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Sony wins worldwide distribution rights to an upcoming animated feature-length film based on the popular 'Angry Birds' series of mobile games. Producers from 'Iron Man' and 'Despicable Me' are on board to help Rovio Entertainment bring its vision to Hollywood.

Proving once again that Rovio is determined to move far beyond the success of Angry Birds, the game development company has announced it will being publishing, distributing, and marketing third- party apps.

After a few years of industry domination, it seems Rovio has finally decided to sync gamer progress across devices with Rovio Accounts.

The Facebook-connected Angry Birds Friends is now available on the App Store. Play against your friends on Facebook with daily and weekly updates.

Rovio found fame off the back of its phenomenally popular Angry Birds game, which has received over 1.7 billion downloads to date. This week it published its financial figures for 2012, revealing that almost half of its revenue came from merchandise sales.

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This week in Digital Trends' Jetsetter, we take a look at Angry Birds studio Rovio's transformation into a publisher and one of Japan's best-known indie developers going corporate. The big story: The PlayStation 4's international release.

Finland's Rovio isn't a one trick pony. Angry Birds was successful, but so were Angry Birds: Star Wars and Bad Piggies! Spin-off success is one thing, but Rovio does see its future in developing new intellectual properties.

Angry Birds Star Wars officially arrives on November 8, and to herald its debut Rovio has issued a gameplay trailer that is pretty much exactly what you'd expect based on the game's title. Luckily, that's not a bad thing.

Rovio continues to expand the world of Angry Birds with an entirely new series that focuses on the bad guys. Bad Piggies is a fresh start in a familiar world.

Not content with unveiling a game in which members of Green Day become pigs, Angry Birds maker Rovio announced three high level hires to its new North American office today, suggesting that the company is taking its beachhead in the US very seriously indeed.

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Rovio has released their incredibly popular range of Angry Birds games in the BlackBerry AppWorld, but at this time they're only for the PlayBook tablet.

A new game for iOS, Misunderstood Pigs, explores the Angry Birds conflict from the other side of the firing line.

It was December 2009 that Angry Birds first flew onto the iTunes App Store. Now two years later, Rovio celebrates its "Birdday" with version 2.0 of the game, complete with new levels and the unlocking of all existing ones.

After enduring a verbal attack from Barnes & Noble earlier this week, Amazon has hit back, arguing that the Kindle Fire will have Netflix too, and a lot of other apps that the Nook Tablet won't have.

Speaking at a conference in Beijing, Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka announced plans for the opening of Angry Birds stores in China, where the game has a huge fan base. He added that the inspiration for some of the merchandise the stores will be selling has come from unlicensed Angry Birds products already available in the country.

Iron Man and Incredible Hulk producer David Maisel hired to lead Angry Birds movie and other Rovio adaptation projects.

The popular Angry Birds game appears to have stepped outside the virtual world and turned up in a theme park in China.

Angry Birds maker Rovio is reportedly in talks with investors that could see the company valued at as much as $1.2 billion.

Lodsys has added Angry Birds developer Rovio along with Electronic Arts, Atari, and other major mobile game developers to its patent infringement suit.

It's been a long wait, but Angry Birds is finally available on the Windows Phone Marketplace for $2.99

Roku and Rovio partner up to launch an Angry Birds channel, allowing Roku users to play Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio on their TVs.

A working Angry Birds publicity stunt is constructed in Spain by Rovio and Deutsche Telekom.