Rovio Entertainment
Finnish video game developer
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| March 8 2025 | Announced Sonic Rumble, a potential crossover game with the Sonic franchise |
| 2024 | Rovio began producing the animated series Angry Birds Mystery Island, which continues to present day. |
| 2024 | Launched Angry Birds Block Quest, demonstrating ongoing game development |
| 2023 | Released Angry Birds Kingdom and Bad Piggies 2, continuing to expand their game universe |
| December 7 2023 | Rovio closed its Montreal-based Studio Lumi, resulting in 16 job losses. |
| August 17 2023 | Sega Sammy Holdings completed its €706 million tender offer to acquire Rovio. |
| April 15 2023 | IGN reported that Sega would acquire Rovio for close to $1 billion, after Rovio rejected an earlier $800 million bid from Playtika. |
| 2022 | Rovio premiered the animated series Angry Birds: Summer Madness. |
| 2022 | Launched Angry Birds Journey and Rovio Classics: Angry Birds, revisiting their original successful game |
| 2021 | Released Angry Birds Reloaded and Angry Birds: Bird Island, continuing to develop new Angry Birds experiences |
| 2021 | Rovio acquired Turkish casual game developer Ruby Games. |
| 2021 | Rovio was sued by the New Mexico attorney general for allegedly collecting and selling children's personal data. |
| 2020 | Rovio launched two new animated series: Angry Birds Slingshot Stories and Angry Birds Bubble Trouble, both of which continue to present day. |
| 2020 | Launched Small Town Murders, expanding beyond the Angry Birds franchise |
| December 21 2020 | Rovio announced that Alexandre Pelletier-Normand would become CEO, effective January 1, 2021. |
| June 3 2020 | Rovio acquired Darkfire Games, which became Rovio Copenhagen. |
| 2019 | Rovio Entertainment produced and released The Angry Birds Movie 2, continuing its venture into animated feature film production. |
| 2019 | Rovio introduced the animated series Angry Birds MakerSpace, which continues to present day. |
| 2019 | Released several new titles including Angry Birds Dream Blast, Angry Birds VR/AR: Isle of Pigs, and The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure |
| 2018 | Rovio expanded its animated content with three new series: Angry Birds BirLd Cup, Angry Birds Zero Gravity, and Angry Birds on the Run, with the latter continuing until 2020. |
| November 30 2018 | Rovio fully acquired PlayRaven, a developer of strategy games. |
| November 14 2018 | Rovio appointed Alexandre Pelletier-Normand, a former Gameloft executive, as executive vice president of its game business unit, starting January 2, 2019. |
| March 2 2018 | Rovio announced the closure of its London studio due to disappointing results. |
| 2017 | Rovio released the animated series Angry Birds Blues. |
| 2017 | Launched multiple games including Battle Bay, Angry Birds Evolution, Angry Birds Match, and Angry Birds for Messenger |
| October 2017 | Rovio's shares were listed on NASDAQ Helsinki, with the company valued at $1 billion. |
| September 5 2017 | Rovio announced its intention to become a publicly-traded company. |
| June 2017 | Kaj Hed resigned as chairman of Rovio, with Mika Ihamuotila succeeding him. |
| February 15 2017 | Rovio announced it would cut at least 35 jobs while restructuring its animation division. |
| January 16 2017 | Rovio opened a new game studio in London to focus on massively multiplayer online games. |
| 2016 | Rovio Entertainment released its first feature film, The Angry Birds Movie, expanding the company's franchise beyond mobile gaming into cinematic entertainment. |
| 2016 | Rovio released Angry Birds Action! and Angry Birds Blast!, continuing to innovate in mobile gaming |
| 2015 | Multiple game releases including Angry Birds 2, Angry Birds POP!, Nibblers, and a collaboration with Shakira called Love Rocks |
| December 2015 | CEO Pekka Rantala announced he would step down, to be succeeded by Kati Levoranta in January 2016. |
| August 2015 | Rovio conducted a worldwide layoff of 260 employees after Angry Birds toy and merchandise revenue fell by 43% during 2014. |
| 2014 | Rovio began producing two new animated television series: Piggy Tales and Angry Birds Stella, both running until 2019 and 2016 respectively. |
| 2014 | Rovio launched several new titles including Angry Birds Epic, Angry Birds Stella, Angry Birds Transformers, and Selfie Slam |
| December 2014 | Rovio laid off 110 employees and closed its Tampere studio, consolidating operations in Espoo due to decreased profitability. |
| August 2014 | Mikael Hed announced he would step down as CEO in January 2015, transitioning to chairman of Rovio Animation. |
| May 2014 | Rovio launched Rovio LVL11, a new publishing arm to release experimental games, with Retry and Selfie Slam as its first two games. |
| January 2014 | Rovio announced that Angry Birds game series reached two billionth download. The game was also revealed to have 'leaked data' to third-party companies, leading to website defacement by anti-NSA hackers. |
| 2013 | Rovio released games including The Croods, Angry Birds Friends, Angry Birds Star Wars II, and Angry Birds Go!, continuing to expand their gaming portfolio |
| September 2013 | Rovio released Angry Birds Star Wars II, based on the Star Wars prequel trilogy. |
| March 2013 | Rovio launched its multi-platform Toons.TV channel, starting with Angry Birds Toons. |
| 2012 | Multiple game releases including Angry Birds Space, Amazing Alex, Bad Piggies, and Angry Birds Star Wars, showcasing Rovio's diverse game development |
| November 2012 | Rovio released Angry Birds Star Wars for mobile devices and PC, licensed from the Star Wars original trilogy. |
| July 2012 | Rovio announced a distribution partnership with Activision to bring the first three Angry Birds titles to video game consoles and handhelds as Angry Birds Trilogy. |
| May 2012 | Rovio announced that its Angry Birds game series reached one billionth download. |
| March 2012 | Rovio acquired Futuremark Game Studios, the game development division of benchmarking company Futuremark. |
| 2011 | Angry Birds Rio was released, marking a collaboration with the animated movie Rio |
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