mobile created the wildly popular Angry Birds game. Now they have $42 million in venture capital to throw at expanding their "mean pigs, cranky birds" empire.
Rovio CEO Mikael Hed says the immensely popular "Angry Birds" game is coming to Facebook next month with "completely new aspects to it that just haven't been experienced in any other platform."
Nick Thompson, senior editor at The New Yorker, discusses the popular "Angry Birds" cell phone game on American Morning.
Blockbuster videogame heroes have tamed the Wild West, repelled alien invasions and driven the Nazis from Normandy. But can they fight off "Angry Birds"?
The enormously popular "Angry Birds" game for iOS and Android just got 30 new levels with a chance to find one more, and the update is free.
OK ... so obviously not all mobile apps are Facebook, "Words With Friends" or "Angry Birds."
Apparently, conquering those smarmy, snickering pigs on your phone, laptop or other mobile device isn't enough.
For video game junkies, blockbuster titles like Cold War-era shooter "Call of Duty: Black Ops" and post-apocalyptic role-player "Fallout: New Vegas" make 2010 a hard act to follow.
"Angry Birds," one of the most successful mobile games in history, is taking its bird-slinging game mechanics to a new platform: the traditional game console.
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