VC-Backed Rovio's Angry Birds Game Sets Record with 500M Downloads in Less than 2 Years
(Reuters) - Mobile gaming company Rovio Entertainment said on Wednesday its hit game Angry Birds had reached a record 500 million downloads in less than two years since its launch. "It's more than any game ever before," Rovio's marketing chief Peter Vesterbacka told a conference in Helsinki. Unlike most mobile-game crazes, Angry Birds -- in which players use a slingshot to attack pigs who steal the birds' eggs -- has stayed at the top of the charts since it was launched for Apple's iPhone on Dec. 11, 2009. Vesterbacka said the company's next aim was to reach 1 billion fans ...
3 November 2011•2 mins read
