Angryverse/Rovio

Rovio Entertainment Corporation (casually known as Rovio) is a Finnish game developer founded in 2003, when it was named Relude before 2005. From 2005 to July 2011, they were known as Rovio Mobile. They developed a worldwide popular hit iOS game, Angry Birds in 2009 to save them from bankruptcy.

History
In 2003, three students from the Helsinki University of Technology, Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim Dikert, participated in a mobile game development competition at the Assembly demo party sponsored by Nokia and Hewlett-Packard. A victory with a mobile game called King of the Cabbage World led the trio to set up their own company, Relude. King of the Cabbage World was sold to Sumea, and renamed to Mole War, which became one of the first commercial real-time multiplayer mobile games. In January 2005, Relude received its first round of investment from a business angel, and the company changed its name to Rovio Mobile, where "rovio" translates from Finnish as "pyre".

In 2009, Mikael Hed became the CEO. In December 2009, Rovio released Angry Birds, its 52nd game, a puzzle game where a bird is flung at pigs using a slingshot for the iPhone; it reached No. 1 spot in the Apple App Store paid apps chart after six months, and remained charted for months after.

In March 2011, Rovio raised $42 million in venture capital funding from Accel Partners, Atomico and Felicis Ventures. In July 2011, the company changed its name to Rovio Entertainment. In June 2011, the company hired David Maisel to lead their Angry Birds movie production. By October 2011, Rovio purchased Kombo, a Helsinki-based animation company. The animation studio was acquired to produce a series of short videos released in 2012. In March 2012, Rovio acquired Futuremark Game Studios, the game development division of benchmarking company Futuremark, for an undisclosed sum.

In May 2012, Rovio announced that its game series Angry Birds had reached its one billionth download. In July 2012, Rovio announced a distribution partnership with Activision to bring the first three Angry Birds titles to video game consoles and handhelds, in a collection named Angry Birds Trilogy. It was released in September 2012. In November 2012, Rovio released Angry Birds Star Wars, an iteration of its popular game licensed from the Star Wars original trilogy, for mobile devices and PC. Rovio partnered with Activision again to port the title to video game consoles and handhelds, with it being released on those platforms in October 2013. A sequel, Angry Birds Star Wars II, based on the Star Wars prequel trilogy, was released in September 2013.

In March 2013, Rovio launched its multi-platform Toons.TV channel starting with Angry Birds Toons. As of 2013, Rovio became a video game publisher and is publishing third party games through its Rovio Stars program. The channel was discontinued in 2017.

In January 2014, Rovio announced that its game series Angry Birds had reached its two billionth download. In addition, it was revealed that their flagship series, Angry Birds, "leaked data" to third-party companies, possibly to surveillance agencies like the NSA. In retaliation, anti-NSA hackers defaced Rovio's website.

In May 2014, Rovio launched a new publishing arm, Rovio LVL11, to release experimental games. The first game published under Rovio LVL11 is Retry and the second is Selfie Slam. As of June 2014, Rovio considers themselves an entertainment company, not just a game company. This is reinforced by Rovio's merchandise and licensing business accounting for about half of their annual revenue of $216 million in 2013.

In August 2014, Rovio announced that Mikael Hed would step down as CEO in January 2015 in favour of Pekka Rantala. Hed remained on Rovio's board and became the chairman of Rovio Animation. In December 2014, Rovio laid off 110 employees after net profits halved in 2013 due to its recent games, Angry Birds Epic and Go!, which have not been that successful as past games. After this move, Rovio closed its Tampere studio, moving their operations to its Espoo location. At the end of 2014, Rovio suffered from a 73% decrease in profit, earning only €10 million. Pekka Rantala stated that the decrease is due to the poor sales of the licensed merchandise and the by-products of Angry Birds. He also noted that "the company are unsatisfied over the result of our licensing business". In August 2015, Rovio laid off 260 employees worldwide after Angry Birds toy and merchandise revenue fell by 43% during 2014. In December 2015, Rantala announced that he would step down as the CEO and would be succeeded by Kati Levoranta, former chief legal officer of Rovio, in January 2016.

On 16 January 2017, Rovio opened its new game studio in London to focus on massively multiplayer online games. On 15 February 2017, Rovio announced that it will be cutting at least 35 jobs as it restructures the animation division. In March 2017, Kaiken Entertainment, founded by former Rovio CEO Mikael Hed, acquired Rovio's animation division. In March 2017, Rovio reported that it has returned to profitability with a gross revenue of US$201 million with the success of the Angry Birds Movie and its recent video games.

In June 2017, Kaj Hed resigned as chairman of Rovio and Mika Ihamuotila succeeded him as new chairman.

On 5 September 2017, Rovio announced its intention to become a publicly-traded company. In October 2017, Rovio shares were sold at NASDAQ Helsinki and the company was valued at $1 billion.

On 2 March 2018, Rovio announced the closure of its London studio after disappointing results.

On 14 November 2018, Rovio announced that it appointed the former Gameloft executive Alexandre Pelletier-Normand as executive vice president of its game business unit. He started his role on January 2, 2019. On 30 November 2018, Rovio announced that they had fully acquired PlayRaven, the developer known for making strategy games such as Eve: War of Ascension.

On 3 June 2020, Rovio acquired Darkfire Games for an undisclosed sum. The subsidiary will become Rovio Copenhagen.

On 21 December 2020 Rovio announced that Executive Vice President of games, Alexandre Pelletier-Normand, would take over as CEO. The change went into effect on January 1, 2021.

On August 12, 2021, Rovio acquired Ruby Games for an undisclosed sum.

In 2021, the New Mexico attorney general filed a federal lawsuit against Rovio, alleging the company illegally collected and sold private personal data of users under thirteen to third party advertisers.

Angry Birds

 * Angry Birds (released December 2009)
 * Angry Birds Seasons (released October 21, 2010)
 * Angry Birds Rio (released March 22, 2011)
 * Angry Birds Free with Magic (released April 2011)
 * Angry Birds Chrome (released May 2011)
 * Angry Birds Google+ (released May 2011)
 * Angry Birds Friends (mobile and online, released February 2012 for online May 2, 2013, for mobile and August 9, 2019, for offline Windows 10)
 * Angry Birds Space (released March 22, 2012)
 * Angry Birds Star Wars (released November 8, 2012)
 * Angry Birds Star Wars II (released September 19, 2013)
 * Angry Birds Go! (released December 11, 2013)
 * Angry Birds Epic (released March 17, 2014, for AUS/NZ, June 12, 2014, worldwide)
 * Angry Birds Stella (released September 4, 2014)
 * Angry Birds Transformers (released October 15, 2014)
 * Angry Birds Fight!
 * Angry Birds 2 (released July 30, 2015)
 * Angry Birds Football (released April 25, 2016)
 * Angry Birds Ace Fighter (released May 31, 2016, for Chinese Beta Testing and July 27, 2016, for Open Beta Testing)
 * Angry Birds Volcano
 * Angry Birds in The Hunt For The Golden Pistachio
 * Angry Birds Vuela Tazos
 * Angry Birds Winter Wonderland
 * Bad Piggies (released September 27, 2012)
 * Angry Birds Action! (released April 28, 2016)
 * Angry Birds Blast! (released December 22, 2016)
 * Angry Birds Evolution (released June 15, 2017)
 * Angry Birds Match (released August 31, 2017)
 * Angry Birds Champions (released February 21, 2018)
 * Angry Birds for Facebook Messenger (released March 1, 2018)
 * Angry Birds Dream Blast (released January 24, 2019)
 * Angry Birds POP Blast (released April 12, 2019)
 * Angry Birds Island (Never got released worldwide)
 * Angry Birds Tennis (released February 2020)
 * Angry Birds Journey (released worldwide January 20, 2022)
 * Angry Birds Legends (Never got released worldwide)
 * Angry Birds Double Crossed (Not released yet)
 * Angry Birds Launch It! (Not released yet)
 * Angry Birds Reloaded (released July 15, 2021 at 11:00 P.M EST)
 * Angry Birds: Mayhem Simulator (released December 16, 2021)

Other Games

 * indicates no longer available
 * Amazing Alex*
 * Battle Bay
 * Bounce Evolution
 * Bounce Tales
 * Bounce Touch
 * Bounce Boing Voyage
 * Burger Rush
 * Burnout (Java)
 * Business Time!
 * Collapse Chaos
 * Cyber Blood
 * Darkest Fear
 * Darkest Fear 2: Grim Oak
 * Darkest Fear 3: Nightmare
 * Darkfire Heroes
 * Deminions Unleased (Pet Monsters)
 * Desert Sniper
 * Dragon & Jade
 * Formula GP Racing
 * Gem Drop
 * Hardhead Squad: MMO War*
 * King of The Cabbage World
 * Love Rocks
 * Marine Sniper
 * Moomin Blast
 * Mole War
 * Need for Speed: Carbon (Java mobile)
 * (Fruit) Nibblers
 * Paid to Kill
 * Paper Planes
 * Party Monsters*
 * Patron Angel
 * Phoenix Rangers
 * Playman Winter Games
 * RETRY*
 * Shopping Madness
 * Sugar Blast
 * Small Town Murders
 * Space Impact: Meteor Shield
 * Star Marine
 * Supernatural City: Match 3
 * Sumea Ski Jump
 * Swat Elite Troops
 * US Marine Corps Scout Sniper
 * The Croods*
 * Totomi
 * Travel Match Club
 * War Diary Burma
 * War Diary Crusader
 * War Diary Torpedo
 * Wolfmoon
 * X-Factor 2008

Rovio Stars
Rovio Stars is Rovio's publishing arm, where they help other game studios with developing and publishing their video games. The Rovio stars titles are:

Once again, * means no longer published.
 * Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage*
 * Tiny Thief*
 * Juice Cubes
 * Word Monsters*
 * Plunder Pirates
 * Jolly Jam*
 * Sky Punks*