SEGA has successfully acquired Rovio
SEGA has announced today that their acquisition of mobile video game marker Rovio has been successful. The Finnish developer is best known for its ultra-successful Angry Birds series of games which…
jon, 
So, uh, not to sound out of the loop here, but what exactly is Sega getting here? They spent close to a billion dollars for...the Angry Birds IP?
Gordon_Freeman, 
Apparently the Angry Birds games are still popular and strong
conciselyverbose, They were good shit before they turned from buy to play to arcade style quarter dumps.
peter, 
Sounds exactly like what Sega wants
BobKerman3999, Pachinko machines
Neato, 
Mobile games and popular mobile IPs print money.
londos, Wait, are angry birds angry because they were the ones trapped inside badnicks?
jeebus, 
SEEEEEEGGGGGAAAAA!
NotTheOnlyGamer, 
I wonder what this means for Sega now. I hope it's not predicting a pivot to mobile-first.
somas, 
The arcade scene today is full of mobile IP reimagined as quarter munchers
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