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Angry Birds developer Rovio turned down a $2.25 billion takeover bid from social games developer Zynga earlier this year, according to a report published in The New York Times.

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MCV‘s reporting this morning that Angry Birds will make its enviable jump to retail from November 25 on PC for £10.20 in the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Focus Multimedia will be handling pub duties. After the release of the original this month, Angry Birds Seasons will release before Christmas, with Angry Birds Rio coming next year.

More details at the link.

Rovio has announced that Angry Birds has been downloaded 500 million times since its release on December 11, 2009. “It’s more than any game ever before,” said the firm’s marketing boss Peter Vesterbacka, who added that the firm’s next goal is to reach 1 billion downloads. Earlier this year, Rovio raised $42 million from venture capital firms, and has expanded the franchise into toys as well as baby and pet products. Via Reuters.

Rovio US GM Andrew Stalbow has said at Web 2.0 that Angry Birds has been downloaded 400 million times, with more stats also provided at his Web 2.0 talk in San Francisco. The gane, across its multiple releases over multiple platforms, sees 30 million daily active users with 300 million minutes played every day, which translates into 109.5 billion minutes per year or 1.825 billion hours.

There’s more details on Mashable.

Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka has hinted the company may go for an IPO within the next year, but says it current valuation of $1.2 billion is lower than it sees it should be.

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Time again for another round of the small stuff.

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Rovio GM Andre Stalbow has related to VentureBeat that Angry Birds has been downloaded over 350 million times, and users log more than 300 million minutes each day playing the title.

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A handy infographic helps explain why you just can’t stop flinging enraged avians at increasingly pitiful pigs.

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Rovio Entertainment is in talks for new funding which would put the firm’s value at $1.2 billion, according to a Bloomberg reports. Citing “two people with knowledge of the discussions,” Bloomberg states Rovio is considering an investment from an as of yet unnamed entertainment firm. The funding would help the firm with its Angry Birds movie, currently at the idea stage, and extra fund to open offices outside of its home-base of Finland. In March, Rovio raised $42 million from an investment fund controlled by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom. Thanks, Forbes.

VentureBeat‘s reporting that Rovio has partnered with Madhouse to help bring Angry Birds to China. The ad network will help push the mobile marketing campaign for the game in the country. Since its 2009 launch, Angry Birds has seen 12 million units sold from the App Store.

Angry Birds creator Rovio has said it plans to be the biggest entertainment brand in the world in two years.

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Rovio has said different companies have offered to purchase the firm and its Angry Birds IP, but no “really relevant discussions” on the matter have taken place at the firm as of yet.

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Rovio’s about to take part in another round of funding, according to suggestions made by the company. Head of global brand advertising Wibe Wagemans apparently “raised his hand” when asked at GamesBeat what companies were raising money. “We’re in fast growth mode, so we’re always on the lookout for good money,” he said. “We’re always interested.”

More details at VentureBeat.

Rovio’s confirmed that Angry Birds has now hit 250 million downloads on all mobile platforms the game has appeared on. The news was confirmed by founder Peter Vestebacka in an interview with TechCrunch. Vestebacka also mentioned a location-based platform known as Angry Birds Magic. There’s more details on it at the link

As with many works of fiction, Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” got it all wrong. And as is normally the case with these things, the real life version is turning out to be far worse.

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You know what’s a really big number? The number of times people have nabbed a copy of casual blockbuster Angry Birds.

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It really was just a matter of time, but Angry Birds has now made it online, and is completely playable – in HTML 5 – on Google’s Chrome browser.

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While a lot of folks feel they’ve been kicked in the neck over this PSN business and have seen loads of reports on the situation, other stuff happened in the world of games as well. Below, you will find that other stuff.

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A Lazard Capital Markets analyst has apparently had to revise a previous statement claiming that Angry Birds had become the biggest selling download title of all time on PSN. Now it’s the “most downloaded paid game through the PSN for January and February 2011”.

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And just like that, April Fools Day was upon us. It’s finally over, but the scars may never completely heal. Come, let’s fondly remember a time before it blighted our world.
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