{"id":32991,"date":"2012-02-25T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32991"},"modified":"2012-02-27T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T08:20:27","slug":"rovio-shopping-for-acquisitions-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32991-rovio-shopping-for-acquisitions-publishing","title":{"rendered":"Rovio shopping for acquisitions, publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when your quirky iPhone game makes you ONE BILLION DOLLARS? You make like Coca-Cola and buy EVERYONE.<\/p>\n<p>Rovio, creator of Angry Birds, is interested in doing a bit of shopping in the form of acquisitions, as well as possibly being a publisher for other developers. The Angry Birds craze has made the company worth an estimated $1.2 billion, although Rovio says that figure may be a little low. #humblebrags<\/p>\n<p>When you have that much money, you have to be careful not to get too carried away. We\u2019ve all made some regrettable purchases when getting an unexpected windfall.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Mikael Hed explains, &#8220;It would be very easy for us to just go shopping; to get lasting benefit is the hard part.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also discusses Rovio\u2019s desire to begin publishing, saying that the methods employed to make Angry Birds such a success could be used for other developers.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO also revealed that Rovio has a new IP in the works, a game not in any way associated with the Angry Birds franchise. This game should be available \u201cin a couple of months\u201d.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Gamasutra\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/162601\/Rovio_considering_acquisitions_publishing.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also has new not-Angry-Birds game coming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":25859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[31,355,305,1462,2193,1576],"class_list":["post-32991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-angry-birds","tag-casual-gaming","tag-iphone","tag-mikael-hed","tag-rovio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}