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Angry Birds fly ever higher, Rovio expands

Espoo-based Rovio Entertainment says its latest launch, Angry Birds Space, hit 50 million downloads within 35 days, making it the fastest growing mobile game to date.

Angry Birds Space
Angry Birds Space Image: Rovio Entertainment

According to Rovio, Angry Birds Space has broken the record for all of its previous game versions. This latest move in the Angry Birds franchise is already available for smartphones, tablet computers, PCs and Mac computers.

Various versions of Angry Birds have had 700 million downloads.

Along with the game, Rovio Entertainment has been expanding at a rapid pace and now has operations in Tampere, Finland and Shanghai, China,  in addition to its head offices in Espoo.

Last week, the company announced the acquisition of Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming arm of benchmarking software developer Futuremark. This is the second acquisition for Rovio in the past year, after the purchase of Kombo Animation Studio last summer.

Rovio also says that it is setting up a new games studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

Sources: Yle